Wednesday Night Ride

[Hey wait for me!]

Great ride tonight! awesome turn out Good to see old faces and new ones! good stuff, see ya next week!

[gloplg]

How about this?


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You must admit you set yourself up for that one ...

You realise Pete that I could go OFF you real quickly

[Peeteey]

You realise Pete that I could go OFF you real quickly

So long as that happens quicker than your mankini going off you!

[Peeteey]

Bloody hell we're a well documented bunch of bikers!

[Peeteey]

[Peeteey]

[Peeteey]

Last lot. Plenty more from this eve but this is all I'll make you sit through



Anyhoo, see you in a month

[EJK]

Bloody nice photos there!

[KiwiPhoenix]

As always, great photos Peeteey, thank you!

[Emlyn]

Yes, great photos Peeteey, good on you
Was a HUGE group tonight, great to see so much interest... long may this summer last.
Take care out there everyone,
Em

[gloplg]

I really don't like Summit Rd anymore, considering the condition the road is in, and after I nearly went off a cliff there last week.

OK........ I hear you.

What viable alternatives do you have?

Please remember that they must provide challanges and interest over a whole range of riding skills and ages. At this time of the year with only an hour or so of daylight and a pub or something at the other end to provide meals etc.

Please do not tell me what you don't like. Tell me what you do like and want to do.

With the state of our roads and venues we are limited.

Everyone please think about where we can go. Places like Oxford, Akaroa and Greta Valley need a longer period of daylight for safe riding. They are on the list for next month.

[Retroqueen]

What viable alternatives do you have?

ahhh now I mentioned this with one or two last night. We are definitely limited to the roads we can ride at the moment but there is no reason a little thought couldn't go into some planning for alternatives.
I myself cringe at the summit road but I go because it reminds me that my bike will bite me if I make a mistake and it wakes me up to that fact.
Anyway a couple of suggestions that may be of use.
There are pubs that we haven't gone to and perhaps could take a look at and one of them is the Tai Tap.
1) Leave BK and ride up and over dyers pass, heading to the Wheatsheaf corner. Re group in the shingle patch on the right just after turning at that corner. Head up over Gebbies pass on to the blue duck. Turn right and head into Tai Tap. take first right at the wool spinners and head around to the Tai Tap pub.

2) change direction and head out through town with a re group just past the vets in Halswell and then up over Gebbies and around to the Governors Bay pub. Only problem with that pub is the lack of parking for bikes and if your unsure of shingle their secondary car park can be a nightmare but they appear to be open and we need to support businesses hit by the quake. Alternatively continue on around the bays to Lyttleton and find a pub in Lyttleton that can meet our requirements and go there. There is a heap of parking near the Wunderbar but not sure if they do food.

Oh and there is off course Little River and that can be got at from quite a few angles.

If I can think of any others I'll post them up.......

[phoenixgtr]

...and of course, just because Godley House is gone it doesnt mean we can't head into Diamond Harbour and back out to the Wheatsheaf (not that I was impressed with them last night).

...or just because Duvauchelles pub is gone it doesn't mean we can't head over there and back to the Little River pub (when there's a bit more light).

The pubs may be gone, but the roads are (mostly) still there to ride (minus Lyttleton side of Evans Pass and Old Tai Tap rd for the time being)

[SMOKEU]

OK........ I hear you.

What viable alternatives do you have?

Please remember that they must provide challanges and interest over a whole range of riding skills and ages. At this time of the year with only an hour or so of daylight and a pub or something at the other end to provide meals etc.

Please do not tell me what you don't like. Tell me what you do like and want to do.

With the state of our roads and venues we are limited.

Everyone please think about where we can go. Places like Oxford, Akaroa and Greta Valley need a longer period of daylight for safe riding. They are on the list for next month.

I was going to say Akaroa. At least the road over the hills there is in quite a good condition, with very few areas of gravel and few smooth spots over the roads. People also pour diesel on Summit road to do skids, which doesn't appear to be the case heading towards Akaroa.

[Transalper]

I enjoyed the run last night, I like the roads like this.
The size of the group is pretty impressive now days especially when viewed from a wee way down the line.

The only thing that pissed me off was a rookie move from someone sneaking up through my blind spot to appear on my left in my lane, in my escape zone.
This happened between Sumner and Red Cliffs.
Thought we'd fixed those problems, hadn't seen it happen in this group since the first year of WNRs.

It's a stupid move, just don't do it !

If you had moved behind me where I could see you I would have noted your impatience and I'd have moved over to the left and dropped back from the slow car in front then waved you past on the correct side with no ill feeling as a result.
As it was I braked to drop behind you to get out of the lane sharing situation but you never got to pass the car anyway before it turned off on to another street to the right.

Pic: Sumner regroup, but not everyone.