The best straights in the country

[Boob Johnson]

In the quest for balls out flat n true straights............where are they? What's your favourite section of tarmac? And why.


I would have to say the Ramarama area is pretty damn good. One point there is a 5km section (used for speedo testing). The road is soooooo smooth flat n true, non of this pot hole business.

Followed closely (no pun intended) by the Orewa to upper north shore, not straight all the way of course but close enough & very good quality surface.

[Mikkel]

Well there are a couple of nice straight roads around Canterbury...

To mention two notables:

Old Tram Road near Oxford - Russel Wright and Bob Burns set a couple of land speed records there back in 1955 on the 27th of July. (261 km/h for a sidecar and 298 km/h for a motorcycle).

Chertsey-Kyle Road near Ashburton - Phil Garrett and Glenn Hayward set the new land speed record for a side car at 271 km/h on the 12th of July 2005.

There are many more however, the Canterbrian plains are good for flat straight roads.

[Gremlin]

I hope no-one lists the actual favourites, otherwise, its a fantastic way for cops to focus their efforts :buggerd:

yeh... not saying :shutup:

[onearmedbandit]

Straights only exist to get me from corner to corner.

[Boob Johnson]

I hope no-one lists the actual favourites, otherwise, its a fantastic way for cops to focus their efforts :buggerd:

yeh... not saying :shutup:lol, pretty sure they can work it out for themselves :wacko:


Coppa 1: "hey thats a pretty straight bit of road there Bill"

Coppa 2: "yeah tis pretty straight Phill, bet no one EVER exceeds the speed limit on it, lets move our laser gun to that 30 km/h corner aye, see what we can get"


The funny thing with paranoia is sometimes they ARE actually watching :laugh:

[Bren]

my fave would be the mt hutt station rd...between methven and mt hutt station...straight and a slight decline...nice

[Grahameeboy]

Hunua......there is a nice long straight with a slight kink....easy 200 plus...and safe..

[kiwifruit]

easy 200 plus...and safe..
are you crazy?
200 is never safe

[nodrog]

there is a nice 20 odd metre straight bit on my driveway, smooth flat concrete surface with no potholes, or police, and theres always a bourbon at the end! :2thumbsup

[FROSTY]

The only straights I feel really safe on-- Back straight at Pukekohe and front straight at Teratonga -both good straights to find out about speed n stuff

[Finn]

...and theres always a bourbon at the end! :2thumbsup

Dude, you keep bourbon in your letterbox? I wouldn't have said that on a public forum.

And Boob, you're a tit.

[nodrog]

Dude, you keep bourbon in your letterbox? I wouldn't have said that on a public forum.

mate its a long driveway, and i get thirsty!

[yod]

waipara and culverden



Dude, you keep bourbon in your letterbox? I wouldn't have said that on a public forum.

And Boob, you're a tit.


i can think of worse things to be than a tit

[jrandom]

Boob, if your IQ exceeded your shoe size, you would have realised that I was taking the piss last night about straight roads.

:no:

[Swoop]

I would have to say the Ramarama area is pretty damn good. One point there is a 5km section (used for speedo testing). The road is soooooo smooth flat n true, non of this pot hole business.
Also this is a heavy police area.

Play "spot the cop". Radar, laser AND cameravans tax that area.

The bacon isn't all in Pokeno.

[darkwolf]

There are a few out towards Gordonton-Taupiri ways. Know they're great in the car - have yet to try on a bike. Also Maungateparu has a road connecting to Morrinsville - another brilliant road - twisty to start then long straights with nicely cambered corneres.

[NighthawkNZ]

I hate straight roads... the be boring... even in a cage... Any one can ride a bike in a straight line... but cornering shows some skill...
However the canterbury plans and some of the back roads...

[Grahameeboy]

are you crazy?
200 is never safe

Well safer that blatting a 10 around Taupo.....know what I mean 'arry!!

