Favourite Riding Routes

[Toaster]

Hey, keen to hear about and share fellow KB's favourite social riding routes/haunts/cafes etc....

Auckland area would be of particular interest (for me anyway!)
Cheers! Toaster.

[Toaster]

Also any ideas for best spots when touring around the country would be awesome!

[beyond]

Ok, for a close to home run that's great after work and takes around an hour and a quarter if you go fast and an hour and a half if you go moderate is over Kauiau. I leave home, shoot up the Hunua Gorge, drop left over Monument road into Clevedon, head out to Kawakawa bay, the Orere to Kauiau.

Right where the petrol station is at Kauiau, I turn right and head towards Mangatangi, where it joins the road from Miranda to the state highway, turn right, enter the main highway before the Castle Cafe, turn right after the Castle towards Hotel DuVin, then straight through towards Bombay, but hang a right towards Ararimu and come down the hill from Ararimu back to the Motorway at Ramarama. You get all the twisties you want, heaps of nice sweepers, good straights and everything in between.

It's an awesome ride for any skill level too. There's a few places where you can see a long a way and give the bike a bit of a tickle. :)

[McJim]

What Beyond Said. There are some nice roads out towards Manukau Heads but they're not as twisty...more winding. The whole area around Whitford, Maraetai, Kawakawa, Kaiaua, Hunua, Clevedon and Miranda has a huge range of Straights, Sweepers and twisties - it's just a playground for a bike.

I like it coz I don't have to ride across Auckland to get to it either!

[beyond]

I like it coz I don't have to ride across Auckland to get to it either!

Exactly :)

My favourite playground in my own back yard. Almost as good as the Coro loop but then to get to the loop, the boring straights :(

[terbang]

Sorry ZRXer, beat ya to it. Coro Loop..!

[beyond]

Sorry ZRXer, beat ya to it. Coro Loop..!

:lol: Yeah, ya beat him.

That road from Whitianga over the hill to Coro is still one of the best in the country, especially when you get on the hot mix seal in the twisties. Thats is awesome. :woohoo:

[Toaster]

wicked... all good stuff thanks posters. :)

[gijoe1313]

Also heading north via Titirangi to Kumeu for SH16 s'good to ride also - all the way up to Wellsford even!

[Maha]

Hey, keen to hear about and share fellow KB's favourite social riding routes/haunts/cafes etc....

Auckland area would be of particular interest (for me anyway!)
Cheers! Toaster.

Have you been up through Mangawhai/Waipu/langs beach?
Paparoa/Oakliegh rd included....end up at the Puhoi for a couple of :apint:
A must do!! if you havent......:yes:

[RC1]

riverhead-coatsville highway always good (sh 28 ? i think) kumeu way,also out that way old nth rd all the way to helensville

[Toaster]

riverhead-coatsville highway always good (sh 28 ? i think) kumeu way,also out that way old nth rd all the way to helensville

Hasn't the speed limit been dropped to 80km/h through there?

[Gremlin]

Hasn't the speed limit been dropped to 80km/h through there?
I believe it has.... :(

mmm anything on the coromandel, as just about everything paeroa north...

[BarBender]

Around Auckland? - Meremere drag strip

[Pukuriri]

Yeah, Coatesville Riverhead has been dropped to 80.

SH16 always a good ride ... only prob is that alot of it has just been re-sealed this week. North Makarau for about 25 ks!!!

Should be fun when the loose stuff has gone tho!!

[TLDV8]

Maybe some of the Rusty Nuts have some old ride sheets?
Those guys know every road including ones that havn't been made yet.
Plenty of kms without going near a main road.

[RC1]

Hasn't the speed limit been dropped to 80km/h through there?
are you planning to stick to the speed limit? me thinks not !

[Toaster]

are you planning to stick to the speed limit? me thinks not !

Merely wondering what buffer there was until the 41kms over thing kicked in...........

[Toaster]

Should be fun when the loose stuff has gone tho!!

sweeeeeettttttt!

[Pixie]

Have you been up through Mangawhai/Waipu/langs beach?
Paparoa/Oakliegh rd included....end up at the Puhoi for a couple of :apint:
A must do!! if you havent......:yes:

An alternative way to Mangawhai from Wellsford,is turn right into Matherson rd ( just north of the pub ) which becomes Whangaripo valley rd,Left into Tomarata valley rd,left into school rd the right into Mangawhai rd.

You can turn right into Wayby Valley rd south of Wellsford ( by the silos ) to get onto Whangaripo valley rd

[Maha]

An alternative way to Mangawhai from Wellsford,is turn right into Matherson rd ( just north of the pub ) which becomes Whangaripo valley rd,Left into Tomarata valley rd,left into school rd the right into Mangawhai rd.

You can turn right into Wayby Valley rd south of Wellsford ( by the silos ) to get onto Whangaripo valley rd

Is school rd all sealed now?...looks like they get ready to seal the rest of Waiteti rd (sp)...