March Hare 2008

[dangerous]

haha... some funny reading there people, sorry cant give rep these days, its been taken from me LOL

[Ghost_Bullet]

The bike of the rally....no Bias, but I never heard of it before, but it ooooozed appeal.

And last but not least, THE FOOD of the rally, never can be beaten!!!!!

[chanceyy]

Then it was straight into the friday night festivities... while waiting for TWR and Chancyy to turn up... waiting, and waiting... eventually turned up about 9.15 after running out of fuel at waimate 1 km from the rally site.

well as you can see from Bill's post it did not appear to be running outta fuel .. but hey we got there & it was all good. thanks Mike & Gwen you saved me from my "putting a tent up in the dark skills" & at least we got it up before the rain really started ..

Then it was alcohol and dancing and a wee bit of drizzle, and before i knew it, it was 2am and time to contemplate sleep. Esp after the band had stopped about 1.5 hours earlier and we had gossiped and waited for them to come back... but they didn.t
At least SOME of us got to bed then, others took a wee while longer to get there eh BB & 98TLS

Awesome nite and waits for "that photo" to be posted ... creamy & smooth huh Mike .. by the way .. Bill & I have a new nickname for you .. "slim shady" I know you guys thought you were being really quiet when you arrived back at the tents at 5am .. but sorry you weren't ...

great to catch up with familar faces and meet those that I have talked to for quite a while .. sorry for the trauma Mike .. my cleavage is still sore .. dunno if that is from the whiskers or Bill pushing ya head in even further

Kels great to finally say hi in real

and sorry to say I will be back .. that was way to much fun to miss out on ..

Canned muslim chicken

: OMG that was one damn funny convo ... forgot about it til I read that ...

managed to have a dry ride down & got back to Bills bout 45 mins before the rain hit .. with the odd shower over the weekend really it was not as bad as the predictions earlier in the week ..

[Wingnut]

Pretty sure I saw that one in Oamaru too. Had to look twice - even three times........

[dangerous]

The bike of the rally....no Bias, but I never heard of it before, but it ooooozed appeal.

http://www.magni.it/storia2.htm

[Ghost_Bullet]

http://www.magni.it/storia2.htm

Makes ya want one. boootiful! Luv the spray on this one.

[98tls]

Slim shady? What did i do that ive forgotten?Fantastic weekend indeed,only meant to go for one night but was having such a good time it turned into two.Very tired this morning and was woken by a Buell outside my tent which as good as they sound wasnt really what i needed.Very glad home was only 20 minutes away.Great to put faces (amongst other things) to names.Highlight of the weekend was actually i will keep that to myself.Thanks to all involved for a really great time,especially the Waimate guys that organize the March Hare,they do a fantastic job.

[chanceyy]

Slim shady? What did i do that ive forgotten?Fantastic weekend indeed,only meant to go for one night but was having such a good time it turned into two.Very tired this morning and was woken by a Buell outside my tent which as good as they sound wasnt really what i needed.Very glad home was only 20 minutes away.Great to put faces (amongst other things) to names.Highlight of the weekend was actually i will keep that to myself.Thanks to all involved for a really great time.

what didn't you do hmm tired and definately shady this morning mind you I dunna think you were the only one feeling those effects ...

[Buddha#81:Me]

I'm far from a rally virgin........But its been a long while since I've been to one and about 10 years ago was my last (Canvastown Capers) so when a workmate offered me his Blackbird to go to the MH, I removed my self imposed "no roadriding" rule and acepted the offer. Its been 10 years or so since I've done any serious road riding.
I picked the Bird up on Friday night from Lincoln and road across town in the rain to New Brighton and wondered what I'd done, I didn't enjoy the experience or the bike, but put my gear in the luggage and strapped the tent on and went to bed with the alarm set for a early start.

I got up and had some brekkie and headed back across to Linclon to meet up with Johnny (bird owner) and his wife Ange who I was going to travel with, they were traveling on their mint '81 GS1000G. We met at their place and loaded some more gear on the bird and hit the road we headed to Rakaia to meet another couple.......Here some scumbag's turned up.

We headed up Tompsons track to go inland and finally I started to get what the Bird was all about, it chews up miles with no effort and is rock sold at any speed. we had a un-eventful but overcast ride through to Geraldine where we met up with the same scumbags, a quick chat and a coffee in Fairlie was planned. With some interesting and old tractors and cars on the road, the rain and loose gravel ment this section on a borrowed 150 hp bike wasn't one I hold high in my most memorable rides. but we got there a bit damp, the borrowed riding gear offered little in the way of waterproofness. The coffee was good comany same, except for the scumbags.

Fairlie to the Rally site was via Cave and the Pareoria Valley, this went by ok with a bit more drizzle and loose gravel. At the site the thought of riding a borrowed bike on wet grass and the scumbags were going to be perched at the entrance watching goobers like me with the morbid view of hoping to see some dropped bikes.

