DB1k 08 - aka Dusty Butt 08

[magicfairy]

Transalper is on your one. He is heading back to SI after a holiday in NI that day.

[Transalper]

Transalper is on your one. ....

Yeeha, and we'll actually be with other friends in Hastings or Waimarama Beach on New Years eve.

[Zukin]

Yeeha, and we'll actually be with other friends in Hastings or Waimarama Beach on New Years eve.

Haha

Are you on the bike or in your car?
Make sure you bring your sunscreen, I will order the weather for ya

[Transalper]

J and I will be on our bikes. My daughter lives in Hastings, we're spending a few earlier nights in Rotorua too.

[Zukin]

Well if you feel like a blast through some of H Bay's finest gravel roads, let me know

When are you heading down to Welly to catch the Ferry? I may leave on Tuesday afternoon and get as far as Masterton, and stay the night there
Not sure yet

Cheers

[Transalper]

I'll pm ya to continue this conversation.

[Zukin]

Hi all

Is the Shell at the South End of town the only fuel stop in Hanmer now?

[cooneyr]

Hi all

Is the Shell at the South End of town the only fuel stop in Hanmer now?

Caltex and yes.

Cheers R

[Zukin]

Thanks for that, after all the years going through there I always thought it was a Shell

There used to be a Caltex in the middle of town a few years back

Cheers

[Aslan]

hi all - just looked at this thread after Zukin aka Scott posted on BMWOR. I'd be interested in doing the two day version - have done Rainbow, Molesworth several times and the Maruia Saddle once. Would be apprehensive about the dirt sections on the eleven fiddy GS which is what I would use - I'm not as confident or competent as BusaJim. Need some encouragement from others. Will firm up plans in the next little while and decide one way or another.

[warewolf]

There used to be a Caltex in the middle of town a few years back

Mobil and yes.

[Balrog]

Bugger

I am on the Interislander, 10.30am sailing
I will wait on the other side

Sounds good pm sent

[warewolf]

Would be apprehensive about the dirt sections on the eleven fiddy GS which is what I would use - I'm not as confident or competent as BusaJim. Need some encouragement from others.

The roughest bits are the Maungatapu and Porika Tracks, which are 4wd tracks not gravel roads. Both of those take longer than going around the long way on the tar, so you could quite comfortably bypass them without getting too far away from the group - particularly doing it as the 2-day.

Maungatapu is a lot more chopped out at the moment than it was 12 months ago.

But you'd probably do both in the dry in the daylight quite OK.

[Aslan]

The roughest bits are the Maungatapu and Porika Tracks, which are 4wd tracks not gravel roads. Both of those take longer than going around the long way on the tar, so you could quite comfortably bypass them without getting too far away from the group - particularly doing it as the 2-day.

Maungatapu is a lot more chopped out at the moment than it was 12 months ago.

But you'd probably do both in the dry in the daylight quite OK.

Cheers for that Colin - certainly tempted - Rainbow and Molesworth are my default options - so I could easily be tempted to tackle this. Would plan on running TCK80's and decide on Maungatapu and Porika Tracks based on weather nearer the time. Stephen O aka Aslan

[Zukin]

Cheers for that Colin - certainly tempted - Rainbow and Molesworth are my default options - so I could easily be tempted to tackle this. Would plan on running TCK80's and decide on Maungatapu and Porika Tracks based on weather nearer the time. Stephen O aka Aslan

Hi S

Sound good, I will be on the GS too with TCK80's, I might lower the gearing a bit, as you know they aren't the lowest gearing
If the weather is bad, I will bypass these sections too, but only as a last resort

We used to class Porika as an all weather track, but with some loose rocks on the Hairpin corners it can catch the unweary rider out, (as I found out the hard way)

It would be good to have you along