2018 TT2000 - Day 1
Ok, so now that I'm home I better get a bit more serious with my posts...
Day one of this year's TT assault was a short ride to the ferry, across the Straits, a little pootling and then staying the night in Blenheim. But...
In the days leading up to my departure Cyclone Gita was hammering the stuffing out of the islands and coming our way. I kept an eagle eye on things and hoped for the best. In the end the cyclone didn't really hit Palmy (we had some high winds the night before I left) but it did hammer a lot of the country including places I was supposed to be riding through...
With the cyclone still hammering the Wellington Coast I went to bed wondering what my ride down to Wellington was going to be like. I needed to be at the ferry by 8am so I got up around 5 to give me plenty of time to make the ferry - good plan.
Even though it wasn't raining when I left home I put on my wets as I really had no idea what sort of weather I was going to be riding into. In the end I needn't have bothered and I arrived at the terminal sweating in my gear.
The first part of the ride was uneventful but I soon learned that SH1 was closed from Paikok to Pukerua Bay due to the risk (or actual) of slips. Trucks were also not allowed over the Paikok Hill so they (and the cars behind them) were parked up and backed-up right back to North of Mckay's Crossing - they were going nowhere. Luckily, I was on a slim and agile Super Tenere and I w...
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