Familiar sound in the air!

**oldrider** · 16th September 2006, 15:24

I am sitting here reading through KB and there is a familiar sound emanating from the area of the local hotel. Dubh-a-duhb-a-dubh-a-dubh in multiples undefinable.
Yep, seems there is a Hog gathering going on over there for this week end, think I will go and have a look!

Cheers John.

**Ruralman** · 16th September 2006, 15:51

There was a lot of that noise around Dunedin this morning before I came home - just take the exhaust off your T/A john and then bugger up the tuning and you'll get it sounding like that??

**oldrider** · 16th September 2006, 16:16

Went and had a look over at the pub.

There is a gathering of HOG'S from Christchurch to Dunedin at Otematata this week end and they are just starting to arrive in numbers now.

Nice fine weather but the wind is quite strong, just enough to put a bit of a damper on the riding but it still looks like they are going to have fun.

Pics of bikes, here there and everywhere! Miles more out riding too. They say there will be a lot more there later on tonight. Thought someone might be interested.

Not many riders about, they must be resting up for tonight.

John.

**sunhuntin** · 16th September 2006, 16:33

cheers, john. more photos tonight if you can? lol.

went down to palmy with the olds today. stopped a set of lights near the warehouse...hear this huge nosie behind us...i figure its a truck and ignore. starts getting a bit louder, and i finally turn to look.
huge bunch of bikes...mainly harleys, but a few sportbikes as well. the front riders had a number of what looked like rally patches.
one harley had huge apes that sorta doubled back on themselves so the grips wound up at a normal-ish height. another had a maori design with maori words on the tank [ara something i think? cant remember]
must have been about 20-30 bikes...took off down towards wellington way, via what i think is pioneer highway. very very windy down there today, so i hope they all got there ok.

made my day seein and hearing all them...totally thrilling. just wish i coulda gone with them, lol.

**Lord Derosso** · 17th September 2006, 10:22

Originally Posted by sunhuntin

cheers, john. more photos tonight if you can? lol.

must have been about 20-30 bikes...took off down towards wellington way, via what i think is pioneer highway. very very windy down there today, so i hope they all got there ok.

Tell me about it. I took my flatmate up to Waikanae yesterday after lunch and the wind was about as bad as I have ever ridden it on the way up. We were hit by head and side gusts. Great trip back though. Stunning day today. There were a lot of HD's on the road but hardly anyone esle. And just for the record, no one waved. Like me they were hanging on for dear life.

**skidz** · 17th September 2006, 11:28

Originally Posted by sunhuntin

cheers, john. more photos tonight if you can? lol.

went down to palmy with the olds today. stopped a set of lights near the warehouse...hear this huge nosie behind us...i figure its a truck and ignore. starts getting a bit louder, and i finally turn to look.
huge bunch of bikes...mainly harleys, but a few sportbikes as well. the front riders had a number of what looked like rally patches.
one harley had huge apes that sorta doubled back on themselves so the grips wound up at a normal-ish height. another had a maori design with maori words on the tank [ara something i think? cant remember]
must have been about 20-30 bikes...took off down towards wellington way, via what i think is pioneer highway. very very windy down there today, so i hope they all got there ok.

made my day seein and hearing all them...totally thrilling. just wish i coulda gone with them, lol.

Yep, it's ARA TOA and they're a great bunch of guys. The boys grew up with ape hangers back in the old Triumph days when their dads were riding with apes and monkey bars.

**Virago** · 17th September 2006, 13:33

Originally Posted by oldrider

Went and had a look over at the pub.

There is a gathering of HOG'S from Christchurch to Dunedin at Otematata this week end and they are just starting to arrive in numbers now.

Nice fine weather but the wind is quite strong, just enough to put a bit of a damper on the riding but it still looks like they are going to have fun.

Pics of bikes, here there and everywhere! Miles more out riding too. They say there will be a lot more there later on tonight. Thought someone might be interested.

Not many riders about, they must be resting up for tonight.

John.

I rode back to Dunedin from Christchurch middle of the day yesterday, heaps of cruisers heading north. Got lots of waves and nods.

It got really windy around Oamaru area, it certainly cut down the waving.....

**sunhuntin** · 17th September 2006, 19:18

Originally Posted by skidz

Yep, it's ARA TOA and they're a great bunch of guys. The boys grew up with ape hangers back in the old Triumph days when their dads were riding with apes and monkey bars.

ahhh. kool! ara toa was on one bikes tank...knew it was ara something, lol. ive never heard of them before...made quite an impression on me though...if i wasnt into bikes before, i would have been now, lol.

lord derosso...yeh, was windy as here as well. fun trying to go round roundabouts...me tryin to lean one way, and the wind forcing my front end the other. i think its blown itself out now though....seems quieter now.

**Ruralman** · 18th September 2006, 21:06

Saw some of those Harleys heading home as I was taking kids back to Dunedin on Sunday - they were riding through some unbelieveable shit - rain, sleet, high wind. Just before Milton the cars outside temp thing said a miserly 3 dgrees C. "Warmed" up to 8 by the time we got to Dn.
Not much weather protection on most of the Harleys I saw and those open face helmets didn't look like much fun either - even with a woolly face mask