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Old Steve:
Getting back on my bike after an incident with a taxi a year ago and a shoulder reconstruction a few months ago.

Anyone interested in day rides in the weekend, or even a three day/long weekend ride Auckland/Kaitaia/Cape Rienga/Mangonui/ Auckland?  Or a mid-week day ride around the Coro Loop?

Gadget:
Oh to be in NZ, equipped with a bike.
 
Sounds like a good ride.

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Old Steve:
Godzone motorbiking country Gadget!  That Coromandel loop ride is just something else, about 200 km of wonderful corners, hills and valleys through farmland and forests, and sea views too.  Couple of nice cafes and pubs for a break too.

By the time I left central Queensland I'd had a gutsful of large radius sweepers joined together by long boring straights.  When I left QLD I was sitting on 11 points, you lose your licence at 12!

I had one traffic cop pulled me up, he was coming along a long straight towards the large radius sweeper I was exiting at 114 in a 100 zone.  He said he'd have let me off if I hadn't been accelerating out of the curve.  I told him I was doing a steady speed right through the curve and keeping an eye on the road not the speedo and his radar gun only had me increasing speed because as I came around the curve my velocity became more and more in line with him on the straight.  I even drew a diagram with a stick in the dirt beside the road showing how I would've have been showing zero km/hr at right angles to him at the start of the curve to the full 114 km/hr as I came onto the straight coming directly towards him.  But he couldn't understand vector analysis and I lost $110 and 3 points.  Quite ruined the day ride from Mackay to Rockhampton and back for a burger.

Anyone thinking of coming over to NZ for a biking holiday, I'm retiring in a few months so if you want a companion I don't charge much!

Gadget:
I drove most of the Coromandel loop in a Motorhome (Mercedes LWB van) in Feb/Mar 2015. Shonee got sick of hearing me say, "This would be fun on a bike. "
Every chance I got when I saw a bike conning up behind, ASAP, I'd find somewhere to pull over and let them pass.

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Bodø Glimt:
I did New Zealand on a bicycle in 1994.  Great when the wind was behind you but a nightmare when it was a headwind.

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