Fuckwits on the 'Takas

[Berries]

and thats exactly what keeps me off that road. i think it would be suicide to even attempt it.

I lived in Wellington for a year and went to Martinborough Saturday and Sunday most weekends on my old FZR600. It's a beautiful road. Suicidal is a bit much though, it is only a bunch of corners on a hill after all. If all roads were straight and flat I'd probably give up bikes.

[Fatjim]

See, I don't understand the line that it's a good road. It's rubbish compared to how it was 20 years ago, and speaking of touching the face of God, I've never gotten close to the bridge to bridge time I did on an '87 RG250FG. 21 years ago. It's been crap for 15 years since lifestylers started commuting by road and all those businesses opened up in the Wairarapa catering to day trippers. It now has "moments" from time to time, but the potential license spanking riding it properly risks makes it a transit road to other places of fun.

Nobody enjoys it as much when its busy. But go up there on a summers evening around 7:30. You can sometimes get a run when nobody gets in your way.

[James Deuce]

40 years ago? would have been gravel then eh?....

Has anyone bettered Nev Hiscocks time over the Takas (bridge to bridge)

Yes. But "no one" isn't admitting to it.

[Kickaha]

Yes. But "no one" isn't admitting to it.

wkid_one would have smoked it

[James Deuce]

BAhahaha! While following Mangell6, possibly.

[sunhuntin]

Its as easy as it gets, just way to short to get excited about.Its also a bit wide.

If you don't hit the corners hot then its as simple as a straight road, Just go at a pace your comfortable with.

Twisties are something to be hunted out and enjoyed, Not avoided.

my comfortable pace would be too slow for most which is where the suicide bit comes in.
i avoid the coastal road between whitby turnoff and haywards for the same reason. ive done that stretch once and nearly didnt come out in one piece due to being tail gated and no where to pull over. never done it again and never will. i go as far as whitby turn and thats it, and even that little bit is too much for my liking.
my bike and i prefer straighter roads with nice easy corners. usually, i would rather go the desert road than the para paras.

[Laxi]

my comfortable pace would be too slow for most which is where the suicide bit comes in.
i avoid the coastal road between whitby turnoff and haywards for the same reason. ive done that stretch once and nearly didnt come out in one piece due to being tail gated and no where to pull over. never done it again and never will. i go as far as whitby turn and thats it, and even that little bit is too much for my liking.
my bike and i prefer straighter roads with nice easy corners. usually, i would rather go the desert road than the para paras.

I'm the opposite! id go for a 70-80kph twistie over a streight road, my 250 dosn't like pulling 11k rpm trying to keep up with bigger bikes, but a road like the akas and your 250 is probably better than a 600+

[Hawkeye]

I'm the opposite! id go for a 70-80kph twistie over a streight road, my 250 dosn't like pulling 11k rpm trying to keep up with bigger bikes, but a road like the akas and your 250 is probably better than a 600+

Yeah! And your 250 can make it the whole way over the akas (unlike my 750).

[Victoria]

Doesn't bloody look like that when I ride it!...