The Importance of Maps (or why I am not a navigator...)

[slofox]

Went for a "little" ride before work this morning......south to Karapiro, thence East via Buckland Rd and return through Scotsman's Valley Road. Or that was the plan.....:rolleyes:
Got to Buckland Rd OK.....yes, nice road, lots of curves, great views from on high, a little too much new seal with ball bearing gravel all over it but hey, you take what you get.
I had a vague idea of where I went from Buckland Road.......sorta head in an anticlockwise direction and you had to hit either SH1 or SH26 even if you missed Scotsman's Valley.......or so I thought.......
I eventually reached a major road with a sign saying "Racecourse".."ahhhh" I think, "must be close to Cambridge" (actually it was Matamata - maybe the "Hobbiton" sign should have told me something.......:eek:)..."will head away from there and find 26...."
Well eventually I found another major intersection and thought "yep head left here and back to Hamilton"......BUT the sign pointed RIGHT to Hamilton...."WTF??? Where am I then?"
So I followed the directions and next thing I am in Hinuera...on SH29!!! half way to bloody Tauranga......I was 180 degrees out in my direction. When I thought I was heading north I was in fact heading south.....:confused: No wonder I didn't get to navigate a polynesian canoe.....
(my excuse is that the sun was obscured by cloud.......)

[sunhuntin]

lmao... nothing wrong with a little detour! i find it hard to get lost on the open road. put me in either marton or fielding on the other hand, and im screwed! :pinch: little towns really screw me over.

[gijoe1313]

I love getting lost like that, more excuse to keep on pootling around! :innocent: :whistle:

The funny thing is that when you want to replicate your route, you end up getting re-lost all over again! :msn-wink:

[portokiwi]

:bash:Mrs Portokiwi and I allways have arguments over the right way. Latino women and a kiwi male:angry2: Even though I am right 99% of the time. ends with her throwing the map :bash:

[vgcspares]

lmao... nothing wrong with a little detour! i find it hard to get lost on the open road. put me in either marton or fielding on the other hand, and im screwed! :pinch: little towns really screw me over.

Riding South on SH1 there's about nine consecutive turn-offs signed for Feilding - if it's the same on the other side (SH2) I doubt you'd ever be able to get out of there ...

[sunhuntin]

its not the getting in or out, its getting around the town! i love thrift shops, and theres a decent salvation army at fielding. takes me about an hour to find! lmfao.

[madbikeboy]

:bash:Mrs Portokiwi and I allways have arguments over the right way. Latino women and a kiwi male:angry2: Even though I am right 99% of the time. ends with her throwing the map :bash:

Umm, you realise that you're wrong. And if you're right, the silence will tell you that you're really, really wrong. And if she says nothing for a long time, and then when you ask if everything is okay, and she responds with "fine" you're really in the shit?

I'm learning about women. Basically everything that I do, and everything I say is the wrong thing to do or say. Of course, I could be especially gifted..

[slofox]

Umm, you realise that you're wrong. And if you're right, the silence will tell you that you're really, really wrong. And if she says nothing for a long time, and then when you ask if everything is okay, and she responds with "fine" you're really in the shit?

I'm learning about women. Basically everything that I do, and everything I say is the wrong thing to do or say. Of course, I could be especially gifted..

....which is why I live and ride alone.....!!

[raftn]

I never get lost.....i am simlpy discovering new ways to get to where i am going, well at least thats what i say.

[portokiwi]

Umm, you realise that you're wrong. And if you're right, the silence will tell you that you're really, really wrong. And if she says nothing for a long time, and then when you ask if everything is okay, and she responds with "fine" you're really in the shit?

I'm learning about women. Basically everything that I do, and everything I say is the wrong thing to do or say. Of course, I could be especially gifted..

mate keep that up and you will be married in no time:Punk:
But you are right....... Its that cold silence that gets you.
You know you are not getting sex tonight:bye:

[sunhuntin]

I never get lost.....i am simlpy discovering new ways to get to where i am going, well at least thats what i say.

all roads lead home.

[slofox]

all roads lead home.

