Manawatu weekend rides

[NZsarge]

Lucky you! Looks like I'm working the 24th now and probably till 5.00pm.

Bugger! Hopefully Cowboyz will get this jaunt in the weekend sorted and we'll have weather worth riding in..

[SuperSonic]

Need to get a decent manawatu day ride up and organised via V Hill as Bren hasnt done it yet.

Quick run next weekend maybe?

Next weekend is the first of the tri series racing starting at Manfeild, on sat 19. I plan to go to this for half-ish day then off to Taupo for Suzuki track day.

Looks like my weekend planner is full so will miss tthis one. Maybe NEXT YEAR

[SuperSonic]

cuba. at high noon.. for anyone who too lazy to work. I bored.

Oh man if I had seen this post could have meet you at 11.30 for a coffee. Will look tomorrow to see if you are still bored!

[road king]

Oh man if I had seen this post could have meet you at 11.30 for a coffee. Will look tomorrow to see if you are still bored!

if still bored after coffee tomorow, come for a ride

[sarahtvet]

Awesome ride on RTIII today

Owe Horse a huge hot chocolate or more likely a large bottle of whisky :

Met Patriots in town and we headed to Woodville to meet a few more riders including some of the Ulyssess group from Masterton. All rode to Masterton for the Suzuki/Ulyssess Christmas charity run. Food for the womens refuge this year and an orange scooter in the raffle :

Fun ride and whilst the 'light drizzle' at Mount Bruce was a little heavier than expected the screen protected my 'cruiser gear' (Hornees n Triumph jacket) nicely.

After the social side Lovey n I decided to take the scenic route home. At last I have had a good run over the takkas with little traffic and no breakdowns.

RTIII handled like a total dream, never thought I would really have such fun riding a cruiser. Light, responsive and awesome power. Anybody considering a cruiser I would recommend you try one of these (I have already asked Kerry to work out how to swap engine into a modification of the blue beast once I win lotto )

I only scraped it on the 2nd corner on K valley and then behaved myself as it isn't mine

Not the of my life but in the contest when I turn into an old fat :buggered:

I digress, great ride, company and cause. Apparently runs every year so put it in you diaries for 2010, told Suzuki to advertise more too.

Considering the forecast it has been a good day to , always is if wearing the right gear though.Hope all had fun out there and that Bikeoi went well.

Post ride I ran into a few Cold Duck buddies in George Street and made it home just before the rain

Another awesome Manawatu summer day

Beast is ready and roaring to go I hear

If you are going to Fleetwood Mac tomorrow I will be trying out the new Pink KB shirt so come say hi

[Bren]

I took a good ride up to PN today and hung round the square a bit...not a bad place for the Carols aye...heaps of activity going on, and a lot of skimpily clad kids about...I am sure the teenagers are looking younger and younger...Cracker of a day up there....some nice coffee about too...

Came home this evening through a heavy shower just out of Shannon and also heaps of wind...thought I was gonna lose it for a second

[chanceyy]

I took a good ride up to PN today and hung round the square a bit...not a bad place for the Carols aye...heaps of activity going on, and a lot of skimpily clad kids about...I am sure the teenagers are looking younger and younger...Cracker of a day up there....some nice coffee about too...

Came home this evening through a heavy shower just out of Shannon and also heaps of wind...thought I was gonna lose it for a second

what is with that?? you seem to be hitting rain on a regular basis, hmm mind you it must have been a late run .. did not start raining til after 6pm when I was heading out for the work do

ahh and that explains the stage set up this morn

catch up soon babe

[sarahtvet]

I took a good ride up to PN today and hung round the square a bit...not a bad place for the Carols aye...heaps of activity going on, and a lot of skimpily clad kids about...I am sure the teenagers are looking younger and younger...Cracker of a day up there....some nice coffee about too...

Came home this evening through a heavy shower just out of Shannon and also heaps of wind...thought I was gonna lose it for a second

Planned to screech along to the carols myself but didn't quite make it.

