cooper770 wrote:
I did wave as we passed each other......but as I was in the Cooper S, and not on my bike, you probably wouldn't have known it was a friendly wave to a fellow roadie!

Its the NZ Mini Nationals this weekend, the Saddle road hill climb was cancelled by the car club because of the slips during the recent bad weather. The cars you saw where doing a navigational trial which isn't as much fun as going flat out up a hill!

Matto did a 207 yesterday, he rode up to Palmerston, stopped to visit for 20 minutes in the square and carried on home. Surprised you didn't catch him on the road

were you in a normal looking mini or one of the highly modified ones? Saw a Mini Jem too, which took me by surprise. Sounds like we were lucky the hill climb was cancelled as I guess they would have closed the road? The saddle seemed extremely steep, but the gradient from the garmin doesn't agree.

Surely Matt was a couple of hours ahead of us? though he did have a lot of coffee stops.

Klarkash-ton wrote:

cooper770 wrote:
I did wave as we passed each other......but as I was in the Cooper S, and not on my bike, you probably wouldn't have known it was a friendly wave to a fellow roadie!

Its the NZ Mini Nationals this weekend, the Saddle road hill climb was cancelled by the car club because of the slips during the recent bad weather. The cars you saw where doing a navigational trial which isn't as much fun as going flat out up a hill!

Matto did a 207 yesterday, he rode up to Palmerston, stopped to visit for 20 minutes in the square and carried on home. Surprised you didn't catch him on the road

were you in a normal looking mini or one of the highly modified ones? Saw a Mini Jem too, which took me by surprise. Sounds like we were lucky the hill climb was cancelled as I guess they would have closed the road? The saddle seemed extremely steep, but the gradient from the garmin doesn't agree.

Surely Matt was a couple of hours ahead of us? though he did have a lot of coffee stops.

we used the Cooper on the trial, so Green/White Mini on 13x6 Rims with big flares. we were going up and saw you guys coming down.

The Orange 'jem' would have been the DeJoux. My Jems not road legal at the moment.

matt took his time heading back, and reading his blog think he must have stopped about every 40-50km for coffee and custard pies LOL. But he did really well, his first double century and rightly pleased with himself.

FLATULENTFRIEND wrote:

happybaboon wrote:

Klarkash-ton wrote:http://connect.garmin.com/activity/53993113

Hugeass ride!!

Huge bottom (sore inducing) ride.

I'm guessing Klarkash-ton doesn't buy second hand shorts on trademe

I did the 100km Rangitikei River Loop Cycle Classic out of hunterville today.
Its a stunning course.
http://www.huntervillebikeride.co.nz/Hu ... lcome.html
Nice cool morning, little wind and good cloud cover.

I lined up at the start and the guy beside me I went to primary school with. Hadn't seen him for 10years.
As usual I positioned myself too far back and with a decent hill climb for the first 3km I passed lots of people. At the top I found myself in between bunches and spent a few minutes on my own until the small bunch behind caught up. I was a little buggered from my solo effort and had trouble hanging on but recuperated enough to take a pull or two. The bunch grew from both ends and about 20 of us getting along at a nice speed but quite disorganised and only about a third of us doing any work.
About 2/3rds of the way through a girl clipped a wheel and went down taking two guys with her, big hole in her knee and one of the guys had a cracked frame. A few of us stopped to help. Buy the time she was stable and the ambulance was on the way all the bunches were gone, so the final hilly 35km were pretty much solo.
3:17 which I was happy with
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/54117823

Grabbed a sausage and filled the bottles, had a wee lie down under a tree and back on the bike for the 70km ride home. Started to cramp just out of Halcombe, about 500m from my brothers house so stopped for a coffee. Good timing.
The tired legs were helped out by Tailwinds, Gravity and a 10km tractor draft out of fielding.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/54117819

cooper770 wrote:

Klarkash-ton wrote:

cooper770 wrote:
Matto did a 207 yesterday, he rode up to Palmerston, stopped to visit for 20 minutes in the square and carried on home. Surprised you didn't catch him on the road

Surely Matt was a couple of hours ahead of us? though he did have a lot of coffee stops.

matt took his time heading back, and reading his blog think he must have stopped about every 40-50km for coffee and custard pies LOL. But he did really well, his first double century and rightly pleased with himself.