Well I am not crazy. It is straight as, 1 driveway and I am still alive....50k can be unsafe...........I am 45, look after Nats so I would not do anything that I knew was unsafe and likely to kill me......:innocent:

[Ragingrob]

How about those massive straights coming up to the one way bridge before Kopu? 3 or 4 straights that last a few k's each.

[DMNTD]

I LOVE the straights between the corners especially around the Coro Loop and up in the Waipoua Forest.
Otherwise...no thanks! :niceone:

[Kittyhawk]

Drag strip at Meremere. But its not long enough.

As for straight roads....BORING!!! if ya want straight roads go to the States...

I say give me twisties any day, hell of a lot more fun, less chance of getting a speeding ticket (depending how tight the twisites are) and anyone can open it up and ride fast in a straight line.

There is no skill in it.

[darkwolf]

anyone can open it up and ride fast in a straight line.

There is no skill in it.

I'll second that. My ex-girlfriend was a prime example - realised that she had finally managed to top-out her car and started clapping with delight :eek5:

[dogsnbikes]

Corners,corners and more corners thats where I open the throttle up and get down to bussiness and its just as much fun doing it 2up as it is solo

As for the striaght liners Im up for a new tyre again only 3000k plenty of tread in the centre just nothing left on the edges so send me a pm if your after a 190/50/17:whistle:

[DMNTD]

As for the striaght liners Im up for a new tyre again only 3000k plenty of tread in the centre just nothing left on the edges so send me a pm if your after a 190/50/17:whistle:

Well as the only straight lining that I enjoy is the drag strip,I may be keen king sir! The '14 chews 'em like a monster that it is.:eek:

PM (being) sent. :niceone:

[more_fasterer]

I would have to say the Ramarama area is pretty damn good. One point there is a 5km section (used for speedo testing). The road is soooooo smooth flat n true, non of this pot hole business.

Followed closely (no pun intended) by the Orewa to upper north shore, not straight all the way of course but close enough & very good quality surface.

Ugh, right next to the cheesecutter median? No thanks. Rotorua - Toe Paw on the other hand...

[dogsnbikes]

Well as the only straight lining that I enjoy is the drag strip,I may be keen king sir! The '14 chews 'em like a monster that it is.:eek:

PM (being) sent. :niceone:

Pm sent its yours if you want it Chris 1st week in december

[Boob Johnson]

Boob, if your IQ exceeded your shoe size, you would have realised that I was taking the piss last night about straight roads.

:no:
lol yeah ok JR, I guess my powers of spotting sarcasm without the use of smilies is on the blink, forgive me oh great & powerful one :whistle:



:bleh:



ps: that's how you do sarcasm IN TEXT jr, without the benefit of body language or tone of voice im a mere mortal sorry.

[Ghost_Bullet]

my fave would be the mt hutt station rd...between methven and mt hutt station...straight and a slight decline...nice

What if you was going in the oposite direction, love the slight incline???

[Mr. Peanut]

How about those massive straights coming up to the one way bridge before Kopu? 3 or 4 straights that last a few k's each.

Heavily patrolled!!! But there's a few side roads up there, very deserted... :second:00

[The Pastor]

the ruawai straights near dargahole are nuts long, they must be close to 10km long!

[Hitcher]

Great straights? We're bikers, FFS. What's all this nonsense about straights? Viva le corners! Eureka les twisties! Straights? I fart in their general interminably boring direction.

[Skyryder]

Most of the time you are riding upright and on straights so for all those who don't like straights why do you ride?:calm:

Skyyrder

[hospitalfood]

nothing wrong with straights, my girlfriend is pretty straight. but If any of you try to ride her I wont be cool with it.....

[xwhatsit]

It may just because I ride a slow small-capacity thumper, but how very fucking boring. It's on the straights I remember again that having such low clip-ons really does make your wrists ache, and your back numb, and oh! that seat is really piss-poor, and that vibration through the tank just makes your thighs and knees go tingly.

Reminds me of how crude the so-called suspension is as well; in the corners it's fun and engaging and direct, but going straight ahead it just feels harsh and uncomfortable.

Yawn.