Camp Buddha was set up and the usual rally goings on proceeded. the Scumbags numbers had grown and the rain had started so we ventured to some stables for protection and proceeded to tell many lies. The Dyno was the afternoons highlight trying to guess Harley's PTO hp. One poor owner finding out his $47,000 Harley was down 20 odd hp on what it was ment to have and he appeared to be a little upset with the news.
Wet grass and bikes provided lite entertainment throughout the afternoon. The sun went down the bands did their thing and several scumbags tried to get this whiteboy to dance.............Failed.
In bed by 1am and listened to the ongoing entertainment.

Today dawned clear but wet under-foot we packed and headed home up SH1. The trip home, other than some drizzle just out of Timaru was under blue skys. I was just what the doctor ordered tootling along with others enjoying the day. Back in Lincoln the Bird got a bath and tucked up in bed.

Some things I picked up on this weekend:
-Most Harley owners are knobs and ride like knobs.......
-The Honda Blackbird is one cool scooter even with 110,000 km's on the clock.......would I own one? Probally not. I'm more a motard/ adventure bike sort of guy.
-If someone offers you riding gear to use, check if its waterproof.
-I don't dance even under pressure.
-Moro's are a good snack no as good while doing 100kph and wearing a fullface helmut.
-The March is now a annual event for Buddha.
-KBers are farken everywhere.

Reinstated my self imposed "no roadriding" rule. Thanks Johnny for alowing me to have the Bird for the weekend.

[Lil'M]

I am finally starting to feel human again after an action packed day of feeling sorry for myself. Thanks all for a great time! Was good to hang out with some of you who I've only met briefly before, Dave from greta valley you are one party hard animal!! haha. And girls we're gona have to get that giftpack sorted for D with the 'target' blue scanner, rubber glove and spray n wipe. See ya all next time

[Ghost_Bullet]

And girls we're gona have to get that giftpack sorted for D with the 'target' blue scanner, rubber glove and spray n wipe

This must be a story to be told???

[T.W.R]

Great weekend with a great bunch of people

After the slightly delayed arrival on Friday night, was glad to have a helping hand throwing the tent up under the lights of the TL and getting it done before the rain fell.
Think the consumables levels will have to be put into detox for a while though felt rather green this morning

couple of pics

1) a few of the crew
2) ST Duke on the dyno
3) A wicked mural paint job (Lake Pearson as the setting with various ages of bikers doing the crossing over the Alps from past to present, 21mths to build the bike & 110hrs of custom air brush work)
4) Trick custom GSX-R another amazing paint job
5) Same GSX-R from behind
6) Tasty Rocket III

[timg]

5 I think Helen has left some thing at the top of the Haka

Awesome weekend. Great to catch up and meet some more KBer's. We had an awesone ride there and back via the Haka Valley, missing most of the rain.

Helen with her teeth in!
Shrek's tyre troubles
Helen of Troy

[Subike]

Dave from greta valley you are one party hard animal!! haha.

You did a pretty cool job yourself there lady, there were a lot that discovered this old fellow is hard to keep up with on the dance floor.

[woodybee]

[/QUOTE]Bloody hell, talking about hitching a ride to the rally eh...........

Got to the rally at 9.30 by which time it was well dark, and how I hate riding in the dark. IDB has the patience of a saint as he waited lots of time for me to play catch up, so as normal, ur a top bloke ta dude.......

Arrived at the site,, and met up with Rashika........we decided to camp elsewhere, as we ran into some qtowners who were in front of us and were trying to find them, so we weren't snubbing ya dudes......besides which I snore like a charging rhinoserus, so saved you all from that

The Brothers Grim are just fantastic had a really good dance to them, but didnt have my dance partner xknuts to dance with Sweet Child of Mine....bounced around with some complete stranger,,,,the tallest geezer I have met in NZ......

Anyway, rose quiet late on Saturday, and took the bus into Waimate, to have a pub crawl......met up iwht 2 male fairies and a pig in one of the pubs, who were absoultely mothered......and bikers from christchurch......they do a theme to every rally, I reckon thats a great idea...we should do that at one of the rallies..........

Pasta and red wine were scoffed, needed by then as we were well on the way to getting wankered ourselves, so it saved us from a worse feeling this morning.

Was having a ball until I smoked some dope, which commotosed me for about an hour and rendered me glazed and silent..............not nice......was glad when the effect wore off,,,,,fuck I hope I didnt run into any of you at that time, it wasnt pretty......got talked to by a mate from invers, and IDB said that I was swaying all over the place and just staring at the invers guy.....od dear

Got up at 10am scoffed a tinw of watties big breakfast (yyyyyyuuuuuuuuum), then started the ride home which was frankly shitit pissed down most of the way, and got cold, then the bastard wind started.....ooo I Hate the Wind.

Need to get round the corners without doing a death grip on my handlebars so doing a track day in Teratonga then end of March, so hopefully that should sort me out.........

Was good to run into you guys again, albeit fleetingly......see you at Hororate if I can get time off, or Off the Rails.......
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