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By riderscornernz June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Motorcycling Adventures/The Good Stuff

Ride Forever Silver Course with Passmasters

Overview I have been riding for about 6 years now. In the first 4 years I didn’t own a car and I rode every day, rain, hail or shine. Clocking up hundreds of kilometres per week. I commuted every day and then rode on weekends for fun. At one point

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By riderscornernz May 23, 2017May 27, 2017 Motorcycling Adventures/The Good Stuff

The Hayabusa Adventurer

Jonathan rides his Suzuki Hayabusa all around New Zealand. Read on to learn a little bit about him. I decided to leave the article as written in Jonathan’s own words because I feel each story written by a rider has their personality behind it as they write it. You get

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By riderscornernz May 17, 2017 Motorcycling Adventures/The Good Stuff

The Flying Fossil

Flying fossil The Young Gun Wellington 1989. It was raining. It was dark. And it was cold. I felt glum that I had to ride in the rain. I had been looking forward to this for weeks. Hoping for good weather. But still, I was a little nervous at not

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By riderscornernz February 27, 2017 Motorcycling Adventures

My Experience at the Sisterhood Fundraiser 2017

Last Sunday 26th of February 2017, I was fortunate enough to attend a charity ride that really brought home the fact the NZ motorcycling community is a very tight-knit bunch. The Sisterhood Fundraiser 2017 was organised by a motorcycle enthusiast named Angela, who worked tirelessly in the months leading up

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By riderscornernz August 7, 2016 Motorcycling Adventures/Tech Talk and Projects/The Good Stuff/Uncategorized

Riding on a sunny winter day and some suspension adjustment.

Riverhead > Woodcocks Road > Matakana > Wellsford > SH16 First ride in close to a month! Feels good to be back on the R1 after so long. I had a few brief moments of target fixation and panic braking on Woodcocks road as I had forgotten just how much

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By riderscornernz June 26, 2016 Motorcycling Adventures/The Good Stuff/Uncategorized

A Yamaha R1 in the sand dunes? Yes.

Adventure and dirt bikes are usually the chosen weapon when tackling sand dunes. Something you don’t usually see however are sport bikes being taken anywhere close to such things. Just the mere thought of going down a gravel road and getting stone chips on the beautiful fairings of an R1

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By riderscornernz June 11, 2016 Motorcycling Adventures/The Good Stuff/Uncategorized

Raglan via SH22

Another “Must Do” route for all seasoned riders is the Raglan Ride via State Highway 22. This ride should be done early in the morning around 9am and by the time you’ve had lunch and Raglan and reach Auckland it’ll be close to 5pm in most cases! The road is

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By riderscornernz June 10, 2016 Motorcycling Adventures/The Good Stuff/Uncategorized

Kaiaua Loop, one of my first rides

This was taken on one of the first few rides I ever did when I got into riding. One of the best routes eve now. The Kaiaua Loop has some of the best scenery around and the hills have some of the best corners!   This fish and chips are

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