Another big tour of the north and south island is now complete, 5600 odd kilometers in 14 days and some of the best touring Ive done anywhere.
We started on the 12th Feburary, the plan being that all riders would meet at nights at fixed overnight stops, make their own changes to routes to suit themselves, dive off here, join up there, whatever, if they wished to visit specific places, or to travel as a group, riders choice,  Id made requests during the year for any specific spots people wanted included, without a lot of response I might add, so I set a basic route seemed popular. I had assumed other riders would at least load the route into thier satelite navigations or at least take a map, but it seems only some did. So off we set riding from the north shore to our over night stop in Wellington.  Two routes in mind, depending on the weather either a straight SH1 run or basically zig zagging down the western side of the north island, no particular destinations in mind but rather to catch some roads I havent done for some time. its the ride thats important rather than the destination as they say  We stopped every 160 odd kms for fuel and Taumaranui for a refuel of riders and headed on to National Park and Ohakune, on to Waiouru.

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