Northern Gravel Adventure Riding Club

**suzieq** · 27th April 2012, 08:27

Our work is now underway for our upcoming RiverHead Gravel Road Explore Ride that we will be hosting in June.

We will look to also post up a back up date if weather is adverse. This ride will be by pre registration - details posted up on our web site next week. This will help with our catering as a bbq lunch is part of your entry to this ride and we wish to thank our local property owner for this. A cancellation policy will also be in place and we will look to move our ride to the following weekend due to inclement weather. RiverHead Forest is a clay based forest and we look to ensure our rides are suitable at all times for big bikes to be riding over. Also there are very many other users of foestry i.e. many horse riders and pedestrians/mountain bikes all of whom we will also come across. More details coming soon. This will not be a trail ride as our ride must be a Big Bike Friendly Ride. We cannot operate this ride as any form of trail ride - all areas that are used for trail riding are to be taped off etc to ensure safety of many other users of forestry. Our ride we will explore the heart of the RiverHead forest and take in the many gravel roads the forest has to offer us. Often these will lead out to the old logging skid sites and views from attop of these hills will be great and will also lead us out to the many locked gates of the many entrances in and out of RiverHead Forest. For those wishing to just take in the atmosphere and enjoy a guided RiverHead gravel road ride (Group 1) - standard dual purpose tyres will be fine as you will only be travelling over standard gravel roads. For our second group of riders, those with above average skills and wishing for that little bit more over our ride, we will provide those riders with several of the OLDER logging routes that are no longer used. You will need to have above average riding skills to do this and will also need a knobbly tyre on both the front and rear of your bike. If you wish to give one of these extra sections a trial please do this at your discretion. All attending this ride will sign our registration form on arrival also and this ride will be by pre-registration also. We will also look to keep speeds down in this forest due to the very many other users that utilise the forestry and we need to be considerate when we come across these people also.

Further details coming next week

S Q

**suzieq** · 28th April 2012, 08:46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I85oq...ature=youtu.be

Bike Build - BMW G650GS Sertao

**suzieq** · 30th April 2012, 07:02

http://www.northerngraveladventureri...ture-ride.html

Leaving 9am Mobil Service Station bottom end Napier/Taupo highway (Lake Front Terrace)

Full dayz riding Lunch at Whakamaru and more gravel roads on the opposite side of Pureora will be explored

S Q

**suzieq** · 1st May 2012, 18:55

http://www.northerngraveladventureri...-adv-ride.html

**Gremlin** · 1st May 2012, 19:00

Are we able to go around if our bikes are too big to go through?

**suzieq** · 1st May 2012, 19:59

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Are we able to go around if our bikes are too big to go through?

Hey - Remind Jessica to STAY LEAN two weeks prior to - She wants to go tunnelling also and doesn't wnt to be left out - Good Keen Kiwi Girl and allll

ps seriously a bridge exit just outside of the tunnel - poor Jessica

**suzieq** · 2nd May 2012, 11:32

No wait, there's one more...............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvocp...1&feature=plcp

**Gr82briding** · 6th May 2012, 06:52

Originally Posted by suzieq

http://www.northerngraveladventureri...ture-ride.html

Leaving 9am Mobil Service Station bottom end Napier/Taupo highway (Lake Front Terrace)

Full dayz riding Lunch at Whakamaru and more gravel roads on the opposite side of Pureora will be explored

S Q

Had as great days ride! 640ks all up and I got home at 7.30pm (what time did you get home Gremlin?). Of course I would have got home at least an hour earlier if Suzieq and Co. didn't go missing in action but that's a story for another day.

Thanks Suzieq and Jim for another memorable ride.

It's Gr82briding

**Gremlin** · 6th May 2012, 15:27

Yep, was a great time. About 875km all up for me I think. Warmer going home on Saturday arvo than shooting down on Friday night. Only left Auckland at 2130, got into Taupo at 0030, having seen the gauge drop to 0.5 degrees.... so not quite reaching 0

Got home at 2000, after you guys carried on we talked shit and slacked around, getting Devil's tyre pumped up (for all his disparaging remarks about carrying so much shit it was interesting to see how quickly he asked for the compressor), then a stop in Rotorua to fill for me (hadn't filled since Matamata the previous evening) and we finally left Rotorua around 1730 I think, and went all the way through without another stop.

I've been through Pureora 2-3 times already... still so many tracks that need tracking, even roads as well...

**suzieq** · 9th May 2012, 15:03

http://www.northerngraveladventureri...-may-2012.html

It was great to collect new faces roadside on our journey out to the forestry park - we will be back - we have many roads still to be explored and new areas still to be tapped into

Excellent ride on the sat - for some of us ADDITIONAL roadside explores were had??? Sunday proved another great explore for the lads - playtime out amongst the trails and herding of wild pigs on the tracks in front of the bikes also

**suzieq** · 10th May 2012, 07:32

http://www.northerngraveladventureri...kau-caves.html

**Crisis management** · 10th May 2012, 08:10

I might be heading that way on saturday as well Sue (Raglan for the day), if so, I'll drop in at your start point and say hello! As usual this is all dependant on work & weather...... (preparing my excuses)

**suzieq** · 10th May 2012, 09:08

Originally Posted by Crisis management

I might be heading that way on saturday as well Sue (Raglan for the day), if so, I'll drop in at your start point and say hello! As usual this is all dependant on work & weather...... (preparing my excuses)

All good Catch up Bombay Weather looking great for this weekend