Laxed out rides

**caseye** · 13th March 2014, 20:01

Originally Posted by Voltaire

I did a laxed out ride in the Whycato last weekend, Down to Port Waikato, around by the Nikau caves and over to Meremere.

I post on the main forum when I'm at work and to see what the non riding majority are up to.

Hows your new bike?

A lucked 0ut ride did ewe say????????
Can't get more than one official BFTP bike or rider in one place at the same time anymore, sadly.
Not for the purposes of a proper planned,attended BFTP ride, that's for sure.

**jmk** · 13th March 2014, 21:03

Very disappointed to read about the toys. I can understand some but gosh so many bags full doesnt sound right.

**carver** · 14th March 2014, 05:24

Originally Posted by Murray

Good turn out last night 15+ people. made for a happy chef -not. Nice to have M/M Hobbyhorse visit again and welcome back to Jantar.

Rumour had it Carver was going to make a guest appearance but hes so damn fast he must have come and gone before anyone saw him?

Its a race to cum first

**BigAl** · 14th March 2014, 07:22

Originally Posted by jmk

Very disappointed to read about the toys. I can understand some but gosh so many bags full doesnt sound right.

Exactly, it is not right.

Apparently they get so many that they just dump a lot of them, whereas I'm sure there are other options.

The Waikato times have been shown the evidence so will be interesting if there is a story about it.

Bikers should be/have been notified not to bring them if they were just going to be dumped.

**Murray** · 14th March 2014, 07:43

Originally Posted by Voltaire

Hows your new bike?

New?? Its now officially 20 years old!! - Pretty much done everything I wanted to do on it now - new rear tyre last week made a big difference - really enjoying riding it now.

cheers

**STJim** · 14th March 2014, 08:31

Originally Posted by BigAl

So true Murray, a work colleague found 15 rubbish sacks of NEW & used stuffed toys at a local dump.

They were labelled 2014 Toy run and I have seen the pics to prove.

A massive waste imo as they could have been onsold or donated.

The first point I need to make is that the Waikato Branch of Ulysses hands all of the toys over to Child Cancer.
A child cancer volunteer was responsible for dumping the unusable toys. unusable toys are anything that is dirty or appears used or has "Moth balls"
In future my understanding is that Child cancer will be asked to return what they access to be "unusable "toys to Ulysses and Ulysses will dispose of the same hopefully, to Salvation Army thrift shops or Saint Vincent de Paul's or other such.
You can be certain that we will not want this to happen again.

**caseye** · 14th March 2014, 10:58

On ya Jim and the Waikato Ulysses boys and girls, seems a shame,understand the caution, but for the sake of perhaps a good old fashioned spin in a tub many of them could be quite safe and provide many more years of service to the kids they were meant for.

**BigAl** · 14th March 2014, 12:09

Originally Posted by STJim

The first point I need to make is that the Waikato Branch of Ulysses hands all of the toys over to Child Cancer.
A child cancer volunteer was responsible for dumping the unusable toys. unusable toys are anything that is dirty or appears used or has "Moth balls"
In future my understanding is that Child cancer will be asked to return what they access to be "unusable "toys to Ulysses and Ulysses will dispose of the same hopefully, to Salvation Army thrift shops or Saint Vincent de Paul's or other such.
You can be certain that we will not want this to happen again.

The Ulysses club did a great job, as they do every year organising and running the event.

Its just the stupidity and arrogance of the Child Cancer people to 1. dump surplus toys and 2. dump them clearly labelled.

**rustyrobot** · 14th March 2014, 12:24

You've got to admit though, there's only so many children who want to receive a(nother) stuffed toy. Of course they look a lot better on the run than a little box of lego taped to the handlebars, but you could always get an op-shop toy for ride outift and a cool little present for the actual gift. We got two non-gender specific toys for the unofficial toy run down here.

Yeeees, they should be thankful for whatever, but it's also nice to give a thoughtful gift.

Having said that - it's not like I checked the dump to see if our donations turned up there.

**ZeroIndex** · 14th March 2014, 12:58

If I ever find out the little kitty-cat that I bought got dumped, I'll be massively pissed off... I was considering keeping it for myself (to sit next to my computer...)

**ZeroIndex** · 14th March 2014, 15:37

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11219244

so, weather is looking a bit crap for the weekend.

**STJim** · 15th March 2014, 12:30

Originally Posted by ZeroIndex

If I ever find out the little kitty-cat that I bought got dumped, I'll be massively pissed off... I was considering keeping it for myself (to sit next to my computer...)

If it was a new item that shouldn't have happened