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    If you were planning on riding The Forgotten World Highway...

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    So take a light weight ADV bike then.

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    but once again you proved me wrong.
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    Meh! Minor detour thru Ohura. No probs...
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    Quote Originally Posted by nzspokes View Post
    So take a light weight ADV bike then.

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    Need to be a lightweight adventure bike with a big tank which is toward becoming an oxymoron.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Need to be a lightweight adventure bike with a big tank which is toward becoming an oxymoron.
    Mine does 550ks on a tank. And is light.

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    but once again you proved me wrong.
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    I was hit by one such driver while remaining in the view of their mirror.

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    i'm 6 foot 2

    that's two measurements


    wait a sec

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Sichoe View Post
    i'm 6 foot 2

    that's two measurements


    wait a sec
    i didnt know thay could stack manure that high
    the detour would add to the trip IMHO i think we went that way once when i just told the gps to take me the most direct route to whangamomona from tauraunga

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    We are heading there on bikes in February, hopefully will be repaired by then ?? Or not??
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    There is an easy detour. No problem.
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    Ohura way is better

    the road through Ohura is better anyway. where the slip is , is the most boring part of the whole ride. Ohura has to be seen bacause it is a ghost town with the widest boulivard main st ever. I stopped there once for a smoke with not a sole about, and some tourists came along and just had to take a photo of me and the bike all alone..

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    Quote Originally Posted by mc4aregreat View Post
    the road through Ohura is better anyway. where the slip is , is the most boring part of the whole ride. Ohura has to be seen bacause it is a ghost town with the widest boulivard main st ever. I stopped there once for a smoke with not a sole about, and some tourists came along and just had to take a photo of me and the bike all alone..
    We had a similar experience 3 years ago. Parked in Ohura main street for a comfort stop and in the 15 minutes we were there, we didn't see one one person there. Reckoned it would be the perfect location for a zombie apocalypse movie
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    Why just a movie? I guess if you asked the devil for eternal life as the undead you could enter New Zealand First and replace Winston.


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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Why just a movie? I guess if you asked the devil for eternal life as the undead you could enter New Zealand First and replace Winston.


    Satin.


    damn.
    Hahahaha! I thought followers of Winston were the Nearly Dead

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