[HDTboy]

Queen Street. If you time the lights at the top just right, you can jump K-rd

[Two Smoker]

Queen Street. If you time the lights at the top just right, you can jump K-rd

Jumps are neither big nor Clever... Ask Chloe and Ange hehehe

[jrandom]

ps: that's how you do sarcasm IN TEXT jr

The other clue is generally a motorcyclist talking about how great straight roads are.

:p

[Boob Johnson]

the ruawai straights near dargahole are nuts long, they must be close to 10km long!10Km???? Come on man, that's pretty far out there :blink:

Messure it next time out of interest sakes. The Ramarama straights on the southern motorway in or out of Auckaloffa are 5km's straight so 10 is just nuts.




It may just because I ride a slow small-capacity thumper, but how very fucking boring. It's on the straights I remember again that having such low clip-ons really does make your wrists ache, and your back numb, and oh! that seat is really piss-poor, and that vibration through the tank just makes your thighs and knees go tingly.

Reminds me of how crude the so-called suspension is as well; in the corners it's fun and engaging and direct, but going straight ahead it just feels harsh and uncomfortable.

Yawn.
Fuck a duck mate, sounds like its time for a new bike :violin:



The other clue is generally a motorcyclist talking about how great straight roads are.

:pArrrrrr to love corners first you must love straights ;)

[Chrislost]

The only straights I feel really safe on-- Back straight at Pukekohe and front straight at Teratonga -both good straights to find out about speed n stuff

i could only get to 284 on my speedo at puke.
i gt at 19 more on the motorway on the way home.

[owner]

The only straights I feel really safe on-- Back straight at Pukekohe and front straight at Teratonga -both good straights to find out about speed n stuff

Only had the bike out puke twice (120 laps), but I definately didnt feel safe on the straight, the gutter/join in the middle and the kink, fun but not safe.
waipu, piha,peak rd 4 corners from the golf club, miranda and ruawai all good fun. Straights are loads of fun if they have a smooth corner at the end.
Its fun as hell tryna pull up and gain the correct entry speed

[xwhatsit]

Fuck a duck mate, sounds like its time for a new bike :violin:

Fuck no. Sounds like it's time for you to learn how to go around corners? That's what biking is.

If I wanted to be comfy and relaxed going in a dead straight line I'd catch a train.

[pritch]

Sounds like it's time for you to learn how to go around corners? That's what biking is.

True... The only thing that makes a straight piece of road bearable is more speed so it's over faster. Funny though, the Police have actually managed to figure that out too, so guess where they tend to sit?

There was this piece of road I wanted to try the Hornet on. Not very wide but a couple of long straights, no houses, not much traffic, no shrubbery beside the road, nothing growing higher than about 20 centimetres.

Absolutely nowhere for anything bigger than a mouse to hide...

Everytime I've been there in that frame of mind, good tyres, and bike recently serviced etc, it has either been raining or blowing a gale...

Maybe in a month or so the VFR can try its luck.

Oh, it's a private road of course :whistle:

[SPman]

Hmmm....in the country.....Newdegate to Lake Grace....about 75km dead straight, with lots of hills, so it's sort of straight with curves. Good for plenty of air time if you get it right.........

Oh....wrong country......

[Krusti]

When visiting my son at Rangitata River mouth area I normally turn off at Hindes and head out there. Loooooooooooong straights, very little traffic.

Junior now reports seeing plain car parked observing the straights ! Bastards !

Had a dream once where my Z1000 was tapped out at 238 and a TLR pulled up beside me with the rider smiling before he left me in the dust.

I hate those dreams, they seem so real at the time....:whistle:

[Boob Johnson]

Fuck no. Sounds like it's time for you to learn how to go around corners? That's what biking is.I love the corners as much as I love the straights to be honest, they each have there own appeal, as long as im riding im happy. Just because your 2 fiddy couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding doesn't mean you have to take out your frustrations on a big sprotsbike rider now. This thread is about one aspect of riding, my bike does both, sorry bout yours :bleh:

[darkwolf]

10Km???? Come on man, that's pretty far out there :blink:



Actually there is a road out past Rutherford road (you'll notice that I don't mention the road so people stay off and I can have my fun) that is 12KM long - measured it with my own speedo (not the undies/togs either) That's a very short drive - or at least it seems it...

