Favourite corners in Auckland

[Winter]

The last couple of days puttering around the greater Auckland area, I've found a couple of corners that I just love. :love:

Its probably because they are just right for my level of riding or sommat, but I thought I'd ask others what there favourite lines are?

There is a wicked roundabout in Howick somewhere with a bit of a left-right-left line you can do at some silly speeds.

See attached pic for todays favorite, nice and easy just 'lots-o lean'. First to name it gets some bling!

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[paturoa]

Waterview on ramp - north western.

[Swoop]

^^You got that right!

[peasea]

The last couple of days puttering around the greater Auckland area, I've found a couple of corners that I just love. :love:

Its probably because they are just right for my level of riding or sommat, but I thought I'd ask others what there favourite lines are?

There is a wicked roundabout in Howick somewhere with a bit of a left-right-left line you can do at some silly speeds.

See attached pic for todays favorite, nice and easy just 'lots-o lean'. First to name it gets some bling!

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Heading south, along the the old SH1 just north of the Albany Hill, you come past an Xmas tree plantation on your right, it breaks into a passing lane, then a right-hander, into a sweeping left-hander and uphill. Brilliant, never seen a cop there, I always go hard up that one!

[MidnightMike]

Good corners huh?

Kaimais ftw. :rockon:

[Sanx]

This is one of my favourite corners ... though it's difficult finding it free of traffic.

[Brett]

This is one of my favourite corners ... though it's difficult finding it free of traffic.

Second that...one very fast corner good for low lean angles.

[Whynot]

Waterview on ramp - north western.

ditto :first:

[gijoe1313]

Out in my back yard ...Hunuas, Kaiaua, Maraetai, Whitford, Twilight Road (for those impromptu Crusty Demon impersonations) SH22, Waiuku, Drury, Hampton Downs, the Waikato Expressway rounder ... Oh wait... south of Bombay doesn't count? :pinch:

[beyond]

Kawakawa Bay to Orere point turnoff :)

Out of Auckland I know but man oh man, the run from Coro to Whitianga or vice versa. Drool, dribble ......

[Whynot]

heres a candidate for the worst .......

[gijoe1313]

Kawakawa Bay to Orere point turnoff :)

Out of Auckland I know but man oh man, the run from Coro to Whitianga or vice versa. Drool, dribble ......

Stoppit! You're making me want to go out there right now! :nono: :rofl:

[Winter]

Out in my back yard ...Hunuas, Kaiaua, Maraetai, Whitford, Twilight Road (for those impromptu Crusty Demon impersonations) SH22, Waiuku, Drury, Hampton Downs, the Waikato Expressway rounder ... Oh wait... south of Bombay doesn't count? :pinch:

Yeah i did some of that today, Twilight Rd was a goodun.

[xwhatsit]

heres a candidate for the worst .......

Oh I take that most days.... Neilson St offramp on Mangere Bridge, right? Horribly bumpy piece of shit. That's why I try to go Queenstown Rd and go along Manukau Rd instead. Would be fun if it were not corrugated and there was no traffic.

[BarBender]

Two favourite:
1. The left turn out of my street.
2. The right turn into my street.

[Whynot]

Oh I take that most days.... Neilson St offramp on Mangere Bridge, right? Horribly bumpy piece of shit. That's why I try to go Queenstown Rd and go along Manukau Rd instead. Would be fun if it were not corrugated and there was no traffic.

yep thats the one, almost lost all my teeth the first time i did it on the bike .....

[Sam I Am]

got to be on ramp to North-Western MW off great north rd Pt Chev.

and it rocks

[Sam I Am]

just realised im rather slow ........... lol

[Sanx]

Oh I take that most days.... Neilson St offramp on Mangere Bridge, right? Horribly bumpy piece of shit. That's why I try to go Queenstown Rd and go along Manukau Rd instead. Would be fun if it were not corrugated and there was no traffic.

