Sunday ride (13 January)

**discotex** · 13th January 2008, 08:48

Originally Posted by TOTO

yea man join us gonnna be fun

Sweet as.. On my way

**gijoe1313** · 13th January 2008, 08:56

Righto, little ol'hornet is washed, de-greased, pre-shine polish, polish and final waxing done and done!

Getting the gears ready, going to the BP to gasgas and meet and greet and then scoot and poot!

Spotcha two wheeled fellow purveyors o'fun at the BP!

**Donor** · 13th January 2008, 09:08

*sigh*

**TOTO** · 13th January 2008, 18:43

Bloody brilliant ride GiJoe, loved it. Thanks so much for showing us your secret twisties. You get the cup

Favourite moment: Long left downhill 55km/h corner with beautiful seal, so loved it.

Least favourite: 90 degree right corner with recommended speed 25km/h in one of the vilages on the way back. Estimated it wrongly and ran wide into the dirt, but lucky it was 5cm into it and it was not a weired angle coz I would have had my first bin story.

Overal very happy and would gladly do it again at a moments notice. Glad I pulled that sickie too - nuffin better than getting paid and doing something you love at the same time.

I couldnt figure out at the end when you two in the front took off did you go straight onto the motorway on ramp which was 700m down the road or did you go somewhere else? We turned on it and didn't see you since so we decided to go home. I have the gut feeling we missed some of your twisties at the end with that move but if that's the case, you can show them to us next time

Managed to snap some pics too. I'm putting them on...

Thanks for the great day everyone

**TOTO** · 13th January 2008, 18:51

and some more ...

**PirateJafa** · 13th January 2008, 18:51

Originally Posted by TOTO

I couldnt figure out at the end when you two in the front took off did you go straight onto the motorway on ramp which was 700m down the road or did you go somewhere else? We turned on it and didn't see you since so we decided to go home. I have the gut feeling we missed some of your twisties at the end with that move but if that's the case, you can show them to us next time

Nah, we just hung a left and gapped it down the motorway at a great rate of knots. Wait who am I kidding? We're on two-fiddeys. :P

Excellent ride (apart from the twat in the white car who tried to say hello to GIJoe) , and I look forward to doing it again!

Looking less forward to going back to work tomorrow

**xwhatsit** · 13th January 2008, 19:20

That ride I enjoyed the most in my (short) history of motorcycling. Managed to get into this curious rhythm through certain bits of SH22 that suited the bike to a tee. Could feel forks winding and unwinding, touch of swingarm flex, but in certain strings of twisties this all seemed to bend me into the next corner as if it was designed that way. Weird.

Had a ball. Thanks guys.

Bike didn't lose any more oil. Not sure why the oil dropped from full to 1/4 from the low mark within 200kms, but on the ride home it stayed at 1/4. Will top it up to full again and see what happens.

So the rest of you guys in front peeled off onto the motorway immediately as well? We couldn't see you in front, despite having a very clear view of a long strip of motorway. Peeled off at Ramarama to have a chat about where you guys went, decided it was too late and carried on up the motorway.

**Jeaves** · 13th January 2008, 20:36

Great ride today chaps , had a blast and there was plenty of twistys to keep us all entertained .

**discotex** · 13th January 2008, 21:04

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

Nah, we just hung a left and gapped it down the motorway at a great rate of knots. Wait who am I kidding? We're on two-fiddeys. :P

Ahh yeah I kinda lost sight of you guys for a sec cause I wasn't paying attention. Thought I saw a bike head on the motorway so went down the ramp but I was clearly mistaken as there wasn't anyone there once we hit the motorway.

See what happens when you get tired!

Much apologies to those behind me. I'll have to organise another ride to pay back the twisties you may have missed.

On the plus side, after a day of non stop cornering your tyres probably needed some squaring off on the motorway

Was a bloody great day out. Thanks Jeaves for taking TEC on the way back so I could have a play up the front. Loved the roads. Great choice GI!

The only downer to my day was being attacked (read attempt to ram me twice) by a cage just now on the way back west. Got his plate and called 111 on his arse. Fingers crossed they caught up to him (or even bothered looking).

**discotex** · 13th January 2008, 21:18

Originally Posted by TOTO

Least favourite: 90 degree right corner with recommended speed 25km/h in one of the vilages on the way back. Estimated it wrongly and ran wide into the dirt, but lucky it was 5cm into it and it was not a weired angle coz I would have had my first bin story.

Was that that corner between the last place we stopped and the motorway? If it's the one I'm thinking of it was a real nasty corner. Over a rise, off camber, and tightening quicker than you expect.

Kicks all the survival reactions in eh! Bloody glad you didn't drop it in the dirt

**TOTO** · 13th January 2008, 21:21

Originally Posted by discotex

Ahh yeah I kinda lost sight of you guys for a sec cause I wasn't paying attention. Thought I saw a bike head on the motorway so went down the ramp but I was clearly mistaken as there wasn't anyone there once we hit the motorway.

See what happens when you get tired!

Much apologies to those behind me. I'll have to organise another ride to pay back the twisties you may have missed.

