Westpac Rescue Helicopter Fundraiser!

[Nordy]

Hay some great looking photos there especially the busa

Thanks, there are more to go, i just ran outta awake to process them :P

[Laava]

Good on yous fullas! Shame it rained on your parade but that kinda highlights the dedication. Big thumbs up!

[dangerous]

the best group photo (with the wirly thingys)

nice showing you guys, considering the weather bloody awesome and that goes for us aswell just as wet but a fuk site colder.Heres our group pic... hell they even pushed it out in the rain and fired it up for us.

[Toaster]

Great to see it all went well, so sorry I couldn't be there with my broken arse bike and um... broken arse.

[Nordy]

sorta stop motion of the riders leaving botany

sorry about the audio (its all i had that fitted)

[Nordy]

nice showing you guys, considering the weather bloody awesome and that goes for us aswell just as wet but a fuk site colder.Heres our group pic... hell they even pushed it out in the rain and fired it up for us.

thats a wicked group shot

[TOTO]

sorta stop motion of the riders leaving botany

sorry about the audio (its all i had that fitted)

Yay I can see myself


O and the audio is cool

[Mom]

What an incredible day yesterday was! The weather delivered up some of its finest crap for us. We rode a hour to get to Botany Honda, some of that time in a hailstorm complete with thunder and lightning, we got rain, we got wind, it had even snowed on the top of the Mamaku's heading out of Rotorua...LOL. Inspite of that we managed to raise $1305.50

for Westpac Rescue Helicopter!

In Auckland we raised $930.00. Included in this total is $30,the proceeds of a gold coin donation bacon and egg roll BBQ that Botany Honda had going when we arrived! Yum and much appreciated too! And a very generous $500 donation from the team at Motorcycle Trader & News. Shane Solomon was unable to attend the ride (he has man flu apparently his words not mine) but dragged himself out of bed and met us back at the base to give his donation. Thank you so much MTN!

The Tauranga stop gained us $185.50, thank you to Lydnsay and his team at Bayride Motorcycles for their hospitality.

The Rotorua donations were $70. One of these from a member who insisted on giving and giving, at every stop. Big thank you to Bike Force for staying behind after shop closing time to welcome us.

Our Hamilton stop, raised $120. A huge thank you to Sue Boyd and the team at Boyd Motorcycles, the BBQ was lovely and your generous donation of $100 was much appreciated.

Our prize draw was done back at the Helicopter Base by one of the pilots. I am off to make a few phone calls now to let people know what they have won! I will post up the details later today.

An amazing result, considering the weather and temperatures on the day. Thank you to everyone that came along and supported this ride, you rock!

We have just got back home after staying the night at the Busa's. The trip is 45 minutes long during which mother nature let us have some more rain, blustery winds, a nice lightning display and then brilliant glaring sunshine on wet roads

[tri boy]

Well done.

[MSTRS:Me]

What an incredible day yesterday was! The weather delivered...some stuff.

Twere a mixed bag around the country. Ann and Mark, I really must take this opportunity to thank you both for coming up with this idea and giving us all a push to get off our collective arses to deliver something worthwhile. Wouldn't have happened without your initial vision.
A quick calculation shows that a total of just under 10 grand was collected.
WooHoo!!!

[Maha]

$9755 is what was raised yesterday throughout the country, a fantastic effort... Good onya Yungatart and MSTRS and the HB crew/Chanceyy and her team from the Manawatu/MyGSXF and the rest of the Nelson region Bikers/SuziQ and Dangerous in Christchurch/Hayd3n and Chi5tina from Dunedin....oh and US.
Massive day yesterday, riding in the worst weather ever at times. Big thank you to everyone who turned out. Special thanks to (in no particular order) The Busa's/MadDuck/The Stranger/Draco/DEATH_INC/Speedie/Luckylegs/Gubb/Zapf.
Busa Pete did an awesome job of keeping us moving, making sure that the 1/2 hour at every stop was indeed just that. We got to the Base at the time we said we would, even though it took us an extra 1/2 hour to get to Tauranga.
Botany Honda did a wondeful job with the B-B-Q , cheers Richard/John and the team from Botany, those bacon and egg rolls were a welcome first stop beakfast munch.
Onto Tauranga...its not unusual for me to take a wrong turn at times and yes it happened again... saw DMNTD at Te Puna and by the time we got into Tauranga, the big green signs confused me... and I took the wrong, all the while thinking '' come on Chris where are you mate''? he took the lead and got us to BayRide. TOTO did a bit of traffic control so we could U turn on Cameron Rd....cheers TOTO.
Big thanks to Lindsay and the team at Bayride, the toilet got a hammering I know that!! Coffee and food supplied and the weather had changed for the better so we took the Old Tauranga Direct rd to Rotorua.
Once in Rotorua we were told that it had been snowing in the Mamaku's, yip we are going that way Thank you Bike Force for staying open and once again, the toilet got plenty of use. 1/2 hour break there then off to Hamilton. Just over the Mamaku's the sky was black, and I mean black, not dark grey BLACK!... and fuck did it rain! cleared by about Cambridge but chucked it down again once we arrived at Boyds. The B-B-Q there was hit pretty hard as was the Toilet (AGAIN) Thank you so much Sue Boyd for generous Cheque and hope the Sale went well. Refuel at Ngarawahia BP, it looked sunny up ahead so on go the shades for the first time...what a waste of time that was, couldn' see by the time we got to the Bombays, that fricken' rain and dark dark sky, so up went the visor and I gave Anne my sunny's. and then I got real interesting around the Papakura area, the wind shear and hard driving rain made for very unpleasent riding, slowed right down to about 70ks at one point, maybe 60?.. Speedie jumped in front closer to the off ramp and lead us into the Base. Beers and the B-B-Q were at the ready. The Helicopter Crew were fantasic and the Cheque was signed and handed over. A few words were spoken by Myself and Anne and we dedicated the ride/day to Zukin (scott) the crew in Auckland were the ones that went to him. Those guys have a hell job (and I mean that in posistive way) and total respect goes out to them...
Should do this again sometime..........Mark

[Gubb]

Thank you so much guys. Had an awesome, albeit wet day.

Real sorry I couldn't spend more time at the Base, looks like I missed out on all the fun. Had to get home to the missus (probably has the same strain of man-flu as Shane, only... less manly).

Wicked trip. Look forward to it next year.

$10K is an awesome effort!

[GTR1000]

Thank you for your welcome on yesterdays combo Wespac Rescue Support / Cheesecutter Awareness Ride. A bit damp, yes. I took some photos and video enroute and at Westpac Chopper Base Mechanics Bay. When a bigger dedicated ride is organized I believe it is essential that we get TV/Media "buy-in" to our fight.
We can organize some spectacular footage at the Rangariri killer section---It's closeness both sides on the runoffs with gustiness dangers would suit a multicam shoot. Ideal would be to get some well known media type involved.This next few months is a heaven sent opportunity to up the ant. in the the public and political areas. We now have Public Special Interests venues for nationwide TV exposure via Freeview. This website plus media adds would get the interested people to target it. Relentless and climbing pressure on Govt is number one. Close behind that will be to get top barristers or Law Professors being interviewed on TV as on How to Sue the Transit and LTSA after the next Wire Barrier bisection. Ah la the recent law ruling on the right to sue Corrections Dep over that murder they contributed to. The Transit Dep need to feel a little heat. First, we would need Court worthy proof that we have supplied them with irrefutable evidence of the Barrier hazards . They are wily and arrogant. So we must close their loopholes. If a video production gets off the ground I can contribute HDV Cam, lights, etc---we would more for multicam shoot---they should be HDV 16-9 widescreen. I have pencil cam rigs that could fit bikes participating etc.
Lets focus on this four months.
lights,

[Mom]

Thank you for your welcome on yesterdays combo Wespac Rescue Support / Cheesecutter Awareness Ride. A bit damp, yes. I took some photos and video enroute and at Westpac Chopper Base Mechanics Bay.

Welcome to the site and thank you so much for all your filming and photos etc. I am the poor woman you interviewed at Rotorua...LOL I agree 100% with your comments. Count me in for any assistance I can offer.

[DEATH_INC.]

What a day.....pretty stoked despite freezing half the trip....
All went pretty damn smoothly considering the conditions.
Nearly 10g's eh...kinda makes it all worthwhile
Much thanks must go to busa pete (i think) for the rain suit ( woulda been a lot wetter without it) and Quasimoto too, who brought me one as well. Cheers guys
The support from all the shops was bloody fantastic, bloody legends every one of ya.
And all those that came along, and all those on the other rides around the country, likewise.
Good shit.