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’: […]
Christchurch to Picton, then Wellington – Thursday 12 March
Lucky again with the weather. No rain, just a subdued Christchurch sky. I’ve done Christchurch to Picton many times before and so wasn’t particularly excited at the prospect of the journey. And because I needed to be at Picton for a 5pm check-in there was a sense of just needing to get there, rather than […]
Kurow to Christchurch – Wednesday 11 March
Great news this morning. I woke to blue skies, sort of. Rain looked highly likely but it wasn’t raining yet. I asked at the motel about the road conditions on the Hakataramea Pass road According to the motelier’s husband all rivers on the route were bridged. This contradicted what little I had read on the […]
Queenstown to Kurow – Tuesday 10 March
Well, I wanted an adventure and today I got one. My plan was to do Danseys Pass into the Waitaki Valley and then the Hakataramea Valley into Tekapo. While getting petrol in Cromwell I pulled my map out and saw another track that went from Bendigo through to Omakau near St Bathans. That would link […]
Franz Josef to Queenstown – Monday 9 March
I rode out of Franz Josef and headed straight to Fox Glacier. This is the spot where two Australian men were buried by falling ice two months earlier. The track up the side of the river was shut due to rock falls but a new track had been formed across the riverbed. This gave a […]