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8 minutes ago, MopedNZ said:

Re: Motu road. Done some reading on it lately and it's blown my mind a wee bit. 

It was used as a part of the WRC till the mid 90's. The Motu was often the stage that decided the championship winner. 

Fastest time ever was Colin McRae in a Subaru in 1994: 37m 21s from end to end - all 47km. Jesus thats quick. 

It was so renowned in the world rally scene that when McRaes pace notes from the Motu came up for auction people all around the world were bidding on them. Ken Block tried to win them but eventually pulled out and never succeeded in winning the auction. Though when he came to NZ he still went down to the Motu and had a casual drive on it to take in the perfection that is Motu. 
 

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Soz for spam. Just never realised how well known it was. Nice.  Also soz for ranger. 

 

 

The first gravel road we rode on (Stanley rd) after leaving J5's house was also part of the WRC back in the day. I got to go to a night stage there when I was a kid, with my oldest brother.

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37 minutes ago, Vintage Grumble said:

The first gravel road we rode on (Stanley rd) after leaving J5's house was also part of the WRC back in the day. I got to go to a night stage there when I was a kid, with my oldest brother.

Man those were the days of WRC, i remember many a time running down a gravel road in the dark between rally cars to exit a stage. Back when they used to night time rally. I knew about the Motu but probably too long ago for me to remember being there. /spam

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13 hours ago, MopedNZ said:

PPSC just shoved mircrowave pizzas between the barrel and carb on their weapons. Such a great Kiwi idea. Approx 2 hours riding and your pizza is nice and dusty for road side consumption with either a super fancy craft beer or a lion brown. No in between, 

Midge lost like three pies off the cb hah

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RIP Irvines mince and cheese; we are poorer for having lost his robust mincy taste. 

my leaning tower haiwaiian microwave special was shortly dismissed after succumbing to the Stanley Road corrugations. we will be back next year with a 12v microwave oven mounted in a pannier bag powered off the stator 

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1 hour ago, MopedNZ said:

Re: Motu road. Done some reading on it lately and it's blown my mind a wee bit. 

It was used as a part of the WRC till the mid 90's. The Motu was often the stage that decided the championship winner. 

Fastest time ever was Colin McRae in a Subaru in 1994: 37m 21s from end to end - all 47km. Jesus thats quick. 

It was so renowned in the world rally scene that when McRaes pace notes from the Motu came up for auction people all around the world were bidding on them. Ken Block tried to win them but eventually pulled out and never succeeded in winning the auction. Though when he came to NZ he still went down to the Motu and had a casual drive on it to take in the perfection that is Motu. 
 

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Soz for spam. Just never realised how well known it was. Nice.  Also soz for ranger. 

 

 

I was a spectator on the Motu stage the year that McRae did that run. Awesome to watch.

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4 hours ago, TimShadboltfan27 said:

RIP Irvines mince and cheese; we are poorer for having lost his robust mincy taste. 

my leaning tower haiwaiian microwave special was shortly dismissed after succumbing to the Stanley Road corrugations. we will be back next year with a 12v microwave oven mounted in a pannier bag powered off the stator 

Buy 2 get 1 free tho m8

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