On-Yer-Bike On Yer Bike is approximately 5 kilometres north of Greymouth. It is a tourist business which gives rides on quad bikes through some typical West Coast native forest. The company began in 1997 by Mike and Sue Roper. Before the business Mike Roper was a taxi driver around Greymouth. The adventure business is recommended by previous visitors as featured on tripadvisor. The farm where the business is situated has been around the Roper family since 1917 when Micheal's grandparents, Charles and Violet moved to the area. During the 1960s and 70s Micheal's parents ran a chicken farm but this ended in 1978 when new regulations made the business enterprise non-viable. Cattle and sheep have always been the main farm operations and still is, albeit a small part these days thinking about the success of the quad bike business. During your adventure you will more than likely encounter a few of New Zealand's native birds like the Weka, Tui, Kereru (wood pigeon), Fantail, and Pukeko Another sideline to On-Yer-Bike could be the cafe where customers have the ability to drop set for a cuppa and just to add another string to her bow, Sue Roper does crochet and with her other commitments all of it keeps her busy. Over 100 years ago there clearly was a college near the area. It absolutely was called "The Camp School," the name of the district. No-one knows how it got its name, but it is probably because the very first sawmill on the West Coast was at Coal Creek and "The Cap" might have been referred to the men have been working at the saw mill. Coal Creek is an area which is prone to flooding quoi faire proche de moi. The water sometimes comes over the street near On-Yer-Bike because the creek floods with the volume of water which comes down from the mountains. Before the overhead bridge being built, traffic will have to cross the railway tracks and look each way for oncoming trains. So far as we know, there clearly was a train/car accidents before the bridge being built. However, throughout the 1968 earthquake, an automobile ran to the edge of the bridge as it moved up and down causing the death of the driver. Coultard/Hall Memorial Just ahead of Runanga could be the Coultard/Hall Memorial. This is the scene of the Runanga Payroll Robbery 9th November 2017. The pay car left Greymouth that morning with the wages and salaries of the miners which totalled almost 4k. Just like the car was about to turn the corner it ran into an obstruction in the middle of the road. The driver Coultard got out of the car to be able to remove the obstruction and at the time a bad man appeared from the bush shouting, "Hands-Up" before firing at Coultard. He died at the scene. The robber then ran to the car and asked for the cash but Hall, who had been the mine's clerk refused to obey and fired two shots from a revolver he carried. The robber shot Hall from close range-so close that Hall's clothes were burning when he was tended to following the robbery. James was fired upon by the robber and was hit in the thigh and behind. The robber secured the cash before making his escape over the railway lines and out of sight.