Christchurch Adventure ride (Sunday 1 Aug)

**Transalper** · 2nd August 2010, 08:51

Originally Posted by helenoftroy

My boy Sam(Casualty)should have been there today......dont ask!!

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I do wonder what happened, spoke to him on Saturday at Little River and he said he was going then. I was guessing either he didn't get up in time or the bike wouldn't start.

Originally Posted by cooneyr

Sounds like a good one. Seems you didn't have to cross the river this time TA?

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No big rivers this time, got home with dry feet.

**helenoftroy** · 3rd August 2010, 00:44

Originally Posted by Buddha#81

geez, with a cut lunch too.....Sam either got pissed or scored? I used the day to put a Pro Circuit muffler on the XR and get bot bike ready for next Saturday......Top day though.

Mum is not going to comment!!!

Originally Posted by Transalper

I do wonder what happened, spoke to him on Saturday at Little River and he said he was going then. I was guessing either he didn't get up in time or the bike wouldn't start.

He was keen as a very keen thing!
All organized,extra fuel loaded etc he even slept at home & not his flat
....didnt sleep & wasnt up for anything in the morning

Sam has got the starting sorted,1st or 2nd kick

One more week and I will be riding again

This weekend is a biggie for the race guys with racing at Ruapuna Saturday & Sunday.Budda & MotoRad-ical will be racing the XR & Husky in Motards

Budda,MotoRad,joskies & Casualty(Sam) etc will all be racing the mighty FXRs in Buckets

**Transalper** · 3rd August 2010, 08:39

Now now, I've done a heap of rides on only a couple of hours sleep. That was Peeteeys excuse too.
First Dusty Butt ride was probably the worst.
Got to Nelson about 8pm, by the time I sorted my tea, camera, bike and a few other things ready for the morning, I went to bed about 1am. Still watching the clock too excited to sleep at 3am, had to get up for breakfast at 4:50am and be at the start for the 5:30am kick off.
Once on the move I was good for most the day. It did catch up with me later though, but I'd done 500 or so dusty km by then.
Doesn't happen quite so often before big rides now.

**cynna** · 3rd August 2010, 11:39

Originally Posted by helenoftroy

Sam has got the starting sorted,1st or 2nd kick

One more week and I will be riding again

he can give me lessons then ....

bet you will be glad to get riding again. how long before you are racing again

**mattsdakar** · 3rd August 2010, 15:15

Well what a huge day.
Good to see a few new faces. It's a pity we got separated from TA so early. Sorry about losing you TA, we didn't intiationally do it. After the first hill climb we stopped for about 10minutes to drag Blairs bike back up on to the track, Blair told us that Crim had turned back so when you hadn't arrived we assumed you had gone back with Crim.
Lesson of the day for Crim is don't turn up to an Adventure ride on a rain sodden farm with road tyres, you live and lean eh!
Anyway after we got thru Macdonald Downs we had a nice pub lunch at Waikari then headed up to Lake Sumner. The road up there was fantastic with light drizzle to dampen the dust down. We made it right up to basically the swing bridge before giving it death on the way back. Must say I was impressed with Josh on his trusty XT, he can certainly hold his own and think the KTM boys were quite impressed.

We went back home thru Mac Downs but didn't go out thru Oxford as it was already getting dark. All in all a great day out with no crashes or mechanical issues and awesome roads/scenery.
Very happy with my new XR, it never missed a beat and the extra power was fun.

**joshkies** · 3rd August 2010, 18:06

why thanks matt, KTM boys and others for a great ride. yer the XT punts along alll right got a few things to change now and look forward to the next ride.