Southern Coast ADV ride (14-15 Feb)

**K slider** · 14th February 2009, 19:06

Mate wait till you see the photos, we were auditioning for Fulton Hogan.
fantastic morning { afternoon} ride great bunch of guys, everyone helped out.
Cheers Mark.

Pete.

**MIXONE** · 14th February 2009, 19:33

Did mxnut win the race?

**Howie** · 14th February 2009, 19:56

Originally Posted by K slider

Mate wait till you see the photos we were auditioning for Fulton Hogan.
fantastic morning { afternoon} ride great bunch of guys, everyone helped out.
Cheers Mark.

Pete.

Yep Pete it was a great day out with a great bunch of guys, I've got a few photos to put up.

Mark we started off with twenty bikes I think, and eighteen of us made it around the coast.

we didn't get to Martinbrough untill mid afternoon, so after a feed and coffee, myself and a few others headed back to Wellington as we were only doing a day trip, while most of the others headed off towards sutherlands hut.

onto the pics

pic one is at the homestead at Orongorongo station, while waiting to see if Marks was going to get that far.

the next four are on the track around the coast near the start.

**Howie** · 14th February 2009, 20:11

A few pictures of the shingle slide. This had changed quite dramaticly from a few weeks ago, and involved a bit of pushing, and track forming as the edges had been washed away more. I haven't got any good pictures of the first bit of crossing the slide as I left my camera with my bike while pushing/guiding others.

**Tony W** · 14th February 2009, 20:21

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at least 18 people turned up
weather looks good
klr blew exhaust seal head to pipe and started sounding horrible - couldn't fix it so came home to get DT - should hoopefully meet the others for dinner

Bart's oil all dumped itself out his countershaft seal - ended up pushing last couple of km back to Wainuiomata

so 2 down before we even got off the seal

That's a bugger dudes !

What's up with the seal business Bart ? Anything we should be checking to prevent it happening to ours ?

**Howie** · 14th February 2009, 20:22

And just when you think you are over the knarly bits you come across a place where the track has totaly washed away with a 4-5 vertical drop off to climb, so a couple of different methods were used to cross it one by going across a narrow section a bit above the track in scrub, and the other this method of breaking the edge away and fulling the hole.

**Howie** · 14th February 2009, 20:39

It was a good day out, a few things I haven't mentioned is another KLR needing some roadside assistance on the way, and mine has finally got some war wounds on it in the shape of a dent to the tank after over two years of traveling the back routes in the both islands.
Whats more I came home to an extra bike in my garage as my son came across the Marks and Bart, and offered storage of a bike that needs a bit of repair work.

**Balrog** · 15th February 2009, 08:44

Great pics guys
What a fantastic day, one of the best Adventure rides I've had to date.
All credit to you guys who continued onto Sutherlands hut.

1st set of pics, the meeting point

**Balrog** · 15th February 2009, 08:46

Bart has an oil leak and Marks exhaust pops a seal.
The rest of the crew meet at the start of the track to pay the farmer his dues

**Balrog** · 15th February 2009, 08:48

Payment complete, we start heading off down the track.
All pretty easy so far, nice track, great views

**Balrog** · 15th February 2009, 08:51

The track continues on, and then we strike our first challenge
(pic 263 where'd the road go? )

**Balrog** · 15th February 2009, 08:54

We all spread out, trying to find a way across the rubble.
It was hard enough trying to walk across it, and for a while it was doubtfull
we'd get accross.
Then one brave soul attacked the problem and the route was decided.