Eastcapescapade 2021 November 12th, 13th, 14th

[Truenotch]

3 hours ago, HighLUX said:

Hows the adventure going for the medium bike guys?

So good. A few of us took the long way home on our way back to Palmy and smashed another few K's of gravel while chasing waterfalls down Turakina Valley Road. 

[Truenotch]

Also, huge thanks to John yet again for being so accommodating to everyone and organising another amazing ride.

It was super fun and definitely a different experience riding all the way from Palmy on a medium bike with a load of gear on the back. We had an awesome time hooning through from Hastings to Ohope via Waikaremoana on Thursday. 

The crew before we left Hastings: 

Up the top of the Waikaremoana road: 

A medium sized problem for @BLIZZO. @Pee Dubs had a similar problem a few corners earlier (vid to come hopefully). 

This is what happens when you bring a small bike on a medium adventure! These road workers were great chaps and helped us get down the road to Jan's mechanics shop.

 

Jan was very accommodating and opened the workshop for us to use her tools. She even had a selection of obscure spark plugs that included the right one for @iwanttobeamole's bike. She also let us buy refreshments from her shop. You'd think she was serving milkshakes with the number of boys we brought to her yard! 

Sadly the CB125T's run was over for the weekend with no compression on the left cylinder. John made the trip out to scoop up Murray and the bike. Thanks again John! 

This tyre only had a medium level of wear at the start of the trip, but that big block 250 rubbed the knobs clean off. Luckily John had a spare Kenda Trackmaster in stock, so we did a quick swapsy on Thursday evening. Thanks again John! 

With that out of the way, we managed to get cracking on Friday morning. This is another thanks John moment too! As he loaned Murray his XL185 for the rest of the journey. That's a more medium sized bike! 

XR250R in the wild: 

@TimShadboltfan27 had a medium sized issue in the closing moments of Saturday afternoon. All sorted with the help of @Duke Blackwoodand a few PPSC mincers. 

On Sunday I was very very hungover and didn't take many photos.

 

250 life is pretty sweet! If anyone wants to come along for some medium bike adventures let me know. We'll be doing a bunch of riding this summer and it's pretty easy to cover big miles over a weekend. I think we'll be back on small bikes for east cape next year though . 

[TimShadboltfan27]

Hell yeah a massive thanks to @johnnyfive for all your organising, accommodation and general GCness 

will dump some medium-sized pics later

[johnnyfive]

Yep I don't have any pictures to share or too much to recap on.

Thank you to @Thphantum and @keltik for your time and effort picking up and couriering us and our trash bikes around the wilderness. And feeding us. 
Thank you to those that brought and shared, hunks of meat, parts, tools, time, fuel, fluids (if you know what I mean ) , yarns, the lot. 

Makes it a good time when the inevitable problems happen, and everyone pitches in and its no big deal.

 

One thing I would like to mention though, I'd heard a rumour on Saturday night that someone from a group I'm not familiar with, breached the Waikato boundary to join us. 

I asked around a little on Sunday with little success. So if anyone can discredit or confirm this, I wouldn't mind talking to the individual.

[CaMpylobacter]

Unreal few days. Thanks again John and everyone else who made it happen!

Rode a 250 this year. Good times. Sore bum coz DogRooter seats are horrific. Quite interesting riding the whole way to and from the ride. Would recommend. Saw a whole lot more backroad nz than I would have otherwise and picked up a lot more bike handling skills. Trusting reasonably aggressive and soft knobblies on tarmac is pretty hard to get into but they're able to be pushed fairly solidly. Nice

Always a great ride. More or less forget about whatever else is going on in the world around you and just chill and ride. Love it. Meet lots of grouse people at the places we go. Lots of laughs and comerardery.

Everything was amazing. So many good memories made.

Even the dank as fuck te araroa campsite was lush. 

 

[HighLUX]

The tale of Jan the GC makes me happy, its good to know such genuine people still exist.

Thanks to J5 for a sweet weekend of small bike ADV adventures and the loan of the ever reliable CT110 to hoon for the trip.                                                  Its one of the weekends of the year I really fizz for and highlights in no particular order are

• BBQ meats
• Pink Pussy with a splash of PG
• Drinking hut and left to rot projector room at the TA motorcamp
• China Palace
• PGs
• Small bikes in big country
• Finding the limit of riding abiltiy vs CT improving over 3 days riding
• Horse attached to a cars towbar on a main highway taking it for a walk
• Boomer on harley trike running over his own helmet

[Truenotch]

14 minutes ago, HighLUX said:

• Pink Pussy with a splash of PG
• Drinking hut and left to rot projector room at the TA motorcamp
• Horse attached to a cars towbar on a main highway taking it for a walk
• Boomer on harley trike running over his own helmet

Just IRL lols remembering these things. That boomer didn't even seem to care about running over that helmet!

[anglia4]

10 hours ago, Truenotch said:

Just IRL lols remembering these things. That boomer didn't even seem to care about running over that helmet!

Pretty sure it was his wife's. 

She must be well insured.

[anglia4]

Ohope turned it on for us on Thursday

Motu:

@Itchybear was lucky enough to find the only Hilux in gizzy that didn’t have a bull bar on it.

Te Araroa:

That’s the highlights package off my phone. @MopedNZ I’ll get my GoPro back today and start seeing if I got anything remotely decent for you. I definitely didn’t get as much as other years, but I think I got you have some good moments haha

[anglia4]

Oh yeah, and @Mitch.W tried to throw his bike down a bank on the Motu

[Thphantum]

No pics from me but a big thank you to John for putting this on. 

Great bikes

Great people

Great adventure

 

Definately would trade again.

[Mop Head]

Just got sent this. Sums up the ride perfectly. 

[Itchybear]

Here’s my shit footage in case @MopedNZ decides I’m way too shit a cameraman and just deletes it all. Really needs a commentary voice over.

 

[Mop Head]

Hooked straight into editing when I got home. This is the first part so far. Will either make this public on Thursday night or throw up a slightly different version. Currently an unlisted upload.

Too much cool stuff for one video. 

[Pee Dubs]

Wow, cherry popped, but I will definitely trade again! Pink pussies were as good as the hype!

Big thanks to @johnnyfive and the support crew.

Medium bike was a bit too much for me on the trip up through Waikaremoana. Enjoy! 

 

[Mop Head]

 

[Mop Head]

Yoza 420. 
 

 

[Mop Head]

Alright done. End of thread spam. Part two will be next weeks release and part three will be the week after. Can view with the link anytime before then. 
 

 

[johnnyfive]

On 15/11/2021 at 21:49, johnnyfive said:

One thing I would like to mention though, I'd heard a rumour on Saturday night that someone from a group I'm not familiar with, breached the Waikato boundary to join us. 

I asked around a little on Sunday with little success. So if anyone can discredit or confirm this, I wouldn't mind talking to the individual.

I forgot to readdress this. 

I did speak to the individual last week, and from what he'd explained, was that he was residing outside of the Waikato boundary, but had travelled to his personal property inside the Waikato boundary to tend to it, adhering to whatever rules or permits applied at that time (I don't know).

Probably redundant now regardless, as I understand there is no Waikato boundary any longer? 

I'm unsure if anyone was particularly concerned by this whole thing or not, but there it is, as I know it anyway.

[anglia4]

I don't often remember my dreams when I wake up. But last night was a good one.

It was the east cape ride. My GT50 was running like shit and I'd been fucking about with my gopro, so I was late to the lunch stop. When I finally got there, @HighLUX had shot a deer and was cooking it over an open fire on the side of the road. For some reason it tasted fucking awful.

Weird dream, but its got me pumped for this November