That's the one. I used to enjoy that little road that runs parallel to the motorway along the waterfront by the yacht club when I had my XR250. Even beat a Gixxer 1000 along that stretch too. However ... he did have to slow down for the huge speedbumps, whilst I used them as an excuse for airtime.

[xwhatsit]

That's the one. I used to enjoy that little road that runs parallel to the motorway along the waterfront by the yacht club when I had my XR250. Even beat a Gixxer 1000 along that stretch too. However ... he did have to slow down for the huge speedbumps, whilst I used them as an excuse for airtime.

Lol! I've never been down there, but I was going along next to it on the motorway, and there was this guy on a scooter... he was nailing it, he bottomed out on one of the speedbumps and bailed haha. This happened while he was ahead of me, so I saw him pick himself up as I went past, he seemed OK, so I wasn't too worried. Shit it was funny!

[Chisanga]

I like the left hander as you turn from Botany Road into Cascades... I went through there today and just felt that was the best corner in the world :)

[Gremlin]

I like the left hander as you turn from Botany Road into Cascades... I went through there today and just felt that was the best corner in the world :)
done about 90 through there I think... there's a very good line to take :innocent:

Even better is turning right onto botany from cascades. If you get lucky, traffic has cleared out, and hasn't turned orange yet. Race down into the intersection, hard on brakes, down a few gears, feel it lock up, chuck it through corner, over the high-ish crown, bit of wiggle from the rear... yes... I like :love:

Can't beat the SE curves either... I swear if anything is going to teach me not to do it any more... its going to be those concrete barriers :mellow:

[craigs288]

From either end including to Piha and back.

Tight, twisty, full of bumps and ripples and a few curves that just keep going.

Sounds more like my girlfriend.

[Grahameeboy]

Mine is the corner before my house cause I know I have got back safe.

[Firefight]

fav = Ngapipi drive , just off tamaki drive

out of aks = H/way 22 and Glen afton and rotowaro rds


F/F

[Winter]

fav = Ngapipi drive , just off tamaki drive


Yeah thats a goodun. Turn off Ngapipi onto Paritai Drive and follow it to the end, then turn around and go back that other way. Just watch, there is a fair bit of construction happening around there.

[Whynot]

From either end including to Piha and back.

Tight, twisty, full of bumps and ripples and a few curves that just keep going.

Sounds more like my girlfriend.

lol, classic

[Littleman]

Theres four 55k corners near the Albany end of the Coatesville-Riverhead highway. Going up the hill, nicely sealed and all right after the other.

[more_fasterer]

That waterview on-ramp to town sketches me out a bit cos of the armco on the outside.

My fave is on beach rd on the shore, travelling south between castor bay & milftown there is a lovely uphill left/right combo. Smooth, grippy & curvy - like all the best things in life :innocent:

[MaxCannon]

heres a candidate for the worst .......


I've not found that to bad.

It's bumpy but after the first time I went round on the bike and got shaken about I just ride around the bumps.

My favorite corner on the way to work is along Mt Eden rd heading towards Mt Eden Motorcycles.
Dips downhill and sweeps to the left.

Pithy there are usually cars in the way.

[xwhatsit]

This is part of a longer sequence of corners. Kiwi Esplanade, Mangere Bridge. The best corner IMHO is the one highlighted in red. Perfect surface, signposted at 25kph, long enough to scrape pegs if you go quick enough. I take this route most days, it would be faster to just go straight to my house, but it's much more fun to take the detour down along the waterfront then back up.

[criticmbs]

How about this for good corners. This is a video of me nd my mate going up twilight road in Clevedon!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doOihbRcq_s

[Forest]

Going south on SH1 through Auckland. Take the off-ramp that loops round under the motorway and into the back of Onehunga.

Magic!

[Pancakes]

Northbound on the Northern, off at Greville Rd, 180+degrees right to the on ramp and 180+degrees left and climbing back to the motorway. Good and accessable. Or up Dingle Dell?

