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whufcok
26th January 2009, 10:06
Went through the gateway tunnel yesterday bike sounded amazing do yourself a favour and go and have a listen to yours:2thumbsup
roy.nz
26th January 2009, 10:16
Dont worry doing that tonight, gonna coast through and have a good rev through there. :banana:
Brooke
26th January 2009, 10:45
Awesome! Want to head up that way, may be doing it next weekend. Was there many people on there?
Usarka
26th January 2009, 10:47
What works best, hi rev screaming, or more of a potato-potato cruise....?
Tank
26th January 2009, 11:29
I went thru the day before it opened on a charity ride. About 200 bikes in the tunnel at one time.
Even my little fella on the back said "WOW dad that sounded cool!!!"
musicman
26th January 2009, 16:11
I went thru the day before it opened on a charity ride. About 200 bikes in the tunnel at one time.
Even my little fella on the back said "WOW dad that sounded cool!!!"
Was that this ride (http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpuMoj0Qa0)?
I went through it yesterday afternoon, before I had a chance to actually listen for my exhaust I was out of the tunnel already. WAAAAY too short. :yawn:
MidnightMike
26th January 2009, 16:15
What works best, hi rev screaming, or more of a potato-potato cruise....?
potato-potato? pfft, more like the roar of a decent V twin! :woohoo:
Rockbuddy
26th January 2009, 16:24
I went thru the day before it opened on a charity ride. About 200 bikes in the tunnel at one time.
Even my little fella on the back said "WOW dad that sounded cool!!!"
what was the charity? who organised it and why wasnt it advertised very well, would've loved to have been on that ride and know of quite a few others that would've been there as well
Swoop
26th January 2009, 16:31
pfft, more like the roar of a decent V twin!:cry:
Pfft, more like the roar of a decent V4:devil2:
sAsLEX
26th January 2009, 16:43
WAAAAY too short. :yawn:
Yeah I was well underwhelmed at this "feat" of engineering that was "completed well ahead of schedule"...........go to Austria et al to see proper road engineering.
Cheers for the cheese graters LTNZ!
musicman
26th January 2009, 19:56
Yeah I was well underwhelmed at this "feat" of engineering that was "completed well ahead of schedule"...........go to Austria et al to see proper road engineering.
That reminds me, last time I was in Taiwan in Jan 2007 I went through the "Snow Mountain Tunnel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsuehshan_Tunnel)", a series of 3 tunnels that total 12.9km (with the longest being 7+km, from memory - they have signs at the start with the tunnel lengths). The tunnels took 14 years to build and is the 5th longest in the world. I would love to ride a large capacity V-Twin with aftermarket pipes through that, but alas, motorcycles are not permitted on the freeways in Taiwan... yet.
mikeey01
26th January 2009, 20:21
Nothing beats the sweeeeeeeet sound of a Ducati on de-acceleration in a tunnel!
mmmmmmmmmm nice :love:
Now that's given me an idea....
Staintune testing the lyttelton tunnel with a video camera :)
all 2596 metres of it :).
Tank
26th January 2009, 20:38
Was that this ride (http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpuMoj0Qa0)?
I went through it yesterday afternoon, before I had a chance to actually listen for my exhaust I was out of the tunnel already. WAAAAY too short. :yawn:
Yep - that ride. pause at 1.58 for a guy with blue helmet on a v-strom - thats meeeeeee :third:
musicman
26th January 2009, 20:52
Yep - that ride. pause at 1.58 for a guy with blue helmet on a v-strom - thats meeeeeee :third:
What ride was that? I (and I'm guessing a lot of others) knew nothing of that ride, but I would've loved to be part of it!
Tank
26th January 2009, 20:58
What ride was that? I (and I'm guessing a lot of others) knew nothing of that ride, but I would've loved to be part of it!
I didnt know anything about it either.
I think it was raised by Uasilies (spelling sorry). I don't know for sure. I was heading back from the Puhoi pub and rode right into it. I just tagged along.
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