I usually ride through Aro valley, but I’ve done a circuit of Mt Vic a few times.

Most of the MTB tracks are new tracks, so I’m not sure what everyone is moaning about.

They’ve always been Torpedo7.

No, they were profitable before the buyout. It’s why Warehouse Group bought them for tens of millions, and sold them for a dollar.

They were a great store, very sharp pricing and quality gear.

I heard a tree come down on the ridgeline at the southern end of Mt Vic on Monday evening, I also saw the tree in the photo, which happened on Fergusson drive.

It’s been interesting driving a van in these conditions.

Yes, you cannot obstruct passage. Although I’m not sure if the road itself is considered private.

ML take if ever I saw one.

There’s really people out there called Weinersmith, huh?

Helicopters can autorotate, meaning fly without power, and the Jetranger from my understanding has quite good autorotation characteristics.

If this was simply a power failure, they should have been able to land just fine.

This was an extremely high hour machine, 13,000 on the airframe and 26,000 on the engine. Not sure if that’s significant, but it’s definitely interesting.

I suspect they’re just seeing big bull deer or a Wapiti.

I think I’ve heard about this dude, he’s basically a benign version of a conspiracy theorist.

I’m very much on the same page, pics or it didn’t happen. If there really was a moose population, there would be prints, poo, antlers, or some other evidence.

Instead, we have a number of sightings, almost always by people from areas where moose live, but no photos.

And I believe the fact it always seems to be Americans or Canadians is significant, perhaps they’re more likely to think moose when they see a shape, rather than a NZer, who would assume it was a deer?

I’m not sure if anything else will be made public.

There might be an incident report, if I have some spare time I’ll go looking for it.

And everyone else on that frequency, which would have been a few people if this was broadcast on 16.

The amount of new townhouses in lower Hutt is incredible, most notably along Cambridge terrace. Hundreds of them just along one road.

I believe there’s a lot being built along the river as well.

A sit on top is considered self bailing, so no skirt needed. The paddler sits above the waterline, and there are holes through to the underside of the boat.

It’s not particularly common, but mostly because beginners tend to be out on sit on top boats. Although there was a fatality in Wellington Harbour a few years ago, on Christmas eve, where the paddler had a sit in boat with no spray skirt.

It’s also good information for a sea kayak with bulkheads, you won’t flood the boat completely, but it will be less stable.

They would pick a new one every sailing, if that’s the case.

It’s also possible belching white smoke is the default state of affairs when they first start up, it had more or less stopped not long after I took this.