[RC1]

before lights went up at westgate there was a really nice l/h sweeper after the downhill straight after royal rd , or r/h sweeper coming from kumeu way depending which way you went,easily get the pegs down everytime now its straight . WTF

[skidMark]

favourites for me have to be

fern glen road north (off long drive, st heliers , east auckland)

and riddell road , glendowie, east auckland

once out of auckland....whangamata road omg i love that

and twilight road...and the coast road down to kaiaua / miranda from whiftord damn thats fun. claimed some of my fairing once and a lever but i still love it.

heres fern glen south from google earth

don't ask how long i spent finding it lol

what you don't see is that it's on a big hill and the corners are perfect.

[Winter]

f

don't ask how long i spent finding it lol


about 12 seconds to type "Fern Glen Road South, Auckland, New Zealand" into the search box?

[Theatre]

fern glen road north (off long drive, st heliers , east auckland)

and riddell road , glendowie, east auckland

and twilight road...and the coast road down to kaiaua / miranda from whiftord damn thats fun. claimed some of my fairing once and a lever but i still love it.
Gotta agree with mark here. Used to love fern glen north, watch for boyracers on your side of the road people! Riddell road would be great if it was 70, lots of nice sweepy corners. All of those clevedon/kaiaua roads are epic.

[Squeak the Rat]

Had a good scrape turning right onto the northern motorway southbound the other day. Think it was the silverdale onramp (?).....

[skidMark]

heres a video of me on riddell

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[race me!!!!]

sky gods are watching!!!

[skidMark]

heyyyy terrryyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wasuppp brudddahhhhh!

[Phurrball]

Yeah, that Waterview onramp is always good for a lean...unless it's busy with traffic.

My faves are close to home - probably just familiarity. There's 2 mint right-handers going towards Huia Rd on Laingholm drive. Beaut surface - unlike some of the other crap on same road.

It's niiiiice to live in the twisty Waitakeres - always good to see the sign at the start of Lainghom Drive proclaiming twistyness for the next few kms home :yes:

[more_fasterer]

fern glen road north (off long drive, st heliers , east auckland)

Agreed SM, great little road for a thrash! :yes:

Nice vid too - though I won't comment about your blindly overtaking a pajero on the blind side round a blind bend with an intersection, I just wanted to see how many times I could write "blind" in a sentence (4 as it happens) :bleh:

[skidMark]

Agreed SM, great little road for a thrash! :yes:

Nice vid too - though I won't comment about your blindly overtaking a pajero on the blind side round a blind bend with an intersection, I just wanted to see how many times I could write "blind" in a sentence (4 as it happens) :bleh:

lol

yeah the things you do when young and stupid.:dodge:

[criticmbs]

gday Mark. Remember me? Yep you got it, the guy that was accusing you of overtaking on blind corners. After your certainty in denial that you do not overtake on blind corners i think this just prooved that wrong; I refer you back to the thread ....

( http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=48596&highlight=twilight )

where you stated "i would never ever ever overtake on a blind coner f**k that and a bag of chips" ...well buddy i think you just prooved yourself wrong! Sorry to bring it up but i just could not help it! neway....What bike are you riding in that clip.

[Winter]

gday Mark. Remember me? Yep you got it, the guy that was accusing you of overtaking on blind corners. After your certainty in denial that you do not overtake on blind corners i think this just prooved that wrong; I refer you back to the thread ....

( http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=48596&highlight=twilight )

where you stated "i would never ever ever overtake on a blind coner f**k that and a bag of chips" ...well buddy i think you just prooved yourself wrong! Sorry to bring it up but i just could not help it! neway....What bike are you riding in that clip.



Look Mr 9. posts, The title of this thread states 'favourite corners in Auckland', not 'im gonna prove skidmark overtakes where he should not'.

Kthnxbye.

[skidMark]

gday Mark. Remember me? Yep you got it, the guy that was accusing you of overtaking on blind corners. After your certainty in denial that you do not overtake on blind corners i think this just prooved that wrong; I refer you back to the thread ....