On the plus side, after a day of non stop cornering your tyres probably needed some squaring off on the motorway

Was a bloody great day out. Thanks Jeaves for taking TEC on the way back so I could have a play up the front. Loved the roads. Great choice GI!

The only downer to my day was being attacked (read attempt to ram me twice) by a cage just now on the way back west. Got his plate and called 111 on his arse. Fingers crossed they caught up to him (or even bothered looking).

Was that after I left you? Damn. I was thinking of going the long way with you for company to grefille or wherever, sad I didnt. Will stik tobether. You got his rego ? we can amm you know ..

**gijoe1313** · 13th January 2008, 21:22

Well what can I say, you gentleman are a pleasure to ride with. Now where do I start? Lets go from the beginning!

I'm sure this ride was organamised by Jeaves, but somehow the planning details of the ride was left to me!?

Anyway I rolled some dice and voila! Instant route (of course abled to be modified at a drop of a clutch by me!)

The meet up was awesome, plenty of bikers and bike pr0n to ooh ahh over

Xerxesdaphat was your typical coy biker with his "I won't be there" .. "oh yes, I will be!"

Anyway, we zip off to the beginning of SH22 and head out to the twisties, was luvverly and the only incident was at the Waingaro pub where a frikk'n lady in a white car was on the wrong side of the road turning into the driveway!

I had slowed down because of this area, but I was still emergency braking like crazy! Felt the back fishtail, released pressure and looked to the clear space to the left and kept it rubber side down.

Only to also see PirateJafa zip to the right of me (thank gosh!) we pulled over at the side of the road, I allowed my heart to sink back into its right place and my sphincter to get out of my mouth

I tracked down the erroneous driver and it turned out to be a dear old maori lady (her race has nothing to do with this, but I thought I'd mentioned it) she was delivering birthday cakes and we had a good chat, I wasn't going to rip her head off since it wouldn't have helped ... she reckons she always does that and nary had a problem .. till now :slap:

Anyhoo, all good, just another moment in the day of a biker!

Off we tootled to Raglan and had lunch there, I think PirateJafa and Xerxesdaphat are batting for the other team they were ensconced thick as thieves behind another guy!

Saw plenty of bikes and admired the view with some moments of ornithology

Anyway, we are bikers so off we zootled back to Ngaruawahia and did the river road ride and cut back to SH22 via the tunnel (always good to rev the ol'engine going through it!) Conditions were hot and the tar was running, we rode with circumspection and I'm sure the guys behind thought their ride captain was a random rider doing all these weird little jinks and movements ... and then they understood when the usual appellation we give to NZ road quality was made abundant!

Deja Vu struck again when at Onewhero golf club, a crazy cager was overtaking at the intersection ... with me in that section of the road

Emergency braking again, pulled hard left to the shoulder and all was good. PirateJafa even zipped by me on the right again!

Anyway got to a banjo playing village (okay it was Tuakau) and we did the last bit of twisties and we flanged home. And yes, we did take the left turn onto the moronway, but we were matching speed with the cagers and doing a fair rate of knots!

Piccies to come.

**discotex** · 13th January 2008, 21:34

Originally Posted by TOTO

Was that after I left you? Damn. I was thinking of going the long way with you for company to grefille or wherever, sad I didnt. Will stik tobether. You got his rego ? we can amm you know ..

Nah that was on my way back from Browns Bay to Blockhouse Bay. It made me realised I couldn't live in the US. I'd arm myself and kill one of these road rage pricks and end up in jail.

Originally Posted by gijoe1313

Anyway, we are bikers so off we zootled back to Ngaruawahia and did the river road ride and cut back to SH22 via the tunnel (always good to rev the ol'engine going through it!)

Ahhhhhhh that's how that worked. I couldn't work out how we did so much of 22 when we went the other way back.

Originally Posted by gijoe1313

Anyway got to a banjo playing village (okay it was Tuakau) and we did the last bit of twisties and we flanged home. And yes, we did take the left turn onto the moronway, but we were matching speed with the cagers and doing a fair rate of knots!

So I wasn't going nuts? Thank the biker gods! I was getting a case of the guilts for cheating everyone out of more curvy roads.

I've never ridden any of those roads but I sure will be again sometime soon!

**gijoe1313** · 13th January 2008, 21:50

Pic1 : Waingaro stop to check for my brown stains
Pic2 : The sign says keep left!!!

Car was right where the driveway is by the signs. And me zootling along around the corner .. and

I always ride with the thought "what if...." and boy bloody hell was it a "what if" day!

Pic3 : Whatta motley crew
Pic4 : And one is worse than the lot put together!
Pic5 : The sordid evidence of two stalking an unwary lad...
Pic6 : Ooh! Red ones go faster! And they did get lots of looks!

More pics to come

**gijoe1313** · 13th January 2008, 21:54

The banjo town beckons...

We had a brief stop to hear the duelling banjoes ... Jeaves was like a local and fitted in wonderfully, you could hear the thick accent and the drawl coming through!

PirateJafa needed to make some quick cash on account of all the extra fuel he used following gijoe1313's patented pootling planner!