Yup, pleased with what I did. Was a lot slower than Klarkash-ton, but was happy with my first 200+ ride. I was home about an hour before him though, which is actually pretty close all things considered, especially as neither of us knew the other was out on 70odd km of the same road. I was thinking just before actually, how many folks out there have done a 200+km ride with less than 800m vertical. Only at 1 point did I exceed 100m above sea level!
Not so sure about all these coffee's and pies though....it was 'only' a 3 coffee ride, no pies, just a couple of bacon butties and a custard square. I tried to eat a Panini too, but to be honest I failed pretty badly on that one, and it tasted so good too.
I wasn't in a hurry, and 200km solo was a good challenge for me.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/53986232

Well done all - huge efforts all round

Guess what? My daughter had her first 2 wheel ride on her bike yesterday

Having just done a few reps up korokoro and mangaraki (me not her) we are now off to Avalon bike park

I now have a biking family

Flynnster wrote:Well done all - huge efforts all round

Guess what? My daughter had her first 2 wheel ride on her bike yesterday

Having just done a few reps up korokoro and mangaraki (me not her) we are now off to Avalon bike park

I now have a biking family

Thats so cool, it must be great as a parent to share such great moments and milestones.

big morning.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/54292651

big hills 1340m of climbing, 2 laps.Lap 1 the long TDM course Lap 2 the mid TDM course. Would have pushed on for the 2hundy mark but wind came up and I have a tractor being delivered this afternoon after 4 so had to get home.

Got out for a nifty wee lap today - Karori > Moonshine > Paekak > Akas > Karori.

Awesome weather for it, although the stiff Southerly made the drag from Upper Hutt to town a bit of a chore. A little over 175km, and my first proper ride on my new roadie... actually starting to "get" it now.

jeyboi wrote:Got out for a nifty wee lap today - Karori > Moonshine > Paekak > Akas > Karori.

Awesome weather for it, although the stiff Southerly made the drag from Upper Hutt to town a bit of a chore. A little over 175km, and my first proper ride on my new roadie... actually starting to "get" it now.

nice one

great trip, but where's the garmins, jeyboi???

legs were still a bit stiff last night, but did the KCC crit in Waikanae, solid pace and legs started to work again eventually, but not much in the tank for the sprint at the end, and tactically I was a disaster which didn't help

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/54472010

rode in this morning with a KCC member for a 'recovery ride' but gentle northerly was too tempting, and ended up hitting it pretty hard till we kinda died south of Ngaraunga. try for a recovery ride again tomorrow i guess,

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/54472008

Klarkash-ton wrote:great trip, but where's the garmins, jeyboi???

I don't bother posting them anymore as people seem to focus more on the numbers than the ride - which is a shame. I still use it all the time though, it's great.

I got out this morning before the wind got up, nice lap of the bays in Welly, then out to Eastbourne, and back to Karori. Nice easy 100km.

yeah, I understand, but I like to look at the numbers too! though my interest was in the sorts of cadences people do, and speeds up hills, for comparing how I'm going.

NEVER AGAIN!!!

Had a bit of spare time around the central north island today, and I just happened to have my bike with me So just a short 34km's with a bit of a hill in it.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/54614972

I will never be so bloody stupid to do this again. 6-7% not a problem, 10-12%, you this is getting like a couple of climbs I've put myself through, 15% yup this is bloody hard, 17-20% oh for fucks sake when is this pain going to end. 17km, 1000m climbed, and the coffee at the top was average at best.


NEVER AGAIN!

would have been easier had you not taken 2 huge bottles and an assortment of camping gear under your saddle... but good stuff.