Another Sunday arrives and it’s a club ride day 28th May. The weather looks foggy to start, but where there is fog the day will turn out fine and so it did.

I loaded some of the new formula Shell into the tank and clicked the trip meter. I have run the 1200rt on 91 for a few tanks, but man the 95 is so much better. The bike performs great and for those that want to save a dollar and it’s only about a dollar you are saving, you are missing the great performance of the RT and the new 1200 engine.

We had the first K1200GT turn up for the ride, but Peter decided to keep the demo bike in Auckland for the weekend. We did have a great turn out of K1200s and RT’s and there was also the odd GS.

The weather on our ride to Matarangi was great not too hot and not too cold. Jim on his 1200gs lead the ride to lunch, and what a great setting we had at our lunch stop, right on the 18th green. Another group of BMWOR club members rode the opposite way around the Coramandel to Matarangi and were waiting for us at the lunch stop. We arrived and the table was all set up for us all. The meal and staff were great. We could have stayed there all afternoon having a few drinks and looking at the great view, but it soon was time to go as we still had around 220kms to get home.

Dave on his k1200s lead the ride back down the coast in blue sky and me thinking I have over dressed for this ride as I heated up.

We arrived back in Auckland with only one 5 minute shower on the ride and 440k’s on the RT. The reserve light was not showing so this bike could do 500k’s no troubles at all.