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Anyone else going apart from me & Whetu?

Meet at Karaka at 8am tomorrow for a cruise up the motorway.

Whetu - what does your bike look like? Ours is a red Cagiva Raptor 650 (I am the pillion) unless hubby won't get up in time and in that case I'll have to take my scooter I suppose.

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Anyone else going apart from me & Whetu?

Meet at Karaka at 8am tomorrow for a cruise up the motorway.

Whetu - what does your bike look like? Ours is a red Cagiva Raptor 650 (I am the pillion) unless hubby won't get up in time and in that case I'll have to take my scooter I suppose.

Hiya adodge - sorry I missed this post until now! Yes, I was on the ride today with about a thousand of my closest friends! :lol: It was an excellent turnout. I was scared after last year's small turnout that the earlier start time may have permanently affected the numbers, but this time it was back to its old spectacle!

My bike is a black Suzuki Volty (TU250). I just got a private message from someone on the KB forum telling me I should polish my chrome. I have never met this person but apparently he saw a black Volty amongst the throng and assumed it was me - and he was right. Not many around, apparently. I'll have to start behaving myself if I'm so easy to identify! :o

I like the Raptor. My partner rides an SV1000 and he really wanted me to upgrade to the SV650 when I out-grew my Volty but that hasn't happened so far. I still love my Volty. :D

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Yes he did! Huge turnout - 1000 bikes. We were about 20 rows from the front at Karaka where the start was and after the ride was finished we parked up and walked to the top of the mound and counted another 650 bikes come in.

Hubby says he saw Whetu's bike. There were only 2 Cagiva 650's on the ride. I never thought that there were so many big bikes in Auckland and it made ours look small.

Anyway $12,000 was raised on the day.

Great effort all round and a great time.

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Yes he did! Huge turnout - 1000 bikes. We were about 20 rows from the front at Karaka where the start was and after the ride was finished we parked up and walked to the top of the mound and counted another 650 bikes come in.

Hubby says he saw Whetu's bike. There were only 2 Cagiva 650's on the ride. I never thought that there were so many big bikes in Auckland and it made ours look small.

Anyway $12,000 was raised on the day.

Great effort all round and a great time.

Funny thing is it was the final rounds of the nationals at Pukekohe on the same day - so a lot of the serious big-bike enthusiasts were there instead of on the Westpac ride. There must be a lot of big bikes in Auckland!

I don't think I've ever seen a Cagiva in the flesh. I will keep an eye out and if I see a red one I will wave madly and yell "here fishy fishy" so you know it's me. :lol:

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