Hornet Swarm Night City

[gijoe1313]

Ayup, good to see you doing what bikers should be doing ... riding! Ooh, now you should do that combo at night! Upgrade from real biker to real biker + status!

[Badger8]

Ayup, good to see you doing what bikers should be doing ... riding! Ooh, now you should do that combo at night! Upgrade from real biker to real biker + status!

Ooh, indeed
i must accompany you on one of your infamous night rides one day... err... night Methinks i shall wrap up warm for that one though

[zeocen]

I always just throw mine in the hot water cupboard, hasn't shrunk them yet :P

[TOTO]

Well yesteday had promiced to be a nice riding day from what I saw on the forcast on friday...

I woke up at 5am to meet GSXR Trace and MusicMan at a Shell petrol station in the city for a 6am shoot off to New Plymouth. I show up at 5:50 and so does GSXR Trace. We start with our normal chat about about various biker scum things but MusicMan is nowhere to be seen...

At 6:15 I leave sir MusicMan a remindful message on his voicemail and what do you know , I get a txt back to tell me that he is coming. So the three amigos (ok Two amigos and one amiga) were together and ready to shoot of at 6:40.

By that time it had started to drizle slightly and both GSXR Trace and I blamed it on MusicMan coz we would have been out of cloudy Auckland by now and staying dry...or so we taught.

Turned out that that the clouds were covering most of the auckland region and also going all the way to Te Kuiti...but anyway.

We stoped at Ngarawahea after doing a run on sh1 to reevaluate our situation and have some food. Turned out of MusicMan and I were completely drenched while GSXR Trace was feeling quite optimistic and warm

So mr. TOTO decided to put some biker thinking in place and got us some rubbish bags and some nice pink dishwashing gloves. Needless to say that we attracted a croud at Ngarawahea Bp petrol station who were watching us with curiousity, as you might expect people to do in a Zoo watching baboons in their natural habitat or something.

We incorporated those tools afailable to the modern day biker and proceeded our jurney on to Te Kuiti dressed in that sexy manner (See pics). It still rained but we didnt care - we are BIKERS.


In Te kuiti we were greeted by the warm sun which came from behind the clouds to say "Hi" and also GSXR Trace's dad on his ZZR 1200 who had come from New Plymouth to meet us and lead us trough his roads.

We did SH3 trough the gorge and some very nice vews were shown to us together with some gorgeous roads. We also saw plenty of bikes out and about. One biker on what lookes like a red RVF 900 was carying a pillion coming the other way and almost crossed the centre line while GSXR Trace and MusicMan were taking a bend. That was NOT COOL with the amount of head on collisions lately and people still ride like retards (read outside their limits). And that idiot had a pillion with him. must have been showing off. It is unfortunate that female presence leads us males to wanna try kill our selfs. I think its not fair

We arived in new plymouth at about 12:30 and we took the scenic route to Tracey's house. We saw the seal colony, the big rock with steps on it that you can climb on, also the anthena man and one old lady that tried to run me and the hooligan off the road...but its all part of being a biker I guess.

At Tracey's house we were treated like roaylties - super tasty sandwiches made from home made bread I was also given the use of the family's Chain oil for the mighty hooligan for which I'm grateful and most impotrantly I was given directions to the best rides in the region - hurrraaaaaaay

I left Trace and Musicman in New Plymouth and was lead out of the town By Tracey's day (what a cool dad) and Tracey's sister in law (also a biker and also called Tracey). Farewell was given and I set off to visit Mt Eggmont (see pics).

Some gorgeous road leading to the Mt. Eggmont Summit from Stafford - 15 km of super twisty stuff. Only problem is its not sign posted so every corner is a new adventure, but good seal and not overly complicated so was all good. Arived in the summit and discovered a gorgeous view of the mountain (well almost from what I could see behind that cloud) and a spectacular view of the land beneath. The whole taranaki region as far as I could see was very flat with no hlls which expplains the neck braking wind I encountered after getting down from the mountain and on the way to Wanganui.

Wanganui is a spectacular place for relaxation - nice river, the trees around it, ducks and swans everywhere - paradice.
I saw the ocasional boi racer but pretty begaved place. I had just put petrol and saw on my docket a voucher for domino pizza - and what do you know - a domino's pizza was just next door. I had a tasty pizza in wanganui and set on may way. It was then when I saw a Bike Squid on the traffic lights on a yamaha fzr who was keen to have a crack at racing me trough the centre of wanganui, but after seeing that I'm more interested in the older style buildings and checking out the Banana Bridge, he gave up.