If you were wearing a mac and handing out toffees you would have been in trouble

I was so chuffed with the ride on the RTIII yesterday and then to get home and find out the Daytona was ready, grinning like a Cheshire Cat.

Great ride today too
Horse pillioned me on the RTIII and CD Rich was the outrider so a triumph run

Great weather and an easy run to Opunake in a bit of a breeze. I just told Rich to ride faster , it works for me and if nothing else makes you smile. It is the slow stuff in high winds that worries me.Especially since the no-speed drop in Auckland in a gale.

The Beast was looking pristine(as always when he gets released from hospital). New rim on the front and the back one had not a scratch to be seen : Still had white ribbons intact tooo

Bizzare, it has grown taller and got lighter and slimmer in the few weeks it has been away

Maybe it is just the change from riding the RTIII the last few days but it was really weird for a minute. Never like putting on an old slipper, more like slipping into a comfy racing boot just this time it was a high heeled version..

Quick refreshments and we headed in seperate directions as I had a concert to catch

Opunake to NP wasn't far enough to even warm the bike up so I was almost disappointed to find the stadium. Roads werer dry and pretty empty as the cops had kindly sent everybody else via Stratford.

Fleetwood Mac were on really good form, well worth the trip

Caught up with a few more Cold Duckies and got lots of compliments on the new PINK KB shirt from bikers and general pissed concert goers.

Perhaps we should have gone for Pink ACC shirts, no that would have been a challenge, getting rufty tufty biker guys to wear pink

Met some cool people on the way out as a result of the Blue Beast, one girls dad has a daytona in Australia (see some Aussies have good taste ) and Mike has done 45km on his new Bandit since he picked it up today. He was so taken with the Beast that he gave me his card without telling me his name. Hopefully the person I emailed and sent KB way does own a bike and it wasn't some random card he had in his wallet .

Anyway hopefully a new rider in Hamilton who has a new Bandit. He aspires to a Triumph one day apparently so that is a positive sign.

Once I escpaed the throngs departing NP the roads opened up enough for some lane splitting until Hawera and then I could leave the masses behind and let the bike do what it does best (no not breakdown, that was before the 1050 alternator) and get me down the road in style and sharpish. Didn't go mad after a long fun day and with damp roads and a new tyre. Still home and tucked up by 230am so all good.

Bonus of time off is all the rides you can fit in for sure

[NZsarge]

Wioeka Gorge.... Job done and it was good, well worth the effort I reckon, huge thanks to 2wheeled Gasman and his better half for putting me up 3 nights in total, most excellent hospitality. Great to have Hastings as a base to launch from, made the ride easier. Next Forgotten World Hiway...

[cowboyz]

Wioeka Gorge.... Job done and it was good, well worth the effort I reckon, huge thanks to 2wheeled Gasman and his better half for putting me up 3 nights in total, most excellent hospitality. Great to have Hastings as a base to launch from, made the ride easier. Next Forgotten World Hiway...

good on ya.

you better not be leaving me behind for the next one!

[86GSXR]

Nice Sarge! I remember the Gizzy trip through there, absolutely mindblowing!!!

[SuperSonic]

Ok, look ask this question on FNR and got a not sure from everybody.

So who is going over to the boxing day races this year? Is their a planned ride?

[Elysium]

Ok, look ask this question on FNR and got a not sure from everybody.

So who is going over to the boxing day races this year? Is their a planned ride?

I'm going. Already got my ticket but yeah would be good to go as a group.

[SuperSonic]

I'm going. Already got my ticket but yeah would be good to go as a group.

I just found out that you can buy them on line. But it's closed off now. Oh well will just have to pay full price. Shell we make a plan for the day then?

[Elysium]

I just found out that you can buy them on line. But it's closed off now. Oh well will just have to pay full price. Shell we make a plan for the day then?

Yeah closed on the 17th and I couldn't buy online because our net was down for about two weeks.

Shell we make a plan for the day then?

Sounds good.