Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

**NordieBoy** · 26th August 2012, 20:31

Originally Posted by Padmei

I had a go up hurricane hill. The A line is pretty slippery & the B line has a very deep rut past the tree trunk so turned back & went on the gravel.

The good thing there was, we went down, not up

**NordieBoy** · 27th August 2012, 20:02

The rescue helicopter was out tonight off Halifax St East, up the hill.
Some BIG searchlights, 4-5 torches on the ground and someone got winched up...

**Padmei** · 28th August 2012, 07:36

Woman walker in her 40s broke her leg. When will these people realise the danger of exercising

**NordieBoy** · 28th August 2012, 07:59

Originally Posted by Padmei

Woman walker in her 40s broke her leg. When will these people realise the danger of exercising

Must have been on a section of those slippery wooden stairways.

**NordieBoy** · 28th August 2012, 08:26

Some pics from the Enduro...

**madmartin** · 28th August 2012, 08:28

nice work, does look a tad damp

**NordieBoy** · 28th August 2012, 12:47

Originally Posted by madmartin

nice work, does look a tad damp

In the first 4 photos, it was pissing down.

The winds were so strong up at the base of Everest that the tape and signs were blowing away.

Really foggy too.

**pete-blen** · 28th August 2012, 14:37

Great pics of a real enduro....
I remember years ago Bob Cooke had the Suzuki shop in Mot
had a uncanny nake of picking the worst day of the year for the
2nd round of the Nelson Enduro champs..year after bloody year...
Always somewhere up the Mot valley...

**Ally67** · 28th August 2012, 17:13

Originally Posted by pete-blen

Great pics of a real enduro....
I remember years ago Bob Cooke had the Suzuki shop in Mot
had a uncanny nake of picking the worst day of the year for the
2nd round of the Nelson Enduro champs..year after bloody year...
Always somewhere up the Mot valley...

that's going back abit my step farther used to race in those and he's in his 70's now

You're showing your age.

**NordieBoy** · 28th August 2012, 19:28

Originally Posted by Mrs jatz

that's going back abit my step farther used to race in those and he's in his 70's now

You're showing your age.

Bob is in his mid 100's...

**pete-blen** · 28th August 2012, 19:33

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Bob is in his mid 100's...

LOL...........
He would have to be at least 90 if hes still kicking...

**Padmei** · 28th August 2012, 19:36

Hello. I am communicating with you all on a new piece of technology.
It is called an iPad.
Notice how the I is small at the beginning of the name iPad. Pretty nifty idea.
I'm expecting most of you people don't know what an iPad is- well imagine a blank pad like a writing pad however you don't write on it with a pen but a keyboard is part of the screen.

Yes really! I'm stabbing my digit onto images of letters and the corresponding words are presented on the screen.

Apparently these have only been out for a few weeks and are regarded by the tech savvy such as myself to be the best technological breakthrough since the intertrap was invented late last year.

I believe one can also use them to design windscreens with a app (short for application- yes cool abb isn't it) called wind tunnel.

There is also a game where you can actually catapault willing little brightly colored birds into structures of timber, glass, rocks and all sorts . Very entertaining.

Ok toddles!