Ride/Stayover LABOUR WEEKEND - Up to the Cape & Back!

[Grahameeboy]

No more sleeps have a good weekend guys and watch out for cages with caravans and trailers

Oh...we staying at motor camp so will be surrounded by them.....a few chains, nails in tyres will keep roads safe eh....he he

[Maha]

Bit of sunshine breaking thru' up this way and a patch of blue sky......
Have a good ride people it still looks gloomy out west from here but the is doing its best for ya.....

[SN4PD]

It was a bloody good ride up here, DMNTD gave me the learn coming up from Dargaville and I managed to get the fairing down on those nice norfland corners

Unfortunately I also managed to get the fairing down on the way back from dinner, will be nursing the bike back to Auckland

Photos at http://209.123.183.117/liam/NorfStayover/

[crashe]

Great pics of the ride up there....

But whose tyre and whose boots were they on page 3.......

I see there was a bit of mechanical repairs on the way....

Glad to see everyone made it up there.

Look forward to the rest of the pics that come in afterwards.

[SixPackBack]

Did a Norfland ride yesterday. SH16 up SH1 to Kiatia then through the Mangamuka gorge and onto the Rawene car ferry, through the waipuo [sp?] forrest through Dargaville and back down SH1 and then SH16. 711kms in one day.
Set out with no destination in mind vaguely aware I might bump into you guys, alas it was not to be......
Its 3.30 and I am still totally wired, my ears are ringing and all my minds eye can see is road.
Hope your weekend was as good as mine.

[Scorpygirl]

Hi all

Well we are back safe and sound from the Norfland ride. We had a blast of a weekend, inspite of not doing any riding yesterday. We decided to have a lazy day round camp and walking on the beach. Thanks to the QKs for the organisation!!! You are legends!! . I will let others tell the stories as needs be but I did behave!! Just remember folks if you stay at this camp there is no noise after 11 pm or the Camp Kommandant will get very grumpy indeed!!!

Caught up with Cowboyz and Meanie at the camp late yesterday afternoon as well as three other Ulybods doing the four points rally.

We came back down SH1 and then turned off onto SH16. The traffic was at a standstill even north of Wellsford by 1 pm. It poured down on us on SH16 but good wet weather gear gave us protection.

All in all a top weekend!! It was great to meet up and spend time with some awesome KBers too. Thanks everybody.

[Rhino]

Well Scorpygirl and I went on the Northland Weekend and had a ball. A very well organised ride up on Saturday, with a good food stop in Dargaville and naturally a wait at the Rawene Pub for the Ferry.

Saturday evening everyone got into party mode and had a good time.

Sunday dawned and those who felt like a ride went up to the Cape. Some of us more mature (Old farts) decided that a sleep in a and a stroll along 90 mile beach was a better idea.

The Sunday evening lamb on the spit dinner was excellent and worth the money.

When I went in to the restaurant to buy a bottle of wine at around 8:40, I was asked to "make sure that they don't go on too long" (a reference to the 4:30 am finish on Sunday morning.) Not sure why I got the job, maybe because they thought the group would listen to a white haired old fella. Yeah Right!!!! Everyone did turn in early in preparation for the Ride home this morning.

Many thanks to the Qcks for organising a wonderful weekend. Hope that Scorpygirl and I can partake of many more.

[geoffm]

A damn good weekend, especially Sunday up to the Cape, and lamb dinner that night.
Geoff

[Grahameeboy]

Did a Norfland ride yesterday. SH16 up SH1 to Kiatia then through the Mangamuka gorge and onto the Rawene car ferry, through the waipuo [sp?] forrest through Dargaville and back down SH1 and then SH16. 711kms in one day.
Set out with no destination in mind vaguely aware I might bump into you guys, alas it was not to be......
Its 3.30 and I am still totally wired, my ears are ringing and all my minds eye can see is road.
Hope your weekend was as good as mine.

better Mr SPB.....1200Ks in 3 days..wicked

[Qkchk:Me]

Let the stories begin .......... Whos firstWhat a weekend beautifull weather great roads i dont know about the company
For all those that came thanks and see ya next time maybe............

[Qkkid]

Whoopsy ...... That was me posing as Qkchk anyway me bikes fucked i ran outta clutch Its up with the northland crew (Whangarei) gettin a new clutch woohoo I have no idea how dat happened
Thanks for the great turn out and the weekend Steve and Dawn

[SN4PD]

Well, it was fuckin cold, wet, windy, and pouring down, visibility was crap and the roads were like ice, and to top it all off my gate opener went on the blink, had to scale the fence in my soaked gimp suit to get in

Aside from that it was a great weekend guys, really enjoyed it

Thanks Qkchk & QK Kid for organising the ride.

Big thanks to geoffm for dismantling my bike and doing a much better job at keeping the oil in than I did, couldn’t have made it home without you

Once again thanks’ for the hospitality DMNTD & Duc-Gurl, will see you next weekend

Great so see some old faces and meet some new ones, will definitely be back up that way again! (Thanks for putting up with me guys )

[SN4PD]

But whose tyre and whose boots were they on page 3.......
I see there was a bit of mechanical repairs on the way....

I can take credit for the boots, they are now much worse than the pictures (though you should see DMNTD's ones), and yes my GPR70's now come in a Spearmint flavour

And it wouldn’t be a KB ride without at least one trip to repco

[Unit:Me]

Great weekend guys, with some really good rides over the weekend. I know I did nearly 800ks, and we're in Whangarei, so you Aucklanders must have done a fair few miles. Toasted my back tyre finally, but Ive got nearly 7,000ks out of it (not like some people I know ). Was good to bump into other KBers who just happened to be up North as well, thanks for introducing yourselves and joining us for a few.
Company was great, but why do the nabours always have to complain? Thanks the Quicks its a good annual ride.

[Meanie]

Bloody good to catch up with you guys up there you look like you were havin a good time (especialy the night before)
We got home with no probs, took about 13 hours with comfort, fuel and lunch stops and it pissed down all the way home apart from about 30 mins around Ohakune
Had a blast with auckland traffic between whangarei and the Auckland motorway, got a lot of friendly Auckland waves, a little stange though waving with one finger
the old guy that stayed at the motor camp with his old triumph had a tripple bypass only a few weeks ago you wouldnt know it the way he dealt to that traffic
Very impressed with the array of sports bikes lined up at the camp almost makes me wanna go out and buy one