Minginui - Matawai - Motu Midwinter Madness NZ 2013

[Rosie]

YES!!!!


Please don't let Al have a copy, he's a danger to humanity when entrusted with that sort of knowledge.

Al got lost before he'd even started navigating with the GPS track

[R650R]

Thanks Clint & Rosie great weekend got home at 8pm tonight, 962kms home via the cape DR broke down in Tolaga Bay with a real bad miss-fire and back fires which scared a few horses !! 257kms on a tow truck home after checking many things and swapping parts from Grants DR thanks Grant. Suspect the coil has failed but nothing in Gisborne. Glad to have AA plus but it only covers $ 800 for towage and the truck company wanted $ 950 Tolaga to Havelock North which i thought was a bit steep.

Ouch... that is a long way from anywhere though and your paying for the towies time both ways. Another alternative would be to get it to freight company like weatheralls and squeeze it in somewhere.

[Night Falcon]

Ouch... that is a long way from anywhere though and your paying for the towies time both ways. Another alternative would be to get it to freight company like weatheralls and squeeze it in somewhere.

I'd have taken the day off work and come an got him and the bike with a trailer for $899.95 if I'd known- a win win for everyone

[pomgolian]

I'd have taken the day off work and come an got him and the bike with a trailer for $899.95 if I'd known- a win win for everyone

I guess by the time he drove from Gisborne to Tolaga Bay then back to Gisborne then to Havelock then back to Gisborne it soon adds up, point was i didnt know there was a limit on the cover to get you home but i do now. I asked how far my cover would get me which was BP Bay view so thats where he dropped me off, cranked up the DR and limped home popping and banging but better than it was.

Great weekend all in all ride around the cape and the Motu was stunning above the low cloud, how was the ride home Marty hear you had some adventures as well ??

[Night Falcon]

I guess by the time he drove from Gisborne to Tolaga Bay then back to Gisborne then to Havelock then back to Gisborne it soon adds up, point was i didnt know there was a limit on the cover to get you home but i do now. I asked how far my cover would get me which was BP Bay view so thats where he dropped me off, cranked up the DR and limped home popping and banging but better than it was.

Great weekend all in all ride around the cape and the Motu was stunning above the low cloud, how was the ride home Marty hear you had some adventures as well ??

had a reasonably sedate ride home - nice and slow, taking in the scenery just ambling along - no hurry - you know, enjoying the zen of motorcycling for no particular reason

[DR Girl]

I'll start the ball rolling with a wee Maths equation . . . . I hear 50% of one room on Saturday hit the tarmac on that icy right hand corner, we know that x2 bikes were KTM 690's & not all were from that room. The ice showed various lengths of skid & handle bar? scrapes . . . . . . so . . . . . how many bikes didn't make that corner or did JUST ???? How are your bikes & bodies?

[Crisis management]

I know of a Vee Strom that went ice gliding.... no body parts were damaged in that case!




Personally I didn't even notice the ice, it didn't feel any different to the rest of the stuff I was sliding around on, maybe I'm just insensitive?

[Eddieb]

I'll start the ball rolling with a wee Maths equation . . . . I hear 50% of one room on Saturday hit the tarmac on that icy right hand corner, we know that x2 bikes were KTM 690's & not all were from that room. The ice showed various lengths of skid & handle bar? scrapes . . . . . . so . . . . . how many bikes didn't make that corner or did JUST ???? How are your bikes & bodies?

I had heard that 2 out of 3 bikes that came off there were from the Hawkes Bay, one we know was a 690, rumour on the day has it the other was a blue DR from the Bay.

Personally I didn't even notice the ice, it didn't feel any different to the rest of the stuff I was sliding around on, maybe I'm just insensitive?

I didn't see/feel it either, blissful ignorance.

[Night Falcon]

I had heard that 2 out of 3 bikes that came off there were from the Hawkes Bay, one we know was a 690, rumour on the day has it the other was a blue DR from the Bay.



I didn't see/feel it either, blissful ignorance.

ok that makes

2x 690's
1x DR
1x DL

I did hear whispers of a big red KLR tipping over sometime during the day and I know a Wee R 2hundy that got stuck on the challenge section

[paturoa]

What ice?

My total kms was 1023, so all that is needed is for all of you to travel to dorkland on Sunday to make the 1000 ks.

[DR Girl]

ok that makes

2x 690's
1x DR
1x DL

I did hear whispers of a big red KLR tipping over sometime during the day and I know a Wee R 2hundy that got stuck on the challenge section

Yes lol the 2hundy couldn't power out of that clay hole without the help of two helpers. Thanks guys.

[DR Girl]

I didn't see/feel it either, blissful ignorance.

Hi Eddie, Guessing maybe those who took a straighter line into the bridge missed the worst of it but when Mark S, Rosie, Clint & I were assisting a fallen soldier it was quite bad. At 11.30 am too!

[gsig]

I have to confess to being a little dissapointed that it never occured to anyone up at the pointy end of the ride who did notice the ice (and I understand that many didn't notice) to stop and warn those behind.

A little common courtesy could have stopped up to 3 riders kissing the tarmac.

Personally I really appreciate Marty doing such a stellar job warning me of what was ahead.

Oh and thanks Clint and Rosy for a great day

Mark S

[tri boy]

Less jibber jabber.
More pics you bastids.

[paturoa]

Less jibber jabber.
More pics you bastids.

A couple at the stop before the challenge section.