( http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=48596&highlight=twilight )

where you stated "i would never ever ever overtake on a blind coner f**k that and a bag of chips" ...well buddy i think you just prooved yourself wrong! Sorry to bring it up but i just could not help it! neway....What bike are you riding in that clip.

that corner wasn't blind i could see what was coming

big gap in the trees to the left....

anyways back on topic

[howdamnhard]

Sky rd Clevedon,Hanua and Kawakawa.:scooter: :yes:

[howdamnhard]

Oh yes I forgot Twilight Rd ,Clevedon.:yes:

[Chisanga]

I quite like the right hander at the end of The Parade, Bucklands Beach... depending on how busy it is though you g=have to slow down and watch for people pulling out from the parking area aloongside the road.

[skidMark]

Oh yes I forgot Twilight Rd ,Clevedon.:yes:


on a gn250?

your pretty keen haha

change your bars if your going to do twisties

i picked up a set for my gn (don't have it anymore) for $15 at a wreckers....some low rise motorcross bars.

makes them alot easier to corner.

and for $15 bucks it's not exactly expensive.

makes them alot roomier too

[NighthawkNZ]

you have favorite corners... :scratch:

all corners are good and are my favorite its the straights that get me (I nearly come off... cause its more exciting just to walk the bugger) :lol:

[Morcs]

Panmure roundabout :yes:

I find it hilarous in busy traffic to just go round and round and round and round with my knee scraping whilst all the cages sit around wondering what the fuck im doing.

I hope this helps.

[vifferman]

Good corners huh?

Kaimais ftw. :rockon:
Yeah, love those, even in the car.
Although the road surface is a bit crap sometimes, due to all the trucks.

[vifferman]

I take this route most days, it would be faster to just go straight to my house, but it's much more fun to take the detour down along the waterfront then back up.
Sounds like me.
When I worked in Ponsonby, I took the back streets to work and home. Didn't really save any time, but I'd rather take longer and keep moving. I HATE sitting in traffic on the bike.

Now I work in Albania, I've almost got my routes sorted out. The trouble is, with all the traffic congestion in D'Auckland, a lot of the backstreet routes have become popular with "rat runners". I took one of my old routes the other week, when I had to go into town at rush hour :shit: (yeah, it was really crap), and pharkme, if it wasn't all clogged up with car drivers who'd worked out it was better taking the less obvious route.

The thing I find is that even taking the same corners day after day after day, I rarely feel like I've absolutely nailed them, especially as there are some tricky off-camber corners to contend with. The best experiences would have to be having the rear sliding on the FahrtSurm, and coming out of corners on either the FahrtSturm or the VFR with the front wheel off the deck. Also good - but guilty pleasure - is passing cars around the outside of favourite corners. And my Birkenhead - Ponsonby backstreet route included at least one wheelie nearly every day.

I have too much imagination though, and remember what binning it feels like, even though I've only lowsided once (on the way to work), once been taken out by a dozy git outside his house, and never lost it from going too fast. I worry that if I thrash around the same streets too many times, some namby-pamby SafetyNazi will phone the cops and I'll get pinged one day, then that will fuck it up completely for me.

[MidnightMike]

Yeah, love those, even in the car.
Although the road surface is a bit crap sometimes, due to all the trucks.

If you keep in the over taking lane its sweet as. :scooter:

[skidMark]

Panmure roundabout :yes:

I find it hilarous in busy traffic to just go round and round and round and round with my knee scraping whilst all the cages sit around wondering what the fuck im doing.

I hope this helps.


you know it's nicknamed suicide roundabout for good reason right

i try avoid that thing like the plague

roadrules seem to go out the window when people use it

[Motu]

I quite like the right hander at the end of The Parade, Bucklands Beach... .


