A few weeks ago I stumbled upon an event on Facebook that immediately caught my attention as it had the words "adventure" in the title and there were pictures of motorcycles on the page...

Fast forward to Sunday and I was up early to give the dog a very quick walk, load the Tenere up and meet up with another local rider who I'd never met before and then making my towards the meet up point.  Rodney was the local on his F650 and the meet up point for us was at the bottom of Admiral Hill in the Wairarapa - the rest of the riders were meeting in Wellington and riding up from there.

Rodney and I met up early so that we could take our time riding the 120-130 odd km to Admiral Hill and take in some other gravel roads on the way down.
The ride over the track started off pretty good on the damp roads but on the descent there was a huge diesel slick all over our side of the road.  I'm not sure how Rodney got on but I know that I slithered around a few times on the stuff!

Riding around Nikau Road towards Mangamire my phone started ringing and when I answered (while trying to stay on the road) it was Colin L and after telling him what I was up to he decided that he was going to join up with the Wellington tribe and tag along too.

Before Mangamire I turned off to take Rodney down Kopikopiko Road - he hadn't ridden it before and I was reasonably confident that it was in good nick having just ridden it a couple of weeks previously.  As it turned out, a fortni...