Maverick 250 ride 5/8/07

[delusionz]

DAMN!!!!!! That was a blast!!!!!! And I thought I knew my bike! Boy did it have a treat reserved for me just past my usual no-go zone

[sprag]

A big thanks to the farmer that helped with all the bin bikes, and his wife makes good coffee, it was a good ride up to that evil part of the road.

[McJim]

A few things to learn from today.

1/ Way pointers - please wait IN FRONT of the the junction directing the ride. (leaders can help by being very specific with their pointing!)
2/ When there's a bin park in a visible place or even better off the road altogether.
3/ Again when there's a bin have riders placed a good 50m and 100m before the site of the accident to slow the traffic down.

Apart from that - It was a good ride for most - some people rode further than others and glad that the bins only resulted in flesh wounds and some bent bits.

Do we need to organise a box of beer for the farmer?

Big thanks to:

Gremlin for leading Group 1
Maverick for leading Group 2
Gijoe1313 for TEC 1
Donor for TEC 2
jtzzr for TEC 2on the way home
gijoe1313 for lead 2 way home

And thanks to Mav for organising and everyone else for turning up

Cheers.

[carbacca]

great ride, sad to hear people have binned it, not a great experience but you sure do learn from it. hope it hasnt scared you off, just get back up and back at it again.

3rd time in 3 weeks i've been out that way to kaiaua. took a little detour when i left the group at clevedon out to maraetai, great scenery out that way

can the next ride be out towards a different direction?? north or west or south would be great :P

[breakaway]

Can we please get some details on what happend to those people who binned it? Also how exactly did it happen?

[delusionz]

A couple snaps from me showing some bikes

[tide]

Hi Guys... thanks for the ride... sorry to hear about the guys that binned... I believe they are ok just some sore bikes... here are some pics of the ride...

[McJim]

Can we please get some details on what happend to those people who binned it? Also how exactly did it happen?

That's for the people who binned to mention. Unwritten site rule. You must have the binner's permission before you reveal details.

No-one was hurt badly though.

[tide]

some more pics

[tide]

one for McJim to dribble over...

[tide]

last lot of pics...

[carbacca]

couple of pics from me

great to see the multiplying swarm of hobag gt250's. 4 red, 2 mangos (one being a comet) i counted.

[delusionz]

By the way, I thought this was a 250 ride?? Was shocked at all the big guys that turned up

[gijoe1313]

Well, cheers to one and all for turning up - once again, let me express my hope that all bikers are well and nothing too serious. Bikes can be fixed!

Just got home... I think I got another ride in from the BP after having a good natter with Zapf, Gremlin and Leong (a surreal conversation which I scarily understood!)

Sorry for holding anyone up, but our group was taking it's time and pulling over to let (irate) cagers past! . John our TEC did a marvellous job on his Blackbird, as it turns out worked perfectly! He would zip past the fledgings and give me a toot to tell me that we were gumming up the works (70kph will do that on an open road! )

Great turn-out and kudos to Zapf and all others who stepped up to the plate after the unfortunate series of events. A bit of rain and some confusion over ride routes was not enough to stop most enjoying a bit of nosh at the Kaiaua local chippy! :yes"

Thanks McJim for doing the doubling back to see if I had planted another hondaberry or went for a swim (no fear!) was funny watching him on the duchess splash several cagers as he blatted past them (it throws up a heap of water!)

Righto, guess I better organise one of my classic pootling rides so people can get saddle sore!

[Leong]

Another interesting KB event!! Thanks to Mav, McJim and co for organising. A big turnout, highly variable road conditions, from very clean dry road to wet mossy roads, slips, bit of gravel mid corner in places - that most made it home in one piece was quite commendable.

We did the long route.... Kaiaua loop with a detour to do the Hunua gorge to Papakura. Quite a nice road - Hunua to Papakura, to have to do twice!!

Good to catch up with a few KBers I haven't seen in a while and meet some new faces!!!