Did you know there used to be street races at Bucklands beach? Late '40's and early '50's.I don't remember them as I was just a baby,but my mother often used to talk about them....they could watch sitting on the wall of my grandmother's house on The Parade.

[Pancakes]

Quote:
Originally Posted by more_fasterer
Agreed SM, great little road for a thrash!

Nice vid too - though I won't comment about your blindly overtaking a pajero on the blind side round a blind bend with an intersection, I just wanted to see how many times I could write "blind" in a sentence (4 as it happens)

lol

yeah the things you do when young and stupid.


Mark

Sorry to be a downer but when you can die it's not that cool eh.

Getting away with it once (or more) doesn't mean you will again.

[skidMark]

Quote:
Originally Posted by more_fasterer
Agreed SM, great little road for a thrash!

Nice vid too - though I won't comment about your blindly overtaking a pajero on the blind side round a blind bend with an intersection, I just wanted to see how many times I could write "blind" in a sentence (4 as it happens)

lol

yeah the things you do when young and stupid.


Mark

Sorry to be a downer but when you can die it's not that cool eh.

Getting away with it once (or more) doesn't mean you will again.

don't worry matey, i don't do it anymore... at all

you going to be at the pub on thursday?

[90s]

My daily commute has the Gt North Rd / SH16 270 deg sweeper (fantastic - today started next to a Ford Xr8 coup in yellow giving me the eye, and by the time I was entering the turn I couldn't even see him in my mirrors) and a nice little bit of scenic drive.

[Tickler]

City curcuit includes riddell rd, fern glen south, then along tamaki drive to lower domain drive for a few repeatitions.Then up towards uni for that long downhill left hander to join SH16 towards the port. Quick U, then a final run up and down domain, then a quick blast up the port hill on to SH1.

Twilight is good...one day she will be mine...oh yes...she will be mine. also trig rd in whitford is good.

In summary: Corners

[Pancakes]

don't worry matey, i don't do it anymore... at all

you going to be at the pub on thursday?

Not this Thurs, cos it's been and gone, I don't get enough time for myself to get a ride every week. The two ATNR's and a few random ones are all I really get in lately (except for the daily North Western which is K's under the belt and mean's I stay in tune with the bike). If the roads dry on the 24th I'll be there for sure, gonna try to make each second one and follow the big bikes!

Ummm, I wasn't pinching the thread......

Manuka Rd, Glenfield going up the hill isn't one I would have thought of as a typical bike corner but always leaves me smiling. The right/left thru Pare' just up from the prison makes me think, there's room for more speed on that one each time and the new motorway links, no oncoming traffic BRAND NEW ROAD SURFACE!! and good viz.:Punk:

[mnkyboy]

This is part of a longer sequence of corners. Kiwi Esplanade, Mangere Bridge. The best corner IMHO is the one highlighted in red. Perfect surface, signposted at 25kph, long enough to scrape pegs if you go quick enough. I take this route most days, it would be faster to just go straight to my house, but it's much more fun to take the detour down along the waterfront then back up.

I travel that road most days...I live up the other end closeish to ambury park...That corners a lot of fun...but the whole roads a goodun.

[xwhatsit]

I travel that road most days...I live up the other end closeish to ambury park...That corners a lot of fun...but the whole roads a goodun.

Yeah? I'm just around the corner from you then. I've never seen another bike in the entire area, apart from some guy who was around briefly on a big KTM single.

Will keep an eye out :)

[mnkyboy]

Yeah? I'm just around the corner from you then. I've never seen another bike in the entire area, apart from some guy who was around briefly on a big KTM single.

Will keep an eye out :)

Yorkton Rise

Red VN250; only brought the house 5 weeks ago

[skidMark]

need a decent race track in auckland.

[Pancakes]

you can make your submissions right now on the Waitakere City council airport option A, split Aucklands air traffic in half and have two running at below the critical mass of profitablity and affordability. B, Have a drag-strip/garage/diplay area/curcuit track and grass track in the same area? We can all have a say, if you don't.. well.. tough