Category Archives: Memories
John and Hannah Go South, Day 1
It was inevitable that we were going to be running late. As the day of departure approached we seemed to be busy doing other things assuming that, come the day of departure, we’d grab a spare pair of undies and a toothbrush and be off. WOF for BMW on Thursday, Friday shopping for pants for […]
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Hawkes Bay Dartmoor Rd Trial
Sunday 13th August, 1604 Dartmoor Road, Puketapu Results Mum, dad, and I all got up before 6:30 am to get to the trial in Hawkes Bay on time. The weather was great; it was sunny but not boiling hot. When unloading my bike from the van mum noticed that the toe tip on the rear […]
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Ixion August Trial (“Top Pub”)
6th of August, 2017 (Sunday), Valley Road, Paraparaumu, Top Pub (bottom carpark) Results John Lawton came up to Hunterville on Friday and I went home with him. On Saturday we went for a ride in the Maungatuks. Sunday was awesome. It was supposed to rain all day but only drizzled a bit in the morning. […]
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Jeff Hall Memorial
2nd of July, 2017 (Sunday), Maugakotukutuku Valley Results Kevin Pinfold gave me lift down. I wasn’t very good company as I was asleep. I rode with Kevin, although he was riding A+ and I was riding straight A Grade. My favourite section was eight. I never cleaned it. The best I got was a two, […]
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MOMCC Club Champs Rnd 3
18th of June, 2017, Coppermine Creek, Woodville Results [Uncle Robert dropped me off at Merv’s house and Merv took me to the event.] I went across with Merv. On the way you have to go over the saddle road. When we reached the top it was like looking down from a plane or something, because […]
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MOMCC Club Champs, Rnd 1
19th March 2017, Carrol’s No2 Line, Pohangina Results Dad is always trying to get people to come to the trials events. Everyone says that they are interested in coming to a trial but hardly anyone ever turns up. The Bennetts were at the Moonshine Enduro on Saturday. Somehow dad convinced them to come to Sunday’s […]
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2017 Pink and Manning Shield
Sunday 19th Feburary 2017 (results) Hazel and Paul drove me out to the trials event but didn’t hang around because they wanted to have breakfast in Palmerston North with Paul’s dad. Everyone had to help set the sections out since Kevin had been at a mountauin bike event on Saturday and hadn’t been able to […]
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JRL
Sat 11th Feburary, 2017, Maugakotukutuku Valley It was a really cool ride. The only problem was that I didn’t get enough sleep and rode into heaps of stumps, whacked my handlebars on trees, and rebroke my back mudguard. I got some new boots from Brendan Wadsworth. They were a little bit tight at the start […]
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Learning to Ride
The thing that I remember most about the magazines of the late 70’s and the early 80’s, especially the American magazines, is the awesome multi-page advertisements. They absolutely fascinated me. Not the products they advertised, but the advertisements themselves. Great copy, great photos, highly emotive,… and aimed at a mass rather than a niche market. […]
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