Anyway back to my point - hence 10KM doesn't seem so unrealistic - I can't remember the length of my other road but it's pretty long too. Then there is telephone road past puketaha and I can't remember the length on that either but it's about as long also - but too bumpy to have fun on really.

[Boob Johnson]

Actually there is a road out past Rutherford road (you'll notice that I don't mention the road so people stay off and I can have my fun) that is 12KM long - measured it with my own speedo (not the undies/togs either) That's a very short drive - or at least it seems it...

Anyway back to my point - hence 10KM doesn't seem so unrealistic - I can't remember the length of my other road but it's pretty long too. Then there is telephone road past puketaha and I can't remember the length on that either but it's about as long also - but too bumpy to have fun on really.
Are these around your area? Morrinsville that is.

[xwhatsit]

I love the corners as much as I love the straights to be honest, they each have there own appeal, as long as im riding im happy. Just because your 2 fiddy couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding doesn't mean you have to take out your frustrations on a big sprotsbike rider now. This thread is about one aspect of riding, my bike does both, sorry bout yours :bleh:

Come for a ride with Twinkle on his GN250 some time. He'll run fucking rings around your Riffer in the twisty bits.

I think you missed the point of biking in general. I watched you start off on an SR250 -- yes, not much better than a GN250, an acceptable commuter. Then straight to an 100hp 750, then to an RF900, a large massively powerful sports tourer. I don't know quite how to put it in words, but there's a certain attitude there that tells me you need to spend time on an SRX400 or even Jim2's Kat to learn more about two wheels. I'm hardly an old hat -- I've only been riding a bit less than twice the amount than you have -- but I personally (and rather boastfully) think I've cottoned on to what motorcycling is perhaps about.

0-100kph times, radar scanners and doing runners from the police it ain't.

[darkwolf]

Are these around your area? Morrinsville that is.

Pretty much you can easy do a drive to include all of em and if you're up for it include a gravel road or two for added entertainment. I don't do them so often anymore - petrol prices, theives and flatmates stealing radar detectors have seen to that. But when I used to they were great.

[Brett]

Straights are all good. I am straight, I like my whiskky straight and I like people to deal with me straight. However a dead long straight piece of road can be a tad boring, unless there is some corner you can then nail hard under brakes into...and then a whole lot more corners...

[Boob Johnson]

Come for a ride with Twinkle on his GN250 some time. He'll run fucking rings around your Riffer in the twisty bits.

I think you missed the point of biking in general. I watched you start off on an SR250 -- yes, not much better than a GN250, an acceptable commuter. Then straight to an 100hp 750, then to an RF900, a large massively powerful sports tourer. I don't know quite how to put it in words, but there's a certain attitude there that tells me you need to spend time on an SRX400 or even Jim2's Kat to learn more about two wheels. I'm hardly an old hat -- I've only been riding a bit less than twice the amount than you have -- but I personally (and rather boastfully) think I've cottoned on to what motorcycling is perhaps about.

0-100kph times, radar scanners and doing runners from the police it ain't.
You didn't watch shit clown. Ive never owned a 750 before, ridden them before yes. Have been riding on & off since I was a kid (long time), got back into biking at the start of the year. Any other assumptions you'd like to make while were at it? Im by no stretch of the imagination a top rider im first to admit.


ps: wtf are you on about anyway??? (coming from a 19 year kid with a 250 named Natalie lol) I started a simple thread asking people where there fav straights were now you & a one or two others attempt to turn this into a "oh if you like straights you obviously don't know how to ride a bike"


As said I love ALL roads...........as long as im riding im happier than an a pig in shit. If you want to argue over nothing, piss off to PD clown :bash:

[jade]

any piece of the northern motorway, notably, across the harbour bridge maxing out at 200 over the crest toward fanshawe wind lifting my front end
then heading downhill to a sweet left hander 5 lanes wide - note the concrete barriers
note my bike maxes out at 200
note I hit 180 9 days outa 10
note I aint got a licence
note You wont catch me breaking the speed limit again !!

