Well done mate awesome especially when you were riding and the sun was setting, NZ is definately on the to do list, beautiful country !!! and sometimes its cheaper to fly there than other places on OZ LOL

 

Yea, was considering taking the tyre pressure down, but that would put me in a bad position for the ride home?

And I think I got better with the technique later on, would get going in 1st, then as soon as I had momentum I'd jump into second and get through it... starting off in second seemed to strain the engine too much...

 

Any decent bicycle shop has these.



Oh yeah! Stand up on the pegs and keep your weight back.

 

Ah crap! I have one! AND I had it with me! Just have it in the tool kit as an emergency kit...

Hmm. Shall do that next time! Shows me for flat thinking...

 

mate i carry just the same thing but hand operated it pumps up a tire up easy

 

we have a beach like that here in cali you ride on with huge dunnes. it wears you out fo sho. thanx for sharing

 

That sand looks like home...Aukland eh...post a google map of where you were at please.

Yup.....I never use 1st in sugar, rev her up to 7k or so in second and drop the clutch, get up on the pegs and drop third.....don't slow down, ya gotta be scootin to float over that stuff......worst thing you can do is plow it in first.

 

Anywhere near Mangawhai Heads?

 

Nah, about 200kms south, and on the other coast...

Muriwai:
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Looking at making it a weekly/fortnightly event, to get better at the sand bits...

hey, only need another $24,000 to enter dakar. woot!