Sneaky speed bumps

[Greyham]

I was crusing around wellington airport late at night, i don't know the name of the road but its the one with massy memorial, when all of a sudden i came around the corner just to see a square speed bump infront of me.
At this time i was doing aroung 60-70k's, with no time to break the only thing i could do is stand on my pegs to help absorb the impact, i hit it so hard that my forks bottomed out and i nearly did a superman, scared me a bit.
But the thing that pissed me off is there were no warnings of speed bumps, very sneaky! and i got cought out, thankfully with no damage to myself and my bike.

So wellington riders look out for strange square speed bumps!

[imne1]

Bastards! can you do a google map or soomin etc map shot and mark where it is exactly and post that?

[98tls]

I was crusing around wellington airport late at night, i don't know the name of the road but its the one with massy memorial, when all of a sudden i came around the corner just to see a square speed bump infront of me.
At this time i was doing aroung 60-70k's, with no time to break the only thing i could do is stand on my pegs to help absorb the impact, i hit it so hard that my forks bottomed out and i nearly did a superman, scared me a bit.
But the thing that pissed me off is there were no warnings of speed bumps, very sneaky! and i got cought out, thankfully with no damage to myself and my bike.

So wellington riders look out for strange square speed bumps! Rejoice in the experience its called motorcycling.:niceone:

[Greyham]

well there are a series of them just as the harbour road comes into some light housing, go cheack it out its a good ride at night, bugger all traffic.

[Gubb]

Ah. Shelley Bay. Bumps through the Naval Base. They are signposted.

Sweet road though.

[98tls]

Ah. Shelley Bay. Bumps through the Naval Base. They are signposted.

Sweet road though. Is there was there a Navy base or similar along there?Edit,yea thought so.

[Greyham]

Ah. Shelley Bay. Bumps through the Naval Base. They are signposted.

Sweet road though.

Na not those ones, if you keep going, toward the first houses

[Gubb]

Is there was there a Navy base or similar along there?Edit,yea thought so.
There is, I think they use it as a film set or something similar now.

[Swoop]

Shelley Bay. Bumps through the Naval Base.
Perhaps property of NZ's 3rd largest airline...? Oh, that's right "The Air Farce".

[Maha]

Had a similar thing happen to me a while ago up around the East Cape. Heaps of 'uneven surface' signs north of Ruatoria but the bumps/humps whatever were not that bad. I slowed for all of them cos ya never know eh? But at point I thought fuck it, and didn't cut off any speed, until I saw the dip :gob:
Tried to knock off as much speed as I could cos I could see that the road droped away about 300mm :crazy: Mrs pillion got some air im sure.

[98tls]

There is, I think they use it as a film set or something similar now. From memory (long time ago) theres a monument thingy down the road a bit.For my money a shite road considering the traffic, state of up keep on said road,used to live up there way back and attempted madness on that road a few times but gave up due to the endless dawdlers enjoying the scenic drive.(as they had every right to do).Looking back i can honestly say the only thing i remember with fondness about Wellington is the Rimatuka (spell) hill,rest of it was a shithole.