White Pine Bush

Another little video of the three musketeers climbing up through White Pine Bush just North of Napier. Still day one of our trip - on the way to Gisborne for the night before pushing on to the first checkpoint at East Cape.

Apologies for the fact that the videos are out of sequence with our trip but I'm still learning all this video stuff and it's easier to start with the smaller clips.

Friday Night Ride

In between uploading videos to Youtube, editing photos and generally being lazy, I managed to attend the last Friday night ride until they start up again in spring. It was just a quick ride over the track and through to Mangamire before heading into Pahiatua for a drink break.

There was plenty of stopping for chatting etc but it was a perfect night for riding - cool and clear with no wind to worry about. On the ride into Pahiatua Meanie and I swapped bikes so he could have a bash on the VTR. I on the other hand had the chance to ride a Connie with a pipe and secretly enjoyed it...

So no more Friday night ride posts for a wee while...

Mohaka Viaduct

Ok, here's the first on-bike video from the Southern Cross. This was day one on our way up to Gisborne and is a set of delicious sweepers on the Napier-Wairoa road.

New Zealand Fur Seal pups

Totally un-bike related but anyway. A couple of snippets of some Fur Seals pups at play.

Southern Cross - done!

Got back home last night after 12 days and 6,492km of fantastic riding. The Connie lapped it up (as did Mark's Bandit) and the only issue is a stone in the rear tyre which will need sorting soonish. I'm planning a bigger write-up for the website at some stage but thought that I may as well start uploading some of the video we shot on the trip. Here's the first we teaser: Mark (3rd bike) and some other Rusty nutters coming out of one of the 15km/h corners on Crown Range Road.