For those people who enjoy motorcycles from the past, and in particular the 60s, 70s and 80s. This saw the rise and demise of the large 2 strokes that many of us enjoyed in our youth. This blog celebrates this time in particular but also motorcycling in general .
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Eastward Ho - EOMR 26 Feb 2017
Well the end of another month came rolling around again. As the weather was so good, the decision was made to do something different and head a bit further eastward than normal for lunch at the Pongaroa Pub.
Something else that was a bit different was that Paul wasn’t riding today, but turned up at the meeting in his lovely silver grey E Type Jag, before heading off on a run with the Jag club. Now personally I’m a big fan of old Jags. Give me the menacing snarl of a hot straight six over the rumble of a bent eight any day.
After the Jag ogling session six of us headed off over the hills, Al and Bruce A on V four Hondas, Kim and Bruce S on 250 Yammies, an RZ and a TZR. Ian and myself on Suzuki’s, Ian’s big banger GSX-R1100 and me on the tired T500.
The general path was over The Track, through Mangamaire and Rongomai, then up Pa Valley road and turn left to Pongaroa on Route 52. Being in such rural surroundings we had to behave like sheep, with a couple of the flock breaking away and heading off in wrong directions. Fortunately they returned to the flock without need to dispatch the dogs.
As usual the food and drink at Pongaroa Tavern left everybody adequately fuelled up for the ride home. The general topic of conversation around the lunch table was what to do with a modified 2 stroke bike that runs worse than it should do stock. No consensus was reached but luckily the owner is a decent and moral enough chap not to take the suggestion to sell it on to someone else and let it be their problem.
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A great write up Rich and thanks for the photos Ian. Looking forward to be out and about with you shortly.
ReplyDeleteIt will be good to have you back :-)
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