[MVnut]

Haven't read all this thread but if no-one's mentioned it there is/was a 13km straight just out the back of Manfield where certain people who shall remain nameless used to do 'plug chops' and other racer stuff lol:banana:ps it was a bit bumpy

[Boob Johnson]

Haven't read all this thread but if no-one's mentioned it there is/was a 13km straight just out the back of Manfield where certain people who shall remain nameless used to do 'plug chops' and other racer stuff lol:banana:ps it was a bit bumpy


Um "plug chops?"


Do enlighten me :corn:

[MVnut]

Um "plug chops?"


Do enlighten me :corn:

Go flat out, then kill the engine at full revs, take the plugs out and you can read them to see how the mixture is. Easy

[xwhatsit]

You didn't watch shit clown.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=51676 -- a thread of yours entitled `WOOT!!! Just bought my first big bike'

My assumption about your attitude was based on you suggesting that I would be frustrated with the fact my bike makes 26hp (on a good day :woohoo:). And a cursory glance at your post history. Not hard to put two and two together. Nothing to do with your enjoyment of straight bits, more to do with your reactions to those who replied.

[No FX]

Well there are a couple of nice straight roads around Canterbury...

To mention two notables:

Old Tram Road near Oxford - Russel Wright and Bob Burns set a couple of land speed records there back in 1955 on the 27th of July. (261 km/h for a sidecar and 298 km/h for a motorcycle).

Chertsey-Kyle Road near Ashburton - Phil Garrett and Glenn Hayward set the new land speed record for a side car at 271 km/h on the 12th of July 2005.

There are many more however, the Canterbrian plains are good for flat straight roads.

wow 50years later and that record has only been neaten by 10kph!!!
that is awesome:Punk:

[Boob Johnson]

Nothing to do with your enjoyment of straight bits, more to do with your reactions to those who replied.


Kiddo I call a spade a spade if you find that offensive go see a therapist, I really couldn't care or less what you think. When you assume all you do is make an ass out of u and me



Now piss off to bed & stop taking this thread off topic :spanking:

[jrandom]

Kiddo I call a spade a spade if you find that offensive go see a therapist, I really couldn't care or less what you think.

At first I thought you were just an idiot, but it would appear that you're also an offensive twat.

:sherlock:

The whole concept behind your thread here is alien to the mindset of anyone who truly enjoys motorcycling. xerxesdaphat 'gets' it, and you don't. You would be well advised to stop blustering and shut up.

[NiggleC]

North Canterbury, SH1 past the police truck check point heading north, turn left opposite that big winery. over the railway line, slight LH kink and there you are. Nice bit of wide straight road, recently sealed and only grapes and olives being grown so no escaped sheep to deal with. This road is, of course, best enjoyed at 100km/hr. did i mention that is less than 1km from a police truck stop??

[Katman]

Fuck me, I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that there's motorcyclists out there that have "favourite stretches of straight road". I mean, WTF???

[NiggleC]

Straight roads are a fact of life in canterbury. perhaps i misunderstood the tone of this thread.:doh: i thought it was merely hinting at a place where a rider, if they were inclined, were able to explore various levels of performance on a straight piece of road.

[HDTboy]

I love the corners as much as I love the straights to be honest, they each have there own appeal, as long as im riding im happy. Just because your 2 fiddy couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding doesn't mean you have to take out your frustrations on a big sprotsbike rider now. This thread is about one aspect of riding, my bike does both, sorry bout yours :bleh:
You love straights as much as corners?

What's your big sportsbike?

Are there only two aspects to motorcycle riding? Sounds pretty easy to master

The whole concept behind your thread here is alien to the mindset of anyone who truly enjoys motorcycling. xerxesdaphat 'gets' it, and you don't. You would be well advised to stop blustering and shut up.

I truly enjoy motorcycling. Both of its aspects.

