Before starting the Hamilton 1KC for 2022 I had to get a new camera. My old Nikon D7100 DSLR was giving error messages that pointed to the body/lens not making contact properly and was getting to be a pain. I settled for a Nikon Z5 with a 24-200mm lens package. I wanted the Z7ii but it was out of my… Read more »
It is time for the NI800 again and a few housekeeping bits to be done before hand. First was to update the GPS with the latest maps (big error here). I noticed on my car GPS that the speed limits no longer displayed but didn’t really need them. Got the route on the Friday night just after 7pm and entered… Read more »
Due to covid I decided to change from the Hamilton ride to the Wellington ride. Being a virtual ride I could start at any point of the ride. The Wellington one went right past my door. Also, the Hamilton one covered a lot of the ground the NI800 ride did so did not want to repeat that. Having got the… Read more »
Time again for the NI800 and with covid threatening to curtail then event the organisers made a few different routes and settled on a southern route due to Waikato being in the zone. Also threatening the curtail the ride for me was my surgeon. After my accident in January my wrist was still giving me hell and an MRI confirmed… Read more »
Time once again for another ride. This time the Distance Riders 1KC Hamilton start. This is a 1,000km ride starting and finishing at Hamilton. This ride will most likely be the last big ride for my trusty BMW R1200RT. It has been a good machine but pushing 140,000km it is time for a new machine but more on that at… Read more »
Covid tried to put a dent in the 2020 running of the NI800 and while it may have put a damper on things the ride went ahead. This was going to another sore ride with a bad case of tennis elbow on my left arm. Luckily the BMW has a shift assist so doesn’t need the use of the clutch… Read more »
TT2000 time again and this one is in the North Island. Again, four mystery checkpoints, three of which I knew straight away having seen them all many times and in fact one I pass at least twice a day. The forth one, a church, was a little harder to find but find it I did. Planning began as soon as… Read more »
So it is the 9th November 2019 and time for the 1KC ride again. I took the Hamilton option and was all planned up. GPS loaded, New battery for my Hero 7 camera, Spot batteries changed (3 good and 1 low so put one in). Was going to get up at 1am and finish loading and munching and be away… Read more »
This years NI800 has come around again and as usual it seems to be when I am on night shift. It actually is on a day off but just after my night shifts so was hoping to get the route Friday at home so I could put it in the GPS and confirm the track it planned. No such luck…. Read more »
Time for the 2018 addition of the 1KC ride Hamilton start. 1000 kms in 12 hours (or so). This years was around the mountains sort of. Around the Coromandel loop anti-clockwise then down around the 3 big mountains in the middle of the island. A week out the weather forecast did not look too hot and the best outcome was… Read more »