Coromandel Adv ride 29/30 Nov

[ttrkiwi]

A big thanks to Cary and Paula...awesome ride and looking forward to the next already...
Man, my butts sore I have to do something with that seat of mine.

Cheers guys.

[ttrkiwi]

Today was my wedding anniversary and yes in typical male fashion forgot, got a bit carried away with things I guess...no room on the mighty TTR for flowers either...

[Phreaky Phil]

Hi Carey,
Thanks to you and Paula and helpers for an awesome weekend - really appreciate all the trouble of carting all the food and drink, etc, all that way.
Phil & Dawn

#1 First of the road works stop signs
#2 Chasing our 'fearless leader'
#3 Coroglen pub
#4 Coroglen Road

[tri boy]

Volty n scrambler both home safe. Fishing rod will receive a ceremonial burning for not delivering the goods.
Great weekend, and an awesome logistical effort from Cary, Paula, and helpers.

[Taz]

Crap photo taken on my phone.

Fletchers Bay

[Phreaky Phil]

#1 Awesome twister
#2 Is that a cool road - or what!
#3 KiwiBiker campsite
#4 The beach

[Cary]

Well it took a bit of doing but it was well worth the effort. The weather was perfect and went almost to plan. Had to put a bit of thought into what had to be taken with amount of food,beer etc. Think we got it almost right.

We had a couple of late comers and Iain joined us for the trip to Coromandel township.

Below is the fully loaded ute and trailer (cheers Andy)


Had quite a slow drive up and found a good spot to set up base camp at Fletchers Bay.


On the way from FB to meet all at Kopu Saturday morning. Andy on the 1100


Brent, Karen & Dino were heading direct to FB while the rest of us were going via the Tapu-Coroglen road. This is a quick stop at the Coroglen Pub


Andy & Rosie in the shade


Dawn, Phil, Mike, Mark & Iain doing same


Bloody rush hour!! The newly named 'GUNNY' Corner...........

Into Coro and lunch stop at the Coromandel 'TUI' pub. Neal, Rob, Matt, Andy


Then it was the last leg to FB. Rosie at turn off to FB.


More to follow............

[Tony W]

I am home in one piece too. Thank you again Cary, awesome ride.

From my door to back to my door 995kms, today was the furtherest I have ridden in one day!

Photos etc to follow.

Mike, my round trip was 1083km.
568km today via Whitianga.
Home at 5pm.
(my biggest day on the 400, 789km in 13 hrs )
Cheers.

[Tony W]

CARY.

What a f 'ng LEGEND you are mate.
The effort and the organising you and your team did was superlative !
....and the weather...
Great to catch up with KBers old and new.
Thank you very much for the weekend.
Looking forward to the next event which I hear you too are organising !!!!!

Cheers

[Taz]

(my biggest day on the 400, 789km in 13 hrs )
Cheers.

You'll be ready for the Rusty Nuts Grand Challenge soon......

[Cary]

Heading into F-Bay, magic magic day


Discussing the days events and trying to keep cool, the beers helped






One of the many local ladies, smiles all round from the lads.......


Oh yeah, work it baby, work it.......


A couple who had caught a few kindly donated these to us and were soon filleted(thanks Pete) and on the bbq.


Pete after the rum got the better of him......... must remember the magic marker next trip.................


Packing up to head round to Stony Bay, Andy & Paula(#1 helper

[snoop]

Terrific weekend! Thanks guys (and girls).

Cary (+ missus), you're the man. the trip was great and the location was top the weather the best what more can I say Thanks for putting on a good feast and looking after us all. Until next time...which is when ??????

[PeteJ]

Cary, our expressions of gratitude are no exaggeration; it is most certainly not just flattery. A mighty effort from you, great riding, fabulous scenery, and a whole bunch of new friends for me.

My fishing at FB on Sunday morning was unsuccessful, but I did better down the coast on the way back.

Stopped in to watch the last of the polo at Clevedon late Sunday afternoon; listening to the sports bikes howling past on their ways home from the sealed Coro loop. And I thought, "Heh, heh, heh; let's hope they never find out what they're missing." A bit of selfishness goes a long way.

[MXNUT]

Thanks Cary, Paula and Andy for the Huge effort u put in to make this ride happen.

Weather and scenery was stunning and i had another great weekend.

Thanks also to the tyre team ( Cary - Andy & Neil ) for getting me mobile again so i could enjoy the rest of the ride on sunday morning.

Did the family thing in Coro on sunday afternoon and got home just before 5.00.

Took a few picks, will post them later.

[Bass]

Into Coro and lunch stop at the Coromandel 'TUI' pub. Iain, Rob, Matt, Andy
.........

I see Iain is still taking the "ugly" pills

By the by, I think you may find that the sheep was actually a wether and so any of the lads taking a proprietorial interest are automatically Honda riders