johnnyfive

Oh yeah, thanks for completing the entry form with your wives/girlfriends/mums phone numbers, ooooohhh yeaaaaah

Entries as of 2-11-19, is in first post also. Not everyone on the list has usernames, they just have names, they even might be real people that don't live on the internet like the rest of us. Theres one that I know of that isn't on there yet, but will be happy at this number, please no giant influx of entries lol! @johnnyfive @Vintage Grumble @MopedNZ @GuyWithAviators @Shakotom @cletus @tortron @datlow @keltik @Truenotch @TimShadboltfan27 @WankBankA100 @BLIZZO @MaxPower @Dolan @Mitch.W @Tumeke @Tumeke's brother Brett @UTERUS @Ned @RUNAMUCK @Zeubin @Atex Lee Dan Shannon @Deano Mike @mark105

I'll see what I can do for ya Bart

There's option for fuel on day one in Taneatua, Awakeri, Kopuriki, Murupara isn't exactly on path but an optional detour, this place Londons Garage 1252 Old State Hwy 38, Galatea 3079 https://maps.app.goo.gl/3cDja7NJJLg1kRup6 , Ruatahuna, and at the Waikaremoana camp ground/lake. Day two, may only be fuel at start and finish. Day three is a little bit better, can post more accurately later. I think there's a post about this earlier on, good luck finding it, lol.

No form that I can see @mark105

Neat stuff. Some cool looking bikes at that ride. I might be a bit soft, but I would 100% choose an uncool comfortable bike for this ride. Photo heavy post. Drove around the route on Saturday with the dog. Where possible, probably going a little bit quicker than the bikes, average speed below 50km/h, in some places, much much less. Looks to be about 540km, and without measuring, I'd guess at least 200km of gravel, probably more. Te Urewera Trip by John Bell, on Flickr Somehow this is only measuring about 500km, and the start/finish altitude is a bit off. But there appears to be about 5km of climbs and descents. As you can see, some quite sharp. Altitude Te Urewera trip by John Bell, on Flickr There is a LOT of animals on the road in places, cows, goats, sheep, pigs, horse, dogs, a man with a drink-bottle-bong, plus more. Care needs to be taken. In places we're literally driving through a farm, cattlestops and roaming livestock. IMG_20191026_085406 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_085356 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_091924 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_090517 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_091531 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_092942 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_092945 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_114804 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_115114 by John Bell, on Flickr Plenty of places to stop and look at things. PANO_20191026_074059 by John Bell, on Flickr PANO_20191026_100147 by John Bell, on Flickr PANO_20191026_100219 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_100754 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_140633 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_105514 by John Bell, on Flickr IMG_20191026_105328 by John Bell, on Flickr Remember this sign, we're staying here. IMG_20191026_102404 by John Bell, on Flickr Not sure where I was going with this post, but oh boy its a fun route. Please don't get lost, its not exactly clear which way we're going at times. 2019-10-28_11-50-50 by John Bell, on Flickr

Hard tail, lol! Your ass is gonna be quite sorry.

Unexpired WOF is still valid, though vehicle safety and legality to operate on the day still falls on the operator, regardless of WOF status.

So a day later, current count of entries is 29. I have two unready bikes, with known issues, and another unproven bike in a thousand pieces, with likely unknown issues. Pray for me. I'm looking at doing a quick dash around the route this weekend in the car to make sure what exists on Google Maps is possible IRL. And to familiarise myself with some bits I don't know and possibly get a GPS trail. If everyone has better prepared bikes than I, we should still be OK with one support vehicle & trailer at this stage. As far as I know @Thphantum is still OK to provide this for us? Anyone else is welcome to ride/drive along, (its a public road, and we're not a group remember), but for my sanity, please try and have some self sufficiency/self awareness as it gets confusing quickly when multiple people are relying on multiple vehicles for different things. Everyone gets fragmented and/or lost. Anyone thats registered and is pulling out? Or anyone coming that hasn't registered yet?

I was just gonna get everyone to bring along twenty lousy dollars, for ease of collection/dispersal. Should cover one vehicle and whatever misc costs arise hopefully.

Iirc its hovering around the 30 mark. Can have a look tonight and get a more accurate figure

What's your concrete like? If it's not perfect, then just about anything is going to suck.

CT200 Auto-Ag?! What I would do for a tidy one of them as a daily. https://ag200blog.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/ct200.pdf

Maybe don't fly the union Jack on this trip

For comparison I used to get around 10l/100km in my NA 3L LN106. Similar-ish to the shusband vehicle currently.

wat

You may have trouble at WOF time, if that's something you do. And yeah most people kill 2 strokes, a couple times at least, then either get smart and go to 4t, or get smarter and don't kill them (quite as much)

Honda City support vehicle plz

Neat, whats it like running the rotary hoe? I wanna hear it loaded up working.

I have no idea what everyone(or myself) is gonna attempt to ride sorry. Currently at 26 I believe which is nice. I could cut and paste usernames in here I guess, if its helpful? Although theres a couple non-OS-ers. Will have to be tomorrow. Someone remind me.

Niiice. I just threw the tacho from that out not long ago

I love your dedication and perseverance with this thing, but I have one issue. Its one thing to maim and injure yourself on this thing, but was it family and co-workers now in danger now too?

Should be a bit of a laugh eh, looks to be about ~23 people signed up at this stage I believe. I reckon thats a pretty comfortable number, not too hektik, should be sweet with one vehicle + trailer at this rate, which thphantum has offered to do for us. Dunno if we'll get many more people what with accomodation being a bit tight. But if we need another that could be sweet man cheers

Does anyone know how cold it is there in November? I want to say surprisingly cold, but don't know tbh

Theres not a whole lot at all. I think it'll be a quiet night https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/east-coast/places/te-urewera/things-to-do/campsites/waikaremoana-holiday-park/