Contact from Glitch and the crew from NZ

Just have a call from Pete (Glitch) from NZ on their whirlwind tour of NZ
and you could here the grin from ear to ear in his voice

for those who don't know, Pete is one of the original Netriders from
aus.moto and organizes the best multi day rides (6 peaks, Beef'n'Reef) and
now the best multi-week international rides, details for this ride at
http://www.netrider.org.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4520

anyhow, all is well, but a drops a plenty have mared the ride
Rob dropped the R1 at lowest speed in gravel and scratched up the side a
fair bit, the peg bend back Ok and he is a little bruised but OK
Sasha dropped the Guzzi in deep roadwork's gravel, but the panniers save the
day, Sash walked away the a sore wrist and a bit of bruising, but all it
well
Goodie lost a pannier at 100kmh, it was picked up and clicked straight back
on!!
Pete is going well of the Strom
Nigel has come and gone for 12 days on a hire 650GS
Tim hanging in there with do problems
and Jimbo survived his 1 week before crash in Hawaii to have a ball.

Pete says the roads down there are incredible and they are all think of
seeking asylum to say over there, it took them 4 hrs of Reefton Spur style
roads to do 200km today and he said he was riding on the limit. Pete says
the roads over they just don't let up, one moment of sightseeing and you can
get in to trouble because the next corner is already upon you (and the
problem is!!! )

They are in Napier in the North Island tonight and have been down around the
South Island and are heading back down there next week. They have their
5000km!! oil and tyre change book in at Rotarua early next week.

He apologies for the SMS not get to and from them, there is a major problem
this Vodafone's Network there ATM

they all should be back on the Easter WE


Marty

 

Wow.

Sounds awesome ;-)

 

its John on the R1, not Rob


mh

 

We've all done that!

Ya gotta expect that when you take road bikes onto difficult stretches
of dirt road...and I think I know which road it was - I'm not
surprised. Wairoa to Rotorua via Murupara on the East Coast of the
North Island.

Feckin glitch taking innocents into difficult dirt roads - to him they
are easy. To us mere mortals they are bloody hard work.
Maybe he knows that now!

Didn't expect anything else! In his element.

That's no surprise - the whole place (NZ) is like that. With lots of
variety.

Think they're flying back on the same flight as me. Friday 25 March.

I'm meeting them in Christchurch next Thursday or Friday to load their
bikes for the return shipping journey.

FWIW I have just unloaded another return shipment in Sydney last
Wednesday and those NSW guys were so full of their experiences on the
NZ roads and the scenery that when I went to the Ulysses AGM with my
promotional trade stall I spent the whole week (7 - 12 March, I got
home from Canberra at 11pm last night) answering hundreds of questions
about NZ and handing out hundreds of copies of my paperwork to do with
shipping Aussie motorcycles from Australia to NZ.

The guys who started this storm of enquiry were 8 Ulysses members from
Singleton whose bikes had just arrive back in Sydney. They rocked up
at the Ulysses AGM and started skiting about their holiday in NZ.

So much so that I have increased the shipments to 5 ex Melbourne, 5 ex
Sydney (from 3 each) and 2 ex Brisbane (from none) all to Christchurch
for next Summer. Dates ex Sydney & Melb are matching - i.e. the first
shipments are the same dates in NZ and so on. The Brissie dates have
not yet been decided but will be soon.

Anyone interested for next Summer get in touch now as I expect the
most popular shipments (bikes in NZ from late January till late
February and late Feb till late March) to fill very quickly.

Kind regards
Dave Milligan

 

Must be my turn, someone lend me an R1...

Gary

--

Mark Latham, former Leader of the Alternative Liberal Party:
"My
message to the business community is that Labor is pro-growth
and
pro-productivity."

 

I bet the fall was worth it. This is the be best scenery in the NI, but
really DRZ400 country.

They're lucky they weren't eaten by the locals on the way out!