Kuratau Trail Ride

[Gravel911]

Went down to the ride on Saturday
Perfect weather and a great ride.

The main loop was mostly over farmland and farm tracks. The AA loop was tighter with rutted tracks and went through sort of alpine scrub. The AAA loop was pretty insane. Just some scrub chopped down with the stumps still in the ground about 1500 wide. This lead down a really steep hill section and then across a rocky river a couple of times then along the river and over a couple of logs. This was a real work out There was two AAA loops but we only went through one.
The main track was really fast top gear stuff most of the time. All the corners had nice berms formed by the afternoon.
I don’t think I have been on a ride were there was three ambulances in the car park most of the day. Saw some big crashes during the ride. Just think it was the openness and speed you could go. But there was plenty to catch you out if you weren’t concentrating or riding beyond you ability.

A great ride and will definitely go again

[4stroke]

barty5 and i did both days, today(sunday) was awsome, lots of wet stuff,a few offs this arvo as it was yesterdays track but the rain made it very slusshy and sloopy, but still bloody great 2 days riding, burnt about 30 odd litres of fuel over 2 days. deffinatly going back next year.

[barty5]

here are a few pics from kuratau from the sunday

[barty5]

and a few more that didnt show up

[barty5]

here they are thanks to 4stroke i even got to tasted the ride thanks mate

[barty5]

and a few more as you can see there was lots and lots a mud it was great not to cold rained all day sunday saturday was a good warm day. Lunch on sunday was as good as it is every year. We did all the a loops on the saturday gave them a miss on the sunday had heard it took someone most of the day to get through on the morning course (for the sunday) while checking it out in the dry on the saturday( we left sunday bout 330pm couple a quads had just made it back from the moring track so it was a good thing we left out the AAA loops.
And yes we will be back next year and those that didnt go you missed an awsome ride had it all.

[cheese]

Looks awesome, I saw heaps of bikes coming over the Napier Taupo road that I assume were at that ride. Looks very cold and wet!!

[4stroke]

here they are thanks to 4stroke i even got to tasted the ride thanks mate

hahaha i had nothing to do with that, it was all to do with the back tye loosing traction on a muddy uphill section and you happened to be behind the back tyre, nothing to do with me at all.

[Gravel911]

Thanks for posting the photos Barty5 and 4stroke.

That track certainly looks different than it did on Saturday, ha ha mate it would have been some fun with all that mud.
Did you guys do both AAA loops on Sat?

[barty5]

Thanks for posting the photos Barty5 and 4stroke.

That track certainly looks different than it did on Saturday, ha ha mate it would have been some fun with all that mud.
Did you guys do both AAA loops on Sat?

yeh did all the AAs and the AAA loops saturday but only the AA on the sunday in the afternoon loop never done thta ride with both days being fine reakon if it was could take half the fun out of it one of those rides you can count on being wet.

[theblacksmith]

I missed a good one aye - shit I must finish this trailer soon.

[cr125nz]

when is the date for the next ride looks like a good weekend away next yr

[barty5]

when is the date for the next ride looks like a good weekend away next yr

this ride is awsome have done it for the alst 3 years it is normally on around middle or last half of june while its still nice and wet ill post it up next year again when the dates are set