So i left wanganui and took Sh4 to the Peremuremu(sp??). I think this is right up there with the coromandel loop. The views are fantastic, and the corners are all tight 45k. It is by all means no place for racing or veing an idiot tho because overshooting a corner on many places means a 300 metre drop down the rocks into the river, or what could be even worse , running wide and going trough one of many Cheesecutters and afterwords this being followed by a 300m drop on top of the rocks and into the river. a mistake on the bike on that road is 90% certain death. All that said, the views are spectacular and well worth the ride

Had a stop and a rest at Ruakawa falls (see pics). This is trully something that needs to be seen. The falls are not so high as they are wide and the noise is reallycalming.

Arived in National park at about 7pm and filled up some gas just before the station closed. the sun was on its way down by that time and was getting chilli so I decided to incorporate my biker wisdom again and dress in some fancy rubbish bags - one on the inside and one on the outside. The rubbish bags had written on them "Extra Thick" so that may explain some of the gorgeous smiled I got from female gas attendants everywhere I stopped for gas or a hot drink afterwords.

The road from national park to hamilton woke up my mojo again and those sweepers were a so great. almost no cars, so had the whole road to myself. Scaring catle everywhere I passed and hearing the echo from the hooligan coming back to me from the buildings in small vilages. 3rd and 4th gear at 100km sound soo nice on the hooligan

Arived in Hamitol at about 9. I saw a BIG rat cross the street. tarts right - hamilton has bloody BIG rats Had a hot water and a chat with a bike loving kids and set on my way back to sin city.

On the Moronway home I came up with an enginoius method of traffic tow incorporating rabbits ensuring no smurfs ever catch ya going fastish

So arived home at 11pm and having done around 1300km I feel happy. The hot shower I had when I got home was such a god given


p.s. Badger, we all need to go for a ride wearing rubbish bags. we will be know and the Rubbish Sack Gang and everyone will fear us.

[TOTO]

On the pics here is Mt Egmont.

Also forgot to mention , that all harleys waved and also waved first

Amazin.

[TOTO]

1. Ruakawa falls
2. under a long railway bridge
3. That si supposed to be Mt Ruapehu behind the cloud...

[zeocen]

Ohh, tell that father he has mighty fine taste in bikes.
ZZR1200 is pretty in black! Were you suprised at how well it could handle the corners? I constantly am!

[Swoop]

Leather stubbies!

Gah! I thought that leather chaps were bad enough for the Gay Brigade.

under a long railway bridge

On the other side of that valley (the Northern side) there is a 100m stretch of road that never sees direct sunlight except in high summer.
Beware, if you are around that area in winter time! Ice city...

[Sharry]

Well ridden and written your Royal TOTONESS.
That was certainly a day of biking escapades. The hooligan does look mighty alongside side the mountain.

[Badger8]

p.s. Badger, we all need to go for a ride wearing rubbish bags. we will be know and the Rubbish Sack Gang and everyone will fear us.

I didnt have the pink gloves on tho, i might not be cool enough for your brigade
I struggled to fit my trash sack over the huge shoulder on my jacket, i think i ended up ripping right up the back of it in the process. i didnt care, it kept a lot of water off

Ooh, musicman has the idea, trash bag UNDER the jacket why didnt i think of that?! i looked retarded enough with two singlets over my shirt under my jacket

[TOTO]

Ooh, musicman has the idea, trash bag UNDER the jacket why didnt i think of that?! i looked retarded enough with two singlets over my shirt under my jacket

Yes, he is a clever man - it was his idea.

Rubbish bags and pink dishwashing gloves are going to be in my arsenal every time i'm out and about. Tis some handy stuff those things

[Badger8]

Yes, he is a clever man - it was his idea.

Rubbish bags and pink dishwashing gloves are going to be in my arsenal every time i'm out and about. Tis some handy stuff those things

Yup, i stashed my left-over rubbish sacks under the seat

[Choco]

I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!
Whats been going on around here while i was lost in Taranaki?

[TOTO]

I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!
Whats been going on around here while i was lost in Taranaki?

Zeocen bought a hornet

GiJoe completed the south island and had many adventures

Tracey has a new baby

MusicMan is a food eating monster

Badger a fully licenced dirt biker

And I just ride around for fun like usual

[gijoe1313]

Right, I will not be on tonights swarm ride since I will be pre-occupied doing other things related to biking!

I know it's a hard life ... but I'm sure we'll all get over it!

Mmmm nice to have lil'ol'hornet back from his sabbatical with Maverick!