Cape Palliser Rd to Ngapotiki Road, White Rock

[smoky]

Can any one tell me if the paper road between Cape Palliser Rd and Ngapotiki Road, White Rock, is ridable on road bikes. Bandit 1200 and a couple of CBR 600's

We don’t mind dirt/gravel roads, just want to know if you think we could get right thru.

Is there any permissions you need to get, and if so - from whom?
Any advise appreciated

[Viscount Montgomery]

The station owner is an old dutchy prick who locked the gate at the whiterock end. Dunno about now, but he used to demand a fee of $100 if you asked for access. And coming from the palliser side, the local horis have signs telling you can't walk off the track down to the sea. Wankers. You'd actually get thru on a road bike, would be a few dramas though. There's some real rocky steep bits and a few loose sand/gravel parts. Used to be an awesome track until the dutchy and horis fucked it for everyone

[xr-rider]

The station owner is an old dutchy prick who locked the gate at the whiterock end. Dunno about now, but he used to demand a fee of $100 if you asked for access. And coming from the palliser side, the local horis have signs telling you can't walk off the track down to the sea. Wankers. You'd actually get thru on a road bike, would be a few dramas though. There's some real rocky steep bits and a few loose sand/gravel parts. Used to be an awesome track until the dutchy and horis fucked it for everyone

The 'dutchy prick' actually locked that gated to stop damage being caused and he isn't actually a prick, he is a very nice guy

[dogsnbikes]

Can any one tell me if the paper road between Cape Palliser Rd and Ngapotiki Road, White Rock, is ridable on road bikes. Bandit 1200 and a couple of CBR 600's

We don’t mind dirt/gravel roads, just want to know if you think we could get right thru.

Is there any permissions you need to get, and if so - from whom?
Any advise appreciated

4x4 track,sand traps,bog holes

but the road to white rock use to be ace if you feel like double backing just to say you have been there

[dogsnbikes]

The station owner is an old dutchy prick who locked the gate at the whiterock end. Dunno about now, but he used to demand a fee of $100 if you asked for access. And coming from the palliser side, the local horis have signs telling you can't walk off the track down to the sea. Wankers. You'd actually get thru on a road bike, would be a few dramas though. There's some real rocky steep bits and a few loose sand/gravel parts. Used to be an awesome track until the dutchy and horis fucked it for everyone

the $100 fee was for a key which he did so many a year and meant you could come and go as often as you want

being a paper road meant he was responsible for the maintenance of the section through his farm.....so why not recoupe the cost

[Howie]

Hi, Have a look at some of the pictures in this thread, a group of us went around there in March. I'd say that part of the road isn't really in good enough condition for going through on a road bike. http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...=94817&page=10

Cheers

Paul

[Skunk]

I watched a girl two up on a FJ1200 ride as far as the shingle slope. Awesome the way she got through the streams and rocks. Well beyond my skills.

I hard a DR250 at the time and that wasn't a problem. Wouldn't try it on any road bike I liked though...

[F5 Dave]

C'mon Skunk you know the rules;

Pictures or it didn't happen.

To get a roadbike around from Whiterock side you have to be certifiably mad.

he grannys route (Ngawi side) was still pretty hard down rock steps & stream crossings & bogs.

Jeff showed up one year around the adventure route on a GPz600 at night. But fortunately his sanity was never in question

[F5 Dave]

. . . oh hold on a min, [digs in the archives]

The two girls came in the same time as me & just in view is a GSX750 the other lass was riding. This was just after the rock steps. I was more sensibly astride an FA50

[junkmanjoe]

yip thats one mother load on the little bike....

as howie says, i took a group in there a little while ago.

we had a DR -650 bust a hole in its sump....
it was a difficult ride to arrange, need three different owners to agree for us to go through, and a golden hand shake at the end....

its not road bike country..

JMJ

[F5 Dave]

Funny you should say that, one year a K100 Beemer holed it's sump. The guy went off to the (not so) local servo to try find something to epoxy it up with & returned to find someone had already fixed it. Stayed with that repair I believe.

[junkmanjoe]

i am going to try and get us in there again in near future...not sure how we get on this time, but ill try.
id say 80% of the ride is good, but the big shingle scree slope...thats soft.and need a far bit of speed, and spider legs to keep it up right..