NW Motorway - when do YOU use it?

[ManDownUnder]

Obviously this is only really relevant to those that do use the NW motor in Aucks...

When do you use it? Where do you get on and what do you ride?

Me, RF900 (red) with rear mounted Givi top box, usually getting on at 6:30 or so and heading all the way into Newton Rd.

You?

We could have us a convoy! (a bloody slow one I'll admit)...
MDU

[jrandom]

Red Zeal with a backpack bungy-netted to the pillion seat, heading to Northcote via the harbour bridge from Te Atatu around 8:00-8:30 most mornings, back around 6:00pm in the other direction. I tend to filter smoothly, with restraint. Ahem.

I will not, however, be using the motorway tomorrow.

Tomorrow I will be pedalling 30 kilometers to work on the mountain bike via Greenhithe. May Bob have mercy on my soul.

[vifferman]

Red Zeal with a backpack bungy-netted to the pillion seat, heading to Northcote via the bridge from Te Atatu around 8:00-8:30 most mornings,
I'm going the other way at that time, and never see you. I've seen VivaVee a few times, and some other guy. :spudwhat:

[bugjuice]

used to ride it from the city to Waterview, be there around 5.30, but that was before I moved to Takapuna. Now it's just when I'm visitin the farno, so could be any time.. But i'll keep an eye out and :spudwave: as we pass

[sAsLEX]

I will not, however, be using the motorway tomorrow.

Tomorrow I will be pedalling 30 kilometers to work on the mountain bike via Greenhithe. May Bob have mercy on my soul.

You will have to be up early!!

[crashe]

Well jrandom you wont be going to bed at all since you are going to pedal 30km to work as you will be up before the birds....... so enjoy ya nap at work.... and sit on a very soft cushion.... oh and to think that you have pedal 30kms home again.... a nice long soak in the bath would be needed when you get home... and you may then be wondering why you did it....lol.

Ok the nor-western motorway.... gee I am on it quite often.... heading to the city or over the bridge, but I dont have a set time thou.....
But I always wave out to those going the other way..... even wave to those passing me as well.
I even lift my hand up and move it in a circlular motion if the police are ahead of you for you to slow down....

[Joni]

Tomorrow I will be pedalling 30 kilometers to work on the mountain bike via Greenhithe. May Bob have mercy on my soul.

Good luck...
Yesterday I went from Te Atatu to New Lynn and my tongue was hanging out... :confused:

:niceone:

[crashe]

Good luck...
Yesterday I went from Te Atatu to New Lynn and my tongue was hanging out... :confused:

:niceone:

Hanging out for what????????
:spudwave: :spudwave:

[jrandom]

Well jrandom you wont be going to bed at all since you are going to pedal 30km to work as you will be up before the birds....... so enjoy ya nap at work.... and sit on a very soft cushion.... oh and to think that you have pedal 30kms home again.... a nice long soak in the bath would be needed when you get home... and you may then be wondering why you did it....lol.

Yes, I'll be leaving home before 7am. I will be interested to see how long it takes me.

If I am *too* buggered and can't face the effort of getting home at night, I have the emergency escape route of calling Mrs Random and getting her to pick me up with the bike carrier on the back of the Camry.

The wifely mocking would undoubtedly last for MONTHS after that, however, so I'm not going to exercise that option unless I actually am physically incapable of getting back on the bike by 6pm.

I don't think I will need a soft cushion. The MTB seat we chose is very technological and comfy. I did another 15km or so on it last night, just to check.

And HOT DAMN, but the bike is SO much faster with road slicks on.

[Joni]

Hanging out for what????????
:spudwave: :spudwave:

Heh, I knew as I typed it, it sounded different to the intent....

:spudbooge

[Smokey]

Obviously this is only really relevant to those that do use the NW motor in Aucks...

When do you use it? Where do you get on and what do you ride?

Me, RF900 (red) with rear mounted Givi top box, usually getting on at 6:30 or so and heading all the way into Newton Rd.

You?

We could have us a convoy! (a bloody slow one I'll admit)...
MDU

Either leaving at 6:10 or 7.05 depending on start time, silver KRR150 with ware house back pack (ahem) getting on at Te Atatu Peninsula..weaving through traffic and dodging SUV's... :msn-wink:

[XTC]

When do I use it?? when I have too.

[Motu]

I don't commute on a bike - you think I'm fuckin stupid or something.I'm in the blue and silver series one Pajero getting on at Te Atatu and getting off at Pt Chev between 6.45 and 7.00 am,returning sometime after 6.00pm and exiting at Lincoln rd.Don't attempt to filter past me - I am alert to bikes and I can see you coming....it may look like I didn't know you were there,but it was a well planned manoevour.

So who's was the black whatzit (Suzuki?? all sports bikes look the same to me) parked in the south bound lane against the armco just before the bridge? It had a green fluro vest over the rear guard and a yellow ''remove this vehicle'' sticker on the rear.Passed it coming home,went out and came back at 8.30pm and it was still there - I was going to go back and get myself a nice track bike....but when I got home I found someone had borrowed my trailer...bugger!

[sAsLEX]

So who's was the black whatzit (Suzuki?? all sports bikes look the same to me) parked in the south bound lane against the armco just before the bridge? It had a green fluro vest over the rear guard and a yellow ''remove this vehicle'' sticker on the rear.Passed it coming home,went out and came back at 8.30pm and it was still there - I was going to go back and get myself a nice track bike....but when I got home I found someone had borrowed my trailer...bugger!

is the yellow sticker an indication to tow the vehicle or something?

[Yokai]

Heh, I knew as I typed it, it sounded different to the intent....

Yeah - pass the TUI's - we know that's what you really meant!

[Dr Bob]

I am a daily user of said vehicular carriageway. Usually go to work at about 9:30 to 11 am and come home about 2:30pm three days a week and work late twice a week (leave at 4:45pm). Some days I go in real early, like 7:30am, but only when I have to (maybe a couple of dozen times a year).





I do have a full time job.

[ManDownUnder]

I am a daily user of said vehicular carriageway. Usually go to work at about 9:30 to 11 am and come home about 2:30pm three days a week and work late twice a week (leave at 4:45pm). Some days I go in real early, like 7:30am, but only when I have to (maybe a couple of dozen times a year).





I do have a full time job.

What's the job that allows those hours?!? (you do the rest of the "full time" at home perhaps?)

[Dr Bob]

What's the job that allows those hours?!? (you do the rest of the "full time" at home perhaps?)
Um... yes. Well I think about it a lot and I do work some Saturdays.

[Grumpy]

Yep, use the NW Tuesday to Thursday around 6.45 or so. Get on at the Westgate end and exit at Rosebank Rd. Riding a black GS500.

Is it my imagination or is the bloody queue getting slower?
And as for those pricks that decide to run a wheel on the white line when they see you coming :angry2:

[Dr Bob]

Now. Gotta go home.

[jrandom]

Now. Gotta go home.

Yeah. Me too.

[idb]

What the hell is a motorway?

[idb]

In fact a glossary for us provincials might be handy.
What about filtering? traffic jam? bus lane? rush hour?

[erik]

...when I'm visitin the farno...
whanau?

I start uni again on monday, I think most days I have classes starting at 8am, so I'll be on the motorway around 7:15 to 7:45, getting on at waterview or rosebank rd and off at the city.
In the afternoons the classes finish at different times, so dunno when I'll be on then.

[SPman]

I start uni again on monday,...
Oh shit!. That means even more cars on the frigging roads!