Capital Coast Adventure Ride 26 April 2008. Photos here

**merv** · 30th April 2008, 08:10

Originally Posted by marks

Hi Merv

Pampa added some pictures - a couple are nearly 3 megs a pop - hence the slow load

Crikey just went and had a look at them and yeah the way it loads and you gotta scroll the page to look at it no wonder I prefer thumbnails where the page loads fast and you see what pics are coming up straight away.

BMW gear shaft - hmmmm

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**Qkchk:Me** · 30th April 2008, 10:50

Originally Posted by MOTOXNUT

Was thinking of doing the 42nd traverse ride some time soon with the wife also on her bike. She is very new to off road riding and i would welcome your comments on the degree of difficulty. how long did it take 1 way, which direction did you doth the ride, and any other comments you may have.

Did the 42nd Traverse on the way down to the CCA. We rode the section from National Park side (Kapoors Road) and came out at Owhango - approx 44kms long. Would recommend to ride the track this direction as there are a couple of sharp rock uphill climbs that would either shred you and your bike if stuffed up. If you cannot ride through wet clay and 4wd rut tracks I would not advise on doing the ride, definately do not do it alone - long walk out if something goes wrong. Be prepared to meet Mountainbikers, 4wds, Quads and Walkers. Some spectacular scenery and was really enjoyable, just dont be in a rush to complete it. (we had to meet the group in Ohakune, so was a bit pushed for time.)

**gazzerklr** · 30th April 2008, 20:51

Originally Posted by pete376403

Woops, sorry, after seeing you talking to Damon about them and then seeing them on your bike I assumed.....
(assumptions are the mothers of all f*ckups)

No worries, I asked Damon for a price, he said around $500, so the SW-motech bars from Twisted Throttle were a good buy, if you hear of a better lighter and more powerful muffler (I want the lot) can you let me know.
Cheers Gary.

Great selection of pics, thanks Merv.

**dutchman49** · 1st May 2008, 15:13

Great photos Pete. Cant wait to see the rest 2 moro night. Thought I had been run over by a Mack truck on Sunday morning. 2.5 offs. The .5 was when I dropped my bike to escape a charging cattle beast. Well done to John and the team. cant wait for the next one.

**sels1** · 1st May 2008, 21:47

Originally Posted by Oscar

There's a Pirelli Scorpion 17" rear available that you can run reversed.

I run Scorpions on my Tiger, excellent on the road and gravel.....but stay away from wet clay!

**Transalper** · 2nd May 2008, 07:09

There's a choice of Youtube.com or Livevideo.com.
You can watch it embedded below from either or click the links above to go to the actual webpages where you get the option to expand the view to a much bigger playing window.

So it's like this.....
Name:
2008 Capital Coast Adventure Lost Episode

Description:
Wellington is New Zealands Capital.
26 April 2008 was the Capital Coast Adventure where over 200 of us gathered in Wellington for an awesome motorcycling more...adventure.
This clip is like a DVD outtake, not part of the route but certainly part of the adventure... for some of us at least who took a wrong turn at instruction #27

Both videos are the same just on different services.

The LV embedded version...

and the youtube embed...

[YOUTUBE]qLHvZcUFTQ8[/YOUTUBE]

**cooneyr** · 2nd May 2008, 08:15

Originally Posted by Transalper

........So it's like this.....
Name:
2008 Capital Coast Adventure Lost Episode

Description:
Wellington is New Zealands Capital.
26 April 2008 was the Capital Coast Adventure where over 200 of us gathered in Wellington for an awesome motorcycling more...adventure.
This clip is like a DVD outtake, not part of the route but certainly part of the adventure... for some of us at least who took a wrong turn at instruction #27.......

Cool video TA. We're damn lucky that you are into videoing the rides

Definatly worth mentioning that this is private land and it is not even land that we were suppose to be riding on. I'm surprised that that the land owner didn't come out and have a "chat". We were suppose to turn left after the next bridge to the south onto what is also private land.

Cheers R

**clint640** · 2nd May 2008, 10:23

Originally Posted by cooneyr

We were suppose to turn right after the next bridge to the south onto what is also private land.

Cheers R

Yep, that almost got me, as my odo was right on the distance at that bridge, but it didn't look right.

I was over-reading compared to the route sheet, I thought that as the course had been laid out on 4Skins 990 I'd be pretty close as the KTM's share the same speedo unit but I was always a bit out. Another thing to watch on road book rides is where different sections are laid out on different bikes, just when you think you've got it sussed the error will swing the other way & leave ya guessing again.

Cheers
Clint

**YAMASAKI** · 2nd May 2008, 10:57

Originally Posted by cooneyr

We were suppose to turn right after the next bridge to the south onto what is also private land.

Cheers R

umm, wouldn't that be 'turn LEFT after the next bridge to the south'.

Fortunately by the time I got there the land owner was standing in the driveway telling people to take the next track.

**cooneyr** · 2nd May 2008, 12:16

Originally Posted by clint640

Yep, that almost got me, as my odo was right on the distance at that bridge, but it didn't look right.

I was over-reading compared to the route sheet, I thought that as the course had been laid out on 4Skins 990 I'd be pretty close as the KTM's share the same speedo unit but I was always a bit out. Another thing to watch on road book rides is where different sections are laid out on different bikes, just when you think you've got it sussed the error will swing the other way & leave ya guessing again.

Cheers
Clint

I agree that it didnt look right. The stack of wood near the start seemed a little strange - I'd have though that it would have been moved if there was 200 bikes coming through.

I was a little short on the odo but only by a 100m or so not the 500-600m that it was to the next bridge. In the morning I was always a little out from the roll chart but it wasn't consistent. The afternoon was pretty much perfect though. Who knows???

Originally Posted by YAMASAKI

umm, wouldn't that be 'turn LEFT after the next bridge to the south'.

Fortunately by the time I got there the land owner was standing in the driveway telling people to take the next track.

Right you are, or is that left

- fix now.

Feel sorry for the land owner. There wasn't too much damage other than some missing grass but I bet it wound him up for a bit. There was probably close on 50 bikes when I got up there.

Cheers R

**YAMASAKI** · 2nd May 2008, 13:14

a couple of pics to add to the collection.
pic 1. how did that KTM get down there

??? rubbish tip challenge
pic 2. ah, theres the idiot who decided to ride off headfirst into the blackberry.... now how the hell are we going to get her out?
pic 3. Much thanks goes to the buch of guys who helped me lift her out of the newly created hole.

and thanks to John for documenting the incedent

thankfully no major damage, an 8 foot drop and only a couple of scratched plastics, KTMs rock

pic 4. perfect day for a BBQ.

**merv** · 2nd May 2008, 13:22

YAMASAKI what did you want go down there for? Priceless huh

**YAMASAKI** · 2nd May 2008, 14:07

Originally Posted by merv

YAMASAKI what did you want go down there for? Priceless huh

it seemed like a good idea at the time?... I like Blackberries? unfortunately they weren't quite ripe for picking.

**merv** · 2nd May 2008, 16:41

Transalper, I waited until I got home now to download your vid instead of doing it at work, and that is cool it was a better track than the right one we went up. I was following my GPS for distance not my odo and actually overshot the correct left turn and didn't turn off too early. Either way there were just too many bridges and tracks in that valley and none of us matched 4skins distance exactly I guess. A nice big arrow there would have been good.

You got any more vids of the real route anywhere?