[Boob Johnson]

The whole concept behind your thread here is alien to the mindset of anyone who truly enjoys motorcycling. xerxesdaphat 'gets' it, and you don't. You would be well advised to stop blustering and shut up.
Pull ya farkin head in clown. If I knew this was going to be a pissing party about who "gets" motorcycling & who doesn't I would of bought my formal cod piece :p


I suppose the others that have posted are also aren't true bikers either?


JR you just showed yourself to be a complete & utter twat with that post sorry mate so much so that it is possible that it is just a troll because in all honesty anyone who truly believes that someone who enjoys straights AND corners doesn't get motorcycling would have to be a bit of moron, I would expect that kind of statement from SM or Zero brain cells, not you.


ps: I would be well advised? lol



Fuck me, I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that there's motorcyclists out there that have "favourite stretches of straight road". I mean, WTF???
Tis a weird concept to grasp isn't, I mean fancy anyone on a bike wanting nice smooth, safe roads to ride on, who would of thought :shit:



ps: you have some magic stretches round your area



Straight roads are a fact of life in canterbury. perhaps i misunderstood the tone of this thread.:doh: i thought it was merely hinting at a place where a rider, if they were inclined, were able to explore various levels of performance on a straight piece of road.
We are blessed here in Taranaki with a great mixture of awesome twisties & a few good straights. There was no hidden meaning/agenda with the thread was simply asking the question where peoples fav straight bits of road are & why they like them. Always gunna be morons that will attempt to derail a thread with utter bollocks :oi-grr:

[jrandom]

I truly enjoy motorcycling. Both of its aspects.

The big aspect, and the clever aspect?

:2thumbsup

[Bullitt]

Everytime Im on a straight empty road it makes me think If I was in a car right now I could be doing the same thing in more comfort.

The only time straights are good are when you get to pass people or when you need to get somewhere as quickly as possible. But neither reason is good enough for me to have a favourite piece of straight road.

[Boob Johnson]

Everytime Im on a straight empty road it makes me think If I was in a car right now I could be doing the same thing in more comfort.lol nice one, cant say I personally agree but still funny none th e less :niceone:

[jrandom]

OK, I'll address this seriously instead of just poking Boob with a stick.

We shouldn't be talking about straight roads like this. Not really. Because we all know what happens on straight roads with two wheels and 100+hp, don't we?

Unspeakable naughtiness. That's what.

Straight roads are only fun if:

A. You have a Harley, or

B. You're riding at eekity hundred and plentyseven kilometers per hour.

Need I remind y'all that the Public Eye is upon us, these days? And that it might be wise to maintain an appropriate projection of sobriety and law-abidingness?

It's a semi-unwritten almost-rule - you don't write publically about significantly exceeding the speed limit.

It may happen... I couldn't possibly comment. But it is not a topic that stands up well to public scrutiny.

This is my point.

[Boob Johnson]

OK, I'll address this seriously instead of just poking Boob with a stick.

We shouldn't be talking about straight roads like this. Not really. Because we all know what happens on straight roads with two wheels and 100+hp, don't we?

Unspeakable naughtiness. That's what.

Straight roads are only fun if:

A. You have a Harley, or

B. You're riding at eekity hundred and plentyseven kilometers per hour.

Need I remind y'all that the Public Eye is upon us, these days? And that it might be wise to maintain an appropriate projection of sobriety and law-abidingness?

It's a semi-unwritten almost-rule - you don't write publically about significantly exceeding the speed limit.

It may happen... I couldn't possibly comment. But it is not a topic that stands up well to public scrutiny.

This is my point.
Just when you think he had dribbled his last load of shit he brings up some more :rolleyes:

[jrandom]

Just when you think he had dribbled his last load of shit he brings up some more :rolleyes:

But... but... I thought getting in a 'yo momma' meant that I'd won.

Obviously this issue has gone beyond sensible debate, and must now be settled with cream pies at dawn.

<img src="http://legalectric.org/f/legacy/pie_in_face.jpg"/>

Any volunteers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creampie_(sexual_act))?