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1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Thread Started on Feb 25, 2011, 2:49am »

This is to take my mind off the disaster we have here.

Early December I made an attempt at a 1000miles in 24 hours here on the South Island of New Zealand. Not an easy feat as the island is mostly mountainous with only the Canterbury Plains flat for about 160kms/100 miles. I managed 900miles/1460kms in 19 hours. This was my route:
http:/ /maps.google.co.nz/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=214511498063819395849.0004964c8d175eff4262a&t=h&z=7
First go south from Christchurch to Wanaka, then west to the west coast at Haast, then up the west coast to Westport, then across to the east coast and then down home.
I left at 4am in the morning for the boring straight run south on the Canterbury Plains. Got drizzle when I hit the first mountain pass Burkes Pass. This slowed things down a bit.

This is footage from a previous trip on the same route.Once past the lovely lakes I got sunshine at Nevis Pass

http://player.vimeo.com/video/20237288

Up to Wanaka in sunshine. From Wanaka had a stunning run down Lake Hawea and Lake Wanaka. Took a long video that needs to be broken up in a few pieces to be shown.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/20238420

This is thru Haast Pass - pure magic with hardly any traffic. Just one twistie on another. Up the west coast I did not shoot much video as the time was marching on.
Enough for this episode. Until later - enjoy.
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Re: 1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Reply #1 on Feb 25, 2011, 3:24am »

Nice!

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Re: 1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Reply #2 on Mar 1, 2011, 2:21pm »

Here is another installment.

http://vimeo.com/20466812

This is the road along Lake Hawea. Just "undescribably" beautiful.

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Re: 1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Reply #3 on Mar 1, 2011, 2:53pm »

lol...your camera is so good , that my piece of sh!t computer wont even play the video haha..

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Re: 1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Reply #4 on Mar 1, 2011, 9:44pm »

I'm sorry about that. You can switch HD off by clicking on the blue HD in the right corner to help your computer.

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Re: 1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Reply #5 on Mar 9, 2011, 2:46pm »

Here's another 4 minute installment. Vimeo give me only 500k per week which equates to 4 minutes at a time.
Lake Hawea 2
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Re: 1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Reply #6 on Mar 22, 2011, 5:34pm »

http://vimeo.com/21361555

This is Lake Wanaka, just next to Lake Hawea. This gives and indication of how difficult it is to do a 1000miles in a day with no straight roads. Most of the way was like this. Remember too that the posted suggested speeds on the road signs before sharp twisties are in km/h.
Enjoy - just gave me the urge to ride after watching it again...

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Re: 1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Reply #7 on Mar 22, 2011, 5:50pm »

Beautiful country, Thanks Kiwi.

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Re: 1460kms/900mile in a day on a Pacific Island
« Reply #8 on Mar 22, 2011, 5:57pm »

Hey Fast150, Did you try starting the video, hitting pause until it buffers all the way and then watching? That's what I had to do, then it worked great!

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