Takarau Top Ridge Trail Ride at Ohariu Valley, Wellington (13 March 2011)

[motor_mayhem]

Awesome ride, awesome views and awesome that it was so close to home. Please do more like it

Now I have to carve up my helmet cam footage and make a highlights package.

[mazz1972]

Awesome ride, awesome views and awesome that it was so close to home. Please do more like it

Now I have to carve up my helmet cam footage and make a highlights package.

Any ideas for a venue? Land around Welly available for a trail ride is rare as hen's teeth unfortunately.

Glad you enjoyed it

[mazz1972]

Any more feedback from anyone else who went would be appreciated!

[crfchick]

I agree! Was fabulous having a decent trail ride so close to home, great turn out too, and the track was fun although I didnt like that 2 way system at the start but I guess there wasnt much avoiding it!

Awesome ride, awesome views and awesome that it was so close to home. Please do more like it

Now I have to carve up my helmet cam footage and make a highlights package.

[pete.ktm]

ha haaa, sure was

Still got the mad skillz, lol

You roll down the bank or go and have a 'talk' with the guy that dumped you? the bike seemed to be on the ground with no kezza to pick it up for a while.

Only things about the ride i can suggest would be to have an international reference for what an 'A' section is. We had a guy who is just getting back into riding and the A sections put him off so we didn't do them the first couple of laps. Did them when he had had enough and they were great, and i'm no 'A' rider. Although we didn't push our luck and do the triple A loop - anyone do that? And i know it's really not possible to have a standard 'A' loop, maybe just a better description at the briefing of what they are, like "the first A loop has a steep rocky climb, the 2nd is a big downhill etc etc".

The two way markings were good when we took off and the instructions were still fresh in our minds but it maybe wasn't so clear when coming home stuffed after riding for 2 hours and a few cones had been knocked over, maybe a big orange paint job down the middle of the road to remind us.

Any idea how many riders there were?

It was good to finally see the wind turbines, shame we couldn't get closer or go down to the beach but i guess we're pretty lucky to be still able to ride 20 minutes from my house (well occasionally anyway).

[kezzafish]

ahhh, sounds like someone else's crash now? was I down the side of a downhill right hander on the grass?

Triple A was a mother of a hill climb, twas awesome. The ride was sweet. The A sections really make these rides worth it for me as the dusty farm tracks get a bit boring in my opinion unless you're going flat out but the consequences were a bit tooo serious to go flat out for me. Awesome views. Thanks for putting these rides on.

[pete.ktm]

ahhh, sounds like someone else's crash now? was I down the side of a downhill right hander on the grass?

this you? surely no one else would have dropped it so soon, lol.

[kezzafish]

ha haaaa, great... photographic evidence. Yeah that's my bike but i seem to have abscondered? Must have been in a daze. That was the first of two. The second one was even funnier.

[Pornstar]

And what else kezza? hmmm?

[rossrc]

ha haaaa, great... photographic evidence. Yeah that's my bike but i seem to have abscondered? Must have been in a daze. That was the first of two. The second one was even funnier.

That was me trying to hide your shame... either that or I was trying to run you over... can't recall

[rossrc]

Kezza, Maybe your bike has finally figured out that ginger on ginger is just wrong and was trying to spit you off?

[kezzafish]

yeah it'll be something like that ross. All i know is there's no way I was at fault lol

[Pornstar]

That long downhill through 3 paddocks with all the bumpys was sa weet. but the bit along side the coast with the 200m vertical drop had me impressed, grave results if ya muppeted it up.

[Pornstar]

Woo Hoo, Cheers Pete, your friendly nieghborhood pornstar made into one of your pics, and its got an upright Kezza in it too. Rare.

[mazz1972]

Only things about the ride i can suggest would be to have an international reference for what an 'A' section is. We had a guy who is just getting back into riding and the A sections put him off so we didn't do them the first couple of laps. Did them when he had had enough and they were great, and i'm no 'A' rider. Although we didn't push our luck and do the triple A loop - anyone do that? And i know it's really not possible to have a standard 'A' loop, maybe just a better description at the briefing of what they are, like "the first A loop has a steep rocky climb, the 2nd is a big downhill etc etc".

The two way markings were good when we took off and the instructions were still fresh in our minds but it maybe wasn't so clear when coming home stuffed after riding for 2 hours and a few cones had been knocked over, maybe a big orange paint job down the middle of the road to remind us.

Any idea how many riders there were?

It was good to finally see the wind turbines, shame we couldn't get closer or go down to the beach but i guess we're pretty lucky to be still able to ride 20 minutes from my house (well occasionally anyway).

We would prefer not to have the 2-way sections at all but without them there wouldn't have been a way to work the ride.

Just over 500 riders.

Opinions differ so much with grading A sections. We still get the odd person telling us the main (B) sections are too hard! Can't please everyone.