........eventually................:sunny:

[sunhuntin]

true, but those are often the most fun!

i love taking wrong turns, specially when i dont have to be somewhere in a hurry. coming back down desert road last year, i took a turn off for fielding that was well before bulls. dont ask me to find it again, but it was a really nice road, even though it was pissing with rain. lol.

[Bonez]

true, but those are often the most fun!

i love taking wrong turns, specially when i dont have to be somewhere in a hurry. coming back down desert road last year, i took a turn off for fielding that was well before bulls. dont ask me to find it again, but it was a really nice road, even though it was pissing with rain. lol.Probably through Halcombe. There's also the Mangaweka turn off and Viniger hill. All decent motorbiclyling roads.

[sunhuntin]

i think it was halcombe. that sounds familiar. there were a number of one way bridges if i recall and very little traffic of any kind.

[Bonez]

i think it was halcombe. that sounds familiar. there were a number of one way bridges if i recall and very little traffic of any kind.How long ago? Been no one way bridges through Halcombe for donkeys years. The other two I mentioned have a few though.

[sunhuntin]

must have been wrong then. was about a year ago, give or take a few months.

[marty]

Went for a "little" ride before work this morning......south to Karapiro, thence East via Buckland Rd and return through Scotsman's Valley Road. Or that was the plan.....:rolleyes:
Got to Buckland Rd OK.....yes, nice road, lots of curves, great views from on high, a little too much new seal with ball bearing gravel all over it but hey, you take what you get.
I had a vague idea of where I went from Buckland Road.......sorta head in an anticlockwise direction and you had to hit either SH1 or SH26 even if you missed Scotsman's Valley.......or so I thought.......
I eventually reached a major road with a sign saying "Racecourse".."ahhhh" I think, "must be close to Cambridge" (actually it was Matamata - maybe the "Hobbiton" sign should have told me something.......:eek:)..."will head away from there and find 26...."
Well eventually I found another major intersection and thought "yep head left here and back to Hamilton"......BUT the sign pointed RIGHT to Hamilton...."WTF??? Where am I then?"
So I followed the directions and next thing I am in Hinuera...on SH29!!! half way to bloody Tauranga......I was 180 degrees out in my direction. When I thought I was heading north I was in fact heading south.....:confused: No wonder I didn't get to navigate a polynesian canoe.....
(my excuse is that the sun was obscured by cloud.......)

sounds like when you came out of buckland you turned right instead of left - left takes you toward matamata, but you have to turn left again about 5 k's from buckland rd (morgan rd) then just keep turning left at the 'major' roads. i often take that back rd to matamata en-route to the airfield. i concur on the roadworks!

[slofox]

sounds like when you came out of buckland you turned right instead of left - left takes you toward matamata, but you have to turn left again about 5 k's from buckland rd (morgan rd) then just keep turning left at the 'major' roads. i often take that back rd to matamata en-route to the airfield. i concur on the roadworks!

You got it Marty....exactly what I did.....my anticlockwise circle turned into a clockwise one.....BUT I have written the route on a stick-it note for next time......

[slimjim]

"NOW THAT"S WHATS BIKING IS ALL ABOUT"...Yeah...

[ckai]

Maybe I should right my detours on a post-it as well. Always seem to fluke a nice road and can never find the bloody things again. I remember daydreaming cruising to Wellington and missing the all important turn-off before Palmy. I ended up in Palmy without knowing why!! :confused: but took a road that was bloody awesome and brought me out in Foxton. Only added about 30 mins (at least that's what I thought). Do you think I could find that road again??

[martybabe]

I love getting lost like that, more excuse to keep on pooling around! :innocent: :whistle:

The funny thing is that when you want to replicate your route, you end up getting re-lost all over again! :msn-wink:

That is so spot on. In an effort to emulate my Hero erm GI summat, I just tootle all over the place, I'll eventually find a big road that leads back home.

Howbloomingever, should I find a primo road, with super bends or views to die for and subsequently want to ride there again, I can never find the spiggin place and end up lost somewhere else.

Or...if I do find it they've usually dug the bugger up and made another bloody gravel pit so there was no point searching for it in the second place.:laugh:

Life is a mystery tour. :sunny: