Central Plateau - 42nd Traverse and Fishers Track - 29/30 November '08

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2008, 11:41

Well, the sun is out and it is a great day but I am sore....
Bloody and bruised...
More on that a little later.
I have posted some photos of the ride yesterday and you guys can have a look and comment etc.
I will write a bit more when the rest of the tribe make it back from the ride today.
Got home last night at 10pm, it was a long long but really enjoyable day out there. The weather was stunning! The terrain was great and the falls quite spectacular!

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2008, 11:44

Enjoy these as well everyone...

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2008, 11:48

These are the rest of them. Enjoy.
PM me if you want copies everyone and I will endeavour to e-mail them out to all. The ones of mw that anyone has, I will also be keen to get some copies.
Thanks once again for a great day, I will post a bit of a story when the arm heals...lol

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2008, 11:51

Had to include these of course!

**marks** · 30th November 2008, 17:15

Originally Posted by NZKTM

Well, the sun is out and it is a great day but I am sore....
Bloody and bruised...
More on that a little later.

Great photos - but you imply there is an interesting carnage story and then don't give any detail - THIS IS NOT FAIR

gory details are needed NOW

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2008, 17:23

Originally Posted by marks

Great photos - but you imply there is an interesting carnage story and then don't give any detail - THIS IS NOT FAIR

gory details are needed NOW

I gotta wait for the rest of the team to make it home, then we will get the photos together, sort out the truth, the lies the tall tales and start from there....
Yes, I fell off twice, but not the only one of course.....
I did have a fall that was potentially injury causing, could have been a lot worse but I carried on and we had a great day...
Funny though, as the day has progressed I had to have a sleep,

and I am sore...

Neck hurts, both sides...aches and pains...lol

Maybe I was a little concussed but didn't realise it. The helmet is damaged but not unuseable of course....I was lucky I had one on and I had put the sleeves back on my jacket....
There, some information but not all....

**Waihou Thumper** · 30th November 2008, 17:28

Originally Posted by marks

Great photos - but you imply there is an interesting carnage story and then don't give any detail - THIS IS NOT FAIR

gory details are needed NOW

It was a great day and I wish I had of stayed the night and ridden the next day with the guys. I had to get home for the animals and being a little tender in parts I thought it a good idea...

Pity you missed it but Steven, and the rest of the Welly guys, I am sure will be organising even more rides in the near future and I will definitely be a starter....

Oh, for everyone....

My Indicator is back on, the dents taken out and the tank has been sanded back a little more and now it is truly battle scarred...
BUT, what an adventure!

**Aslan** · 30th November 2008, 19:36

Home safe after a great 2 days - including Saturday with the Te Aroha Katoom team of NZKTM (aka Mark) & Brett

Brett on the 950 with dual sport tyres - seldom seen by most of us - his motto I'm sure must be 'colour me gone!'

Mark aka NZKTM get's my man of the match award for internal fortitude and resiliency in the face of adversity. I

'm sure he'll want to elaborate himself though. Key thing Mark glad you and that beaut KTM are OK.

Had a blast again today. Pics and ride report from us all later. Gotta tidy the house before picking my wife up from the airport

thanks all for great company - cheers Aslan

**Aslan** · 30th November 2008, 19:40

thanks for posting - gotta go clean the house - S

**pampa** · 30th November 2008, 20:15

Ok, I I believe everybody should be back home by now. I split on Bulls from the rest, saw Eddie on Otaki while I was having a fruit icecream ... well two

I have a few photos of which 70%+ are crap, post a few selected ones pm for the rest if interested

So firt of all thanks Stephen it was a great ride (my first overnighter) well organised and an awesome mix of difficult and enjoyable ride. Did 855K from starting from home and back ...

Second of all I didn't fell nobody saw me ... well the last time

yes ... but it doesn't count cause wasn't on the track

thanks again BM 'very reliable'

Friday
1. 2pm upper hutt side of the Karapoti - the start of the adventure
Saturday
2. fisher track - Eddie showing how to mount a bumble-bee
3. fisher track - Eddie approaches the gatekeeper
4. fisher track- Stephen approaches the gatekeeper
5. fisher track - Mark didn't want to show his magic to the camera ...shame
6. fisher track - Mark salutes the watchers
7. fisher track - Gerard goes over the landslide
8. fisher track - the bumble-bee evaluating whether to fly

**pampa** · 30th November 2008, 20:26

Some more pics

Saturday
1. Fishers track - Stephen over the muddy puddle
2. Fishers track - Eddie over the muddy puddle
3. 42 traverse - Eddie over the steep bank
4. 42 traverse - Mark down steep bank with everbody watching behind how it goes
Sunday
5. Somewhere in a nice very scenic gravel road following a river yes you gessed Eddie
6. Te horo - Peka peka - little bit of sand to the mix
7. Same
8. Close to the end Paekakariki
9. Bike clean, scott oiler re-filled (was empty).
(6, 7,8 and 9 je sorry had to)

Disclaimer: I'm missing some guys sorry pics may be bit blurred. Will do a second selection later on
Edit: Disclaimer II the big kaToom ... I only saw it when parked and everybody has pictures of the parked bikes

**Balrog** · 30th November 2008, 22:03

Great pics, looked like a fantastic ride.

Keep em coming

**Voltaire** · 1st December 2008, 07:51

Originally Posted by NZKTM

Well, the sun is out and it is a great day but I am sore....
Bloody and bruised...
More on that a little later.
I have posted some photos of the ride yesterday and you guys can have a look and comment etc.
I will write a bit more when the rest of the tribe make it back from the ride today.
Got home last night at 10pm, it was a long long but really enjoyable day out there. The weather was stunning! The terrain was great and the falls quite spectacular!

I'm jealous...if only my KDX had a numberplate...
Theres a guy in one of your pics looks like Neville the Triumph Sprint owner. ...but it can't be as he does not have an orange KTM.....

Signed Shayne....

**Eddieb** · 1st December 2008, 08:40

Originally Posted by Voltaire

Theres a guy in one of your pics looks like Neville the Triumph Sprint owner. ...but it can't be as he does not have an orange KTM.....

Hmm, funny that.

There might have been someone there called Neville.
There might have been someone there who owned a Triumph Sprint
There might have been someone there riding a loaned KTM

But were they all the same person?

**Eddieb** · 1st December 2008, 09:26

A workmate came up with the following info on the names of places we went thorugh Friday night.

Named by the early missionaries:

Atene (Athens)
Koroniti (Corinth)
Ranana (London)
Karatia (Galatea)
Hiruharama (Jerusalem)

http://www.waymarker.co.uk/ml/nz/ni2.html

"The road passed through a number of small communities whose names had been given to them by the early missionaries with a classical bent, and then given Maori spellings and pronunciation so that we had Atene for Athens, Koroniti for Corinth, and Hiruharama for Jerusalem, but how London became Ranana was difficult to comprehend!"

Simple:
There is no "L" sound in Te Reo Maori, so the "R" phoneme replaces it when making a Maori word out of an English one.
There is also an example of that in Hiruharama for Jerusalem, but he failed to notice that.

More information:
http://www.newzealandnz.co.nz/wangan...iver-road.html