SH3 - New Plymouth -> Mokau

[limbimtimwim]

Why was I NOT informed?

This road is AWESOME!!

Rode from Wellington to Mokau on Saturday, great weather all the way. Got to see Mt Taranaki devoid of cloud.

But yeah, the highlight was New Plymouth to Mokau, what a cool road. Great scenery, a few good corners. Would have loveeeddddd to have been on the RVF400 solo coming over the Mt Messenger bit, could have really thrashed the shit out of the little bugger on that road. Was still heaps of fun on the 750 with pillion though. Saw plenty of bikes on the road, so obviously the locals like it too.

Sunday came back to Wellington from Mokau via Taupo, called in the trackday, looked like a good time was had by all (Except for those who crashed.. (And I sorta rode back to Wellington with one of them, and he wasn't too upset)).

Hurrah for weekends with good motorcycle weather (I like a spot of gentle rain) and great roads!

[nadroj]

Just the local playground! Don't tell anyone else thou.

[sAsLEX]

Why was I NOT informed?

. Would have loveeeddddd to have been on the RVF400 solo coming over the Mt Messenger bit, could have really thrashed the shit out of the little bugger on that road


You were in the Naki sheep ride reports, and we try to keep them a secret back home lest outsiders drag in the cops.............

And yes its a shit-tin of fun over that bit on the NC! The gorge a little further North rates as well!

[slimjim]

bloody nice bit of road all the way up to tekuiti, and back down too, make bloody nice fitter's too there, hummmmm big one's too

[skelstar]

Woo was it a date-ride lbtw?

The Mt. is even better from the top when its clear and in deep winter :niceone:

[Dazza]

Why was I NOT informed?
Got to see Mt Taranaki devoid of cloud.

Sheesh man keep it quite !!!To us Colonial's it's Mount Egmont (Taranaki) damit :Punk: Yes the ride up from New Plymouth to Piopio & back is awesome, just have to watch out for one over zealous policeman apparently !:dodge: bugger slim you beat me to the draw !

[limbimtimwim]

You were in the Naki sheep ride reports, and we try to keep them a secret back home lest outsiders drag in the cops.............Naki sheep ride report? Do you have bike-spotters on the side of the road writing down number plates?

"Oww! A K6!"
"Hark! I hear a triple"
"Here comes a Harley.."
And yes its a shit-tin of fun over that bit on the NC! The gorge a little further North rates as well!'Twas great.

[slimjim]

Why was I NOT informed?
Got to see Mt Taranaki devoid of cloud.

Sheesh man keep it quite !!!To us Colonial's it's Mount Egmont (Taranaki) damit :Punk: Yes the ride up from New Plymouth to Piopio & back is awesome, just have to watch out for one over zealous policeman apparently !:dodge: bugger slim you beat me to the draw !

shit when those little fuck's are fresh, shit me just about stay there in tent, god but i do love those fresh whitebait fitter's, ,oop's coffee's good too haha

[limbimtimwim]

I had a whitebait fritter in Mokau. Yummy. Maybe a little to much egg.. Still good though.

[Hitcher]

I love that road. I started driving it as a 16-year-old, when (usually) my Mum and I used to drive to Hamilton and back each month to see the then only skin specialist in the North Island outside of Auckland or Wellington. In those days my folks had an XA Falcon. We could do Mum & Dad's farm (about halfway between Eltham and Stratford) to downtown Hamilton in three hours flat. One hour to Mokau, two hours to the Waitomo Caves corner, three to Hamilton. And that was before the Awakino Gorge was straightened up. When I was a seventh former, my Grandpa bought a Triumph Dolomite Sprint. One day he suggested giving Mum the day off and he let me drive him and his new wheels to Hamilton and back. Whoar! 2 hours 40 minutes return. Lovely licorice overdrive. Apart from the colour (chocolate brown), I loved that Dolly.

[SPman]

Did that run a week before I moved, both ways ....(kin live in the 'naki)......from Piopio on, its great - always come out the end with a grin on my face - even if its wet.


except when cattle trucks have left their mark on the hill..........

