Northern Gravel Adventure Riding Club

[suzieq]

Just to hand New meet up time will now be 9:30 on the Saturday BP Bombay

We will leave 10am


Time has been changed to accommodate riders coming in from Up North


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[suzieq]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPNd...layer_embedded

The boys explore some of the many side trails that the forestry has on offer and then more..........



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[alane]

Just to hand New meet up time will now be 9:30 on the Saturday BP Bombay

We will leave 10am


Time has been changed to accommodate riders coming in from Up North


S Q

JAFFA,s & MIXED ASSORTMENT heading west (supriseingly) over Purangi saddle,Tarata road ,around 12.45pm Sun. 3rd June.





OH!! The -- PAIN -- of haveing to just watch.

[suzieq]

Taranaki Tunnels and More............ The Jaffas and a good cross selection of Mixed Allsorts converge on the NAKI - some of what it looked like - OOOH STOP ME PLEASE - We will be back - Plans over Summer to further our adventures through The Old Whanga Road and and travel OVER the Bridge To Somewhere which will take us to visit the onsite station. Looking forwards to and all will once again be welcome!!!! Did I also mention meeting another gentleman who asked me HAD I VISITED THIS PAPER ROAD??? and HAD I VISITED THAT PAPER ROAD??? Amazing WHO you meet roadside???? I met a very interesting local from New Plymouth who was out exploring and a conversation ROADSIDE we had................ SUMMER and we will be back!!!


The highlight of my ride this weekend would have to be travelling out to visit The Bridge To Somewhere - Excellent ride just to get out to this bridge.




Heading out on the Monday morning just the right time for milking enroute.




The TWO G650GS's decided to take a slight detour hmmm I wonder Where That Road Will Take US??? Let's find out - so as we ventured down this road UP The road we meet out friend KTM - amazing who you meet Roadside??? All Parked Up A short conversation before the TWO Intrepid explorers headed off again to take in some more.


Out There Doing It and Loving It


SPECIAL MENTION HERE - A big welcome to our NEW ADV rider amongst us Bernard and an EXTRA SPECIAL WELCOME to his son
Vincent from SYDNEY - Did I mention Vincent was an avid mountain biker/dirt bike rider from Across The Ditch - He is ONE VERY MEAN gravel rider out amongst us - awsome to have him along for our ride


Father and Son Team Bernard and Vincent - Welcome to us and welcome back to N.Z. Vincent even if just for a short time before he heads off for USA


Great that Team KTM could join us and say hi for our ride also - Eleanor and Karl - WElcome and thanks for coming along - was good to see some of our ORANGE machines out amongst it also




Parked Up at one of the VERY many tunnel stops - great photo opportunities for everyone


The start of our journey we completed MOST of the many gravel roads that led out to Kawhia for our lunch break. The grader had been over these roads through Limestone Downs and had gone an excellent job of it - a tough ride it was, nice start to the mng, km's of freshly graded gravel roads.

More pics coming soon and will be uploaded to our website shortly along with vid cam footage.


Excellent weekend and many thanks to all who came to participate in also - all of you made our weekend what it was - a great one.
The sealed portions of our ride made for very tough going for the many of us who arrived with knobbly tyres. The incoming rain we received on the SAT night whilst we were at AWAKINO made for some hairy moments for many of us. So a slower than normal ride was had on our journey out to visit the many tunnels. Up and over the many saddles and passes also some interesting moments again.

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[Dingledoo]

Good to catch up with the Auckland riders on Sunday. Thanks Sue for organising.

When we parted company after morning tea at the pub we went on to the Bridge to Somewhere via the Old Whangamomona Road.

A fabulous track with a couple of tunnels and a bridge - oh and some mud holes.

Great fun on our smaller bikes, but would have been a bit of an ask on the big bikes.

Looking forward to doing it again in the summer - at the pub on the way back we spoke to some trail riders who did a loop back from the old whanga road via Aotuhia station and Putikituna Road - must do that next time.

[suzieq]

Hi

Pencil it in for summer - We Will Be There

We had our Taranaki people check it out before we did this weekend ride and for a lot of our big bikes, tooo much pushing involved


But we re all chomping to do it


And we will continue on further with The Aotuhia Station


More come summer looking forwards to it

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[suzieq]

http://www.northerngraveladventureri...ighlights.html

Pics being uploaded constantly

Vid cam footage processing about to begin sometime this week


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[suzieq]

JAFFA,s & MIXED ASSORTMENT heading west (supriseingly) over Purangi saddle,Tarata road ,around 12.45pm Sun. 3rd June.





OH!! The -- PAIN -- of haveing to just watch.

We have plans to BE BACK over summer - welcome to come join in

S Q

[suzieq]

Part One - Where Did This Ride All Begin????

A big thanks to Dave and Henry for x's 2 with the T T T


http://gravellhopper-ridingthelooses...where-did.html


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[nadroj]

Did you not have a wide enough angle lense to get Henry in the pics?

It was good to see you all at Whanga even if it was a snack n go.

[suzieq]

Good to catch up with the Auckland riders on Sunday. Thanks Sue for organising.

When we parted company after morning tea at the pub we went on to the Bridge to Somewhere via the Old Whangamomona Road.

A fabulous track with a couple of tunnels and a bridge - oh and some mud holes.

Great fun on our smaller bikes, but would have been a bit of an ask on the big bikes.

Looking forward to doing it again in the summer - at the pub on the way back we spoke to some trail riders who did a loop back from the old whanga road via Aotuhia station and Putikituna Road - must do that next time.

Your pics have left husband JIM chomping to get into it >>>>>>>>>>>> definately back here again excellent

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[suzieq]

Did you not have a wide enough angle lense to get Henry in the pics?

It was good to see you all at Whanga even if it was a snack n go.

Great and we look forwards to catching up with you again shortly - sorry we did not get too much time to chat

We Will Be Back!!!


I hope you can join in with us next time - even if only for a brief spell


S Q

[suzieq]

SAT 16th June - Join us for a guided RiverHead Forest Explore Ride
For those that enter you will be all emailed the night before with last minute details
If rained out you will be notified and the ride will commence and is booked to recommence the following Saturday

For those ADV riders amongst us there will be additional loops - you must come shod with complete set knobbly tyres if looking to ride these ADVANCED loops


This ride is suitable for novice riders to advanced riders - this will not be a fast ride as we must look to comply and to watch for other forestry users here


Your entry fee covers forestry access and also bbq luncheon

http://www.northerngraveladventureri...-16062012.html

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[suzieq]

Looking to attend our upcoming RiverHead Forest Explore Ride - We have plenty of trailer parking space available at our home which is situated not far from the forest itself

Contact and all welcome, any queries re smaller cc bikes and fuel contact jimdenham@hotmail.co.nz



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http://www.northerngraveladventureri...-16062012.html

[suzieq]

DAY 1 - Whenuapai/Bombay/Te Uku/Kawhia/Marakopa/Waikowhai Tunnel - destination AWAKINO (magic)

http://gravellhopper-ridingthelooses...-1-of-our.html



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