Holy shit!
These guys have big balls, OR, they are simply too mad to realise that one false move and it could be over.
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Pre-cursor to ‘rusty nuts’
Bloody hell – my body aches, and it all has to do with rusty nuts. Not those rusty nuts. These rusty nuts…the Rusty Nuts Grand Challenge – 1,000 miles in 24 hours on a motorbike – scheduled in my calendar for the last weekend in October. There are two training regime techniques for this ‘event’: […]
Boat building – the Flying Saucer #1
I’m an excited man. I received the plans from Glen-L Marine yesterday for my next boat – a 12′ 3″ runabout called a Flying Saucer. The plans, let alone the boat, are a thing of beauty. It’s all printed on blueprint paper, so there’s a warning attached to not expose the plans to extended sunlight […]
Snow in Ngaio – worst dump of snow in decades
Video by Alan Doak Shot on an iPhone 4 over a one hour period.
Rusty Nuts Grand Challenge 2010 #2
The route was posted on the kitchen wall of the Turangi campground. It looked daunting. The hand-out of notes condensed the route down to a paragraph per stage – reading it this way appeared much more achievable. I headed off to the supermarket to buy supplies. Having never done a Challenge before I had no […]
Rusty Nuts Grand Challenge 2010
OK, so it’s official – I’m mad! I signed up for the Grand Challenge a couple of months ago thinking this was a great idea – now I’ve seen the route and I’m not so sure. The Grand Challenge involves riding 1000 miles (that’s 1600 km) in 24 hours or less. And what do you […]