[yungatart]

Driven it many times in a car-usually carsick in the back of Dad's 60 Belair Chev, as a kid. Not a problem now that i am grown up and get to sit in the front.
Will be doing it for the first time on two wheels this Christmas - can't wait!!

[Hitcher]

It's even greater on a bike. I find it a deeply spiritual experience. Even with my earplugs in I can hear my tupuna calling me home...

[Morepower]

Its great on the 2 fine days they get in the Naki each year :sunny:
:cold: :cold: :cold:

[MSTRS]

Its great on the 2 fine days they get in the Naki each year :sunny:
:cold: :cold: :cold:

Aren't you just a little ray of sunshine...:dodge:

[Morepower]

Aren't you just a little ray of sunshine...:dodge:

Lived in New Plymouth for 5 years so they cant fool me about the weather :done:

[limbimtimwim]

Driven it many times in a car-usually carsick in the back of Dad's 60 Belair Chev, as a kid. Not a problem now that i am grown up and get to sit in the front.
Will be doing it for the first time on two wheels this Christmas - can't wait!!:) :) :) It'll be good!

I simply had no idea what it was like. I have not been that way since I was maybe 10 years old. I remember stopping at the Methanex plant, not much else.

I rate it with East Cape.

[Sensei]

Have ridden this road for 25 years Its Mine !, as is any road in The Naki .:Punk:

[SPman]

Have ridden this road for 25 years Its Mine !, as is any road in The Naki .:Punk:


Oh yes indeedy.........

[limbimtimwim]

W00t picture

[Dazza]

Have ridden this road for 25 years Its Mine !, as is any road in The Naki .:Punk: only when I don't want it :Punk:

[Hitcher]

W00t picture

That's not SH3 to Mokau.That's somewhere on an arc between Normanby and Te Kiri.

[limbimtimwim]

That's not SH3 to Mokau.That's somewhere on an arc between Normanby and Te Kiri.Uh... Don't know those places.

But correct, that is no Mokau, that picture is at side road coming off SH45.

This is the sunset at Mokau.

[sels1]

Nice to see you at Bulls and again at Trackday....you must have done a few miles! How did your pillion find it on the back for that long?

[limbimtimwim]

Nice to see you at Bulls and again at Trackday....you must have done a few miles!Yeah, I keep forgetting to look at the odo, I knew what it said on Saturday morning though. It has two trip meters, I should have used both, one for fuel, one for the whole trip.
How did your pillion find it on the back for that long?Fine, the blinky fuel light comes was coming on at 200km, so we have to stop often anyway. What kills us both is straight roads, lucky that was only the blasted straights out of Wellington anyway. No movement equals pain. I was getting great economy out of it, I can make the blinky fuel light come on after 165km in normal (Read, the 'rapa and the hill) circumstances. I have not explored the depths of the 'i'm not blinking anymore, I'm on solid now because I'm getting really thirsty' fuel light yet.

[nadroj]

The direct route

[sAsLEX]

That's not SH3 to Mokau.That's somewhere on an arc between Normanby and Te Kiri.

http://saslex.orcon.net.nz/CBR250RR.jpg

I raise you can hardly see the mountain pic lmlbtw with that!

[nadroj]

http://saslex.orcon.net.nz/CBR250RR.jpg

I raise you can hardly see the mountain pic lmlbtw with that!

That bee'd Tataramaka - Okato inland from SH45

[sAsLEX]

That bee'd Tataramaka - Okato inland from SH45

dunno went up the road from Home across the Puakai ranges then down towards the coast... did it on a push bike once much easier on the powered bike

[ynot slow]

Naki sheep ride report? Do you have bike-spotters on the side of the road writing down number plates?

"Oww! A K6!"
"Hark! I hear a triple"
"Here comes a Harley.."'Twas great.

local humour Whats the diff between getting a blowjob from Helen Clarkeee and rooting a sheep{especially for aussies} in wangamomona? Nothin if ya don't look down.:shit:

[ynot slow]

go off main road south of hawera to patea,turn left at ball rd follow signs to end of road and you are at patea damsite,on way back have a beer at alton tavern,lots of hills and turns.also any road up to either dawson falls or stratford mountain house on a fine winters day you get brilliant views with snow filled peaks of central plateau.