One or two extra pictures...

A few extra pix, not in any particular order.....


Raukawa Falls on SH4 (Parapara Highway), with canoeists in the pool below. These falls are usually full width - we have had a long dry summer!


Looking south from Turoa Skifield carpark toward Ohakune - we were at cloud level. The wind on Dave's frilly bits was quite strong.

It was good to take Don's cherry, with a one day old Bonnie no longer new - plenty of dust for him to clean off now! An ideal bike for NZ roads.

Dave (fart) found a rubber band to tie up his whiskers. He should have tied them into a bun

Don arriving at Morgan's Grave on the Forgotten World Highway. The gravel was quite fine and the road in good condition (OK for me - I was leading heh heh heh)

Three wise monkeys at Ohakune after lunch - Barbershop, fart and Horse.

Spider at the Irish pub Waterford Arms. The Guinness was like mothers' milk.

When we left on our overnight ride we were pressed for time, and had lots of time (and reminders) to gas up before we left. Two offenders holding up the ride on Saturday morning....


Our travelling laptop geek, aka Gluten Head or Veggie, looks impressive having found a spot with WiFi!


The chilli just starting to cook on our first day. I was looking forward to re-heated leftovers, but her indoors ditched it while we were away riding. Pity....

Day 4

How do you sum up a Rally, a road or a ride? In a smile ........and today was full of them ~!

yup, up at Sparrows fart after a great nights sleep and wander'd outside to take pic's of the bikes on todays ride.

Kiwi Don's new Bonnie

Jazz's 08 Nomad

Johnny's 1700
voyager

98 1500 Classic

Left to right , My 07 Nomad, Barbershop's Suzuki vulcan 1200 <G> , Horse's 98 1500 Nomad

Spiders 800 and Pauls Dead Shark

sunrise and Mt Ruapehu

Another veiw with the cloud scutt'ln bye.






8.00am and it's a quick squirt into Taumarunui for Brekkie at Mc Donalds . I settled for a maggot pack and V from the Garage next door.

Horse and myself solve'n the worlds problems over a fag.



after Brekkie it was on to a road i've wanted to ride for a looong time and I was'nt disapointed~! In-fart enthralled ~!!

Go left.........

at the start it's easy enough to take pic's

!5 k's of Gravel ....but nice ~!




I rode at the back so it was easy to get lost in the euphora of the moment as we wend'ed our way thu.....from easy cruisein to ball's out all rolled into one in the twist of the wrist. truel'y a ride everyone should make sometime in the live's and with a clear day like today? You'll be en'couraged to go for that second~!

a stop to re'group

Nicccccccccce

NZ bush scence in full glamour

Horse

some fella.






Very historic site and look , I could sit her type'n all sorts of crap but really .....

read this

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and thankfully Jazz did the leg work for us and here...thay be~1



There;s Icon's and in Motorcycling in NZ this ones right up there~!

I'm not even going to try to speel that <G>

Jazz and myself enjoying a brew...Cheers~!

A little history

NOT a Tui girl but ......a lover'ly bird indeed.

seen at the Pub and later being rid'n

Illusional

Front to back? heh heh heh




next stop was  for lunch in Stratford

Sorry, no food Pic's as Horse had eat'n <g>


Spider mate , I confess..I had given your bike a good shake to see A/how good your alarm was and B/You running <GBG>....neither happened but might explain why your bike fugged up....opps

on the ride to Wanganui

as per

Wanganui and ducks , ducks and

A LAZY duck





Wanganui to Palmy with a piss stop at...Bulls ?

and our Host with Watermelon at the end of the ride~!



I think I speak for all of us in attedance when I say our gracious hosts Jazz and Rosemary not only provided us with food and lodgeing but wen't far beyound that in makeing everyone wellicome and in person to us all ?

offered freindship that was a real pleasure to recieve and hopefully return~! VDU-11 is now consigned to history but because of the efforts of our hosts will be forever treasure memerys and persnally?

I thank them~!


and as sure as a sett'n sun all good things come to ............

THE END\




fart....

Day 3

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Was an early'er start this morning with Kiwi Don arriveing on his New Triumph. Nice bike~! and today was her maiden voyage as it where. Could'nt have picked a better day or a better ride as we left Palmerston North. Headed to Colyton and before feilding we met Barbershop on his Suzuki vulcan 1200 <g> . Then on through Kimbolton, Peep-O-Day and Rangiwahia. This is a brillant ride though farmland with tight testing corners just before you reach for that next gear. Stopped and took a couple of Pics of in-part of the Mangaweka Gorge.

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  Looking South /Mangaweka Gorge

Looking North/Mangaweka Gorge

Pic time Mangaweka Gorge.

Less than a mile down the road we stopped for a bike pic at the Mangaweka International Airport <g>

Mangaweka International Airport~!!

From Mangaweka she's a ride up SH1 thu Tiahape , Waiouru to the site of one of New Zealands worst Disasters...In 1953 a Laha flow from Ruaehu crater lake took out the rail bridge resulting in 150plus dead from the resulting Train wreck.

now a beautifall stream and if we zoom in just a little...

you can see all the way to the Ocean...........

from Tangiwai it was but a short ride to Ohakune for lunch and Burger?

nah , Had a Seafood what-ever-ya-call-it <g>

Kiwi Don's Lunch

Then it was a ride up the Mountian via the Ohakune Mountain Rd , fancy that . Absolutly breath takeing and I got brave lol and took some pic's while rideing. Any Pic you can click on to bring up bigger...I think <g>

the short way down <GBG>

amazeing~!

and this the thiev'n basterds ~!!!

yer, gassed up in Ohakune then hit the whangaehu valley rd , to f ields track and on toKakatahi on SH4 (Parapa Highway)

bunch of canoes haveing a lot of fun!

Left/right...Me, Spider,Rob and Kathy , Kiwi Don, Horse , Barbershop, Paul and Johney on the end. Jazz and Lorranie.








Now camped up at National PARK  for the night . Roumer has it we are away at sparrows fart in the morn'n and 2morrrow we get to do a road I've wanted to ride for a very long time.


till 2
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