Woodstock Rally Jan 25-27, 2008

[woodybee]

Hey dudy's

Wooo up early to do this...............now hows that song go........."The things you do for bikes, like riding int he rain and the sun, when there's, no place to go, and you feel like a part of you is dying.......(Riding back after a rally!!)

Sels Dude, was nice to meet an greet you, might have to try a summer Welly rally next year.

Well what can I say...........Woodystock remains my favourite rally, for the site and facilities, the weather, and the fact theres shed loads of folk there.

The ride from Qtown and Thurs arvo was fast and furious, yep even for me. I had to stop for a snooze under a tree, in Hawea, the excitement must have drained me!! Then race to Haast, and thank you you for the council that looks after that area, if I had wanted to skid for a few hundered metres across gravel I would have bought a dirt bike. Anyway, met up with IDB at Franz later on, and went to the Blue IceCafe and watched a Serbian Russian, Crocoian Gypsy band............yeah right they came from Auckland, and the place rocked....................what a laugh, and your dancing still hasn't improved by the way, ha ha

Then wearily got up for brekky and made the dash for Hoki, but before we did we ran into Paul Smart, Ducatti man extraordinaire and what a top man He is....."Mr. Smart, I will have your t-shirt soon"......grabbed his email for future chit chats etc.,

By the time we got to Hoki, the campsite was filling up fast, and it promised to be the biggest ever...............Friday night was kinda a blur but was good to feel the grass under my dancing feet again and catch up with new KBers...

The next day we tried in vain to meet up with Scummy and the rest, in Reefton, but my god there are so many beatufiul photo shots around there, and even Greymouth looked nice in the sunshine. Did manange to catch Shreik and Sels for a quick pint though before heading back to camp via a pub on the bulla gorge road, where tennis was played on a sandy vollyeball court, needed the racket to swat a few of those frigging sandflies there, though, wicked little shitty things

Back to the camp and most of the KBers were getting on the way to getting pretty munted....ghostbullet, tee hee, nice photo on my camera of you kissing the grass later that night.

One of the bands were good, the other one, well I cant play an instrument, so cant really critisise I guess.

Anyway, it was heaving, and fun, very boozy before watching those fantastic fireworks (I really will have to get you Kiwi's more vocal for those fireworks

Off to zzzz's at 4ish, only to woken up by those pipers, guys if you read this please book in for 9 oclock next time, was funny to hear bird song mixed in with swearing, and telling them were to stick their pipes.....funny now, b t at the time

By the time we left the site, time was a ticking, and the start of the ride was daunting all the way back to Queenstown in one day, felt like a documentary was about to develop!!!!

Ran out of petrol in Heri Heri, but met some cool locals and a bunch of Dunedin dudes I knew, so they syphoned their tanks, IDB drank petrol....thanks mate, I'd do the same for you and off in the quad pak we went for a pint, chat and onwards........

The crown range by the time we got there, was like a frigging scary rollercoaster, but my trusty stead and my guardian angel angel got me to the bottom, although I had to lift my visor because of the fretful steam coming from within it. Any tan I have picked up is now a whiter shade of pale.

So thats about it, I continue to be in Awe at the Kiwi landscape, and wonder ohow much of the road I actually view when I am riding!!

And I love my new pipes which I think got recorded by Ghosty........mmmmmmm my Tex sounds like an adolescent tiger now,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Vroooooooooom, Put Put Put, noweven made some cows run away in horror as I passed them

So see you all at the Vincent........yee Har

[scumdog]

Well, back home now after a night at Rashikas and Dangerous - hadn't planned on being home so soon but had an urgent work ralted thingy to sort out so here we are.

Got here safe-as, had a smooth cruise down from Chch, best part was passing thre stocktruck/trailer units near Waimate turn-off, almost had to exceed 100kph!!

Got detoured near Pukeuri due to a head-on, ferkin' road-works all the way down here so total travel time quite long.

Superglide is still more economical than the Sporty despite being heavier and 250cc bigger (and slower), picked up another muffler for the Sporty and have fitted it so it's all good again.

[Rashika]

glad you guys made it back safely... so just where did you pick up another muffler huh? not the back of a truck I hope

catch you lot on saturday at the next big bash... woohoo roll on Vincent county

[scumdog]

glad you guys made it back safely... so just where did you pick up another muffler huh? not the back of a truck I hope

catch you lot on saturday at the next big bash... woohoo roll on Vincent county

The muffler?
Ah, well, ya gotta know people.

And sorry, we got too keen to get home and never picked up magazine

And the ferkin lanky pooch wanted to eat my jandal!!

But hey guys, thanks for the hospitality, very very appreciated. (Hope ya managed to get into your house

[Ghost_Bullet]

Well Ms Woodybee I did get that little clip of your mighty pipe, very sweet it was to, nearly got me goin and all!!!!!!!!

Woodstock rev.wmv

Very nice noise, and these little rev ups are somthing lovely, nuthin like a nice rumble in the jungle

[doc]

I'm home!!
Will do a ride report another day coz FERK am I shattered!!!!!
Jen

Must be getting old huh, need a nana nap .

[MyGSXF:Me]

Must be getting old huh, need a nana nap .

nah.. just bin hangin out wiv tooo many Norf Islanders of late...







Got my photo of my arrival at the rally, today.. shit I only ordered it on Tues!! bloody awesome pic too!!! Well done 'Kolourcare' from Waimate!!!!


*wanders off to fiddle with new scanner thingee.... *

[sels1]

nah.. just bin hangin out wiv tooo many Norf Islanders of late...

And you say that like its a bad thing??????

[MyGSXF:Me]

And you say that like its a bad thing??????

hhmmmmmm.... maaaybe.. maaaybe not...

[feral1]

Fucken stoked you all had such a good time. I know the club once again really enjoyed putting on the feralist rally in the West. Long live the WOODSTOCK RALLY. Sweet weather for your rides. Totally wicked.

Sadly I couldn't be there; was riding at Round Three of the Castrol New Zealand Road Race Championships at Teratonga. Would've loved to have been there and gotten smashed with you KB'ers. oh yeah..

D: Scummy, Woodybee; thanks very much to you guys drumming all the interest up on the forum for our rally. This year was another huge sucess with a wicked turn out.

See ya next time mates

Eric

Feral1

[doc]

just bin hangin out wiv tooo many Norf Islanders of late... first:

yeah we have a few up here with low standards, pity you can't get a visa to come up and meet a few who have standards .

[MyGSXF:Me]

This year was another huge sucess with a wicked turn out

what were the final numbers Eric??

[MyGSXF:Me]

yeah we have a few up here with low standards, pity you can't get a visa to come up and meet a few who have standards .

I'll get up there at some stage matey, don'tchu worry!!! & will be a hell road trip when I do!!!!! There's a few of the rabble I'm lookin forward to meeting up that way!!

[T.W.R]

ok I have been talked into it will be coming next yr .. as long as someone does not lead me astray ..


so sels you in for another trip in 2009?

[dangerous]

ok I have been talked into it will be coming next yr .. as long as someone does not lead me astray ..

Mint, make it a mish and do the Hasst whill ya at it.

chanceyy here .. too lazy to log in under my own name

So... you Chancyy are loged in as TWR on my comp, while Im away at a rally in far south.. now Im sure the bed was made when I left.. whats been going on? 2 wine glasses on the bench too, ya could have at least cleaned up after ya self.