Rag Rally on a tank of gas

[Mark]

#3997

Left Whangarei at midday Friday on My 86 R80PD and rode to Auckland via Hwy 16 and Experience M/C Stayed at Pauls on the shore Friday night ,Bumped into some older Register members David and Alison Newman and Peter Standring at Pauls.Left Auckland with Paul on his R75 at  8.30am to meet up with Rob on his R75 at Papakura and carried on to Ngaruawahia to meet Yan on his R60 and Neil R1150gs, from there on to Otorhanga for lunch this part was a bit of a slow ride as the guys on the older bikes were taking it steady.Neil and I decided from Te Kuiti we would pick the pace up and leave the older bikes to ride at there speed as this bit of road is a great motorcycle road at better speeds, stopped off in Taumarunui for food and alcohol supplies. From here it was an easy 60kms to the Rag.Other members were already there and as the afternoon ran out more arrived all up around 30 members and most were on an older airhead BMW. 2 xR60, 2 x R75 2 x R80gs / PD 3 R100PD, 1x R80gs, 1 x cruiser, 2 x R1150rt 1 x  r1150rs, 2 R1100gs, 1 x K1600GTL , 4 Jap bikes. and Clifford in his carWe all had a great feed and a good night talking.All this on only a tank of gas each way with little to spare (Forgot to mention my tank holds 32lts of fuel) all up 1070kmIf you haven’t been to a Rag Rally then you should.Darryl

[Richard Kuysten]

#16513

Good to hear you all had a good time at the RAG Darryl.  A great turnout of older models too, some looking very smart from your pics.  Sorry we missed this year but we had a memorable run down to the air show and saw some interesting older machines as well as some stunning flying displays. This venerable old outfit played its part in the air attack on the ground troops.Some of the other old machines strutting their stuff:And the sun was so strong that they had to protect the surface of this old thing with newspapers.

[Anonymous]

#16514

Looks like you had crap weather down South Malcolm 😉

[Richard Kuysten]

#16515

You betcha, it was like that for about 8 days straight then some funny white fluffy things started to appear but we didn't see real weather until we woke up in Picton to catch the ferry.  The lady in check out said “there's some cover by the toilets” – yeah right, some shade cloth but it sure as hell wasn't waterproof.

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