Best roads in Taranaki?

[kwak34]

hi all,im new to the area and have just bought a bike and would like to know where all the best roads are in taranaki and new plymouth area?............be it for an evening blast or a full day out.
ive heard the forgotten highway and mt messenger are popular?
any good round trips anyone can recommend?good pubs or places to stop etc......?
and where NOT to go!
thanks

[ynot slow]

Do the loop around Mt Egmont(not Taranaki to us born there),both via Surf Highway 45 and Wiremu rd by mountain.
Tiki tour to Tawhiti museum for a great inside to the history,and a few good country roads to it.
Enjoy the area,but beware of farmers,campervans on roads,farmers tend to not look at times.

[pritch]

Bugga, wish I'd read this earlier, I was on leave. Still...

The ride down to Opunake is good by either Wiremu Rd or the main road. 'Sugarjuice' makes a nice stop. You should start with a full tank.

The ride to Mokau has a variety of curves with a whitebait lunch as a bonus. The younger, fitter, riders go to PioPio because then they get to do the Awakino Gorge as well.

The Forgotten World Highway is brilliant, but not without its hazards, there was another death on that road just recently.

PM sent.

[BiK3RChiK]

Lots of amazing loop back roads around the back of Inglewood, Stratford. You do have to be careful about those farmers though, and cow doo on the road, and even the odd stray animal...

Best thing, imo, is to get yourself a good local road map and go exploring or hook up with some of the local lads and go for rides. I did a ride with some of them from out the back of Inglewood to Urenui via all the back roads that I had forgotten about after being away for 20 years and it was awesome.

Have fun...

[awayatc]

lost highway...

whangomomona....great pub for a stop.

[nadroj]

Had a slip sliding visit for a Whanga burger today. Tar was a little soft though!

[pritch]

Had a slip sliding visit for a Whanga burger today. Tar was a little soft though!

I was wondering how you were getting on. I had just two slides, the first took me by surprise as I hadn't seen melted tar. The second time I hit a small patch of melted tar while trying to avoid a big one. A sure cure for constipation?

[Dazza]

Apparently Northwest MC have got a ride on this Sunday doing alot of the Sth Taranaki. Energy Honda have a pie'n'pint ride on next Thursday night leaving their shop @ 1730hrs & rumor has it it's out to Whanga.
There's heaps of good back country roads so grab a map or not & just follow your nose. As been stated before up to Mokau/Awakino is popular in the weekends. If your looking for a longer ride theres always the Forgotten World Highway (150 odd k's fm Startford to Taumaranui) & if you don't want to go back the same way head out to the eight mile junction & head home that way. South Waikato has some very interesting roads, especially if you head up the coast from Awakino to Kawhia & then back out to Waitomo & home.
The worlds your oyster really !!!

[blue eyed savage]

pie'n'pint rides with energey honda or the lost highway. going up sh3 to the other side of the Awakino Gorge is one of my favorites but u do have to keep an eye out for cop's or just go so fast thay dont even turn around not that that happens when im out rideing

[KwakaZM]

I did Auckland to New Plymouth last weekend. Me and a mate left Auckland Saturday early morning and were supposed to return on Sunday... On our way back we chose to go via the Forgotten World Highway.... awesome twisty's... the numerous mountain saddle's just kept on coming...

Unfortunately shortly after the tunnel, the road claimed another victim, my friend who was with me on Honda Hornet 900 did a little off roading and ended up in a ditch..


Miraculously no injuries and no expensive damage to the bike, just some broken levers and a bent handle bar… I saw him go down in front of me and I can vouch we were doing under 50k’s at that time and suddenly out of no reason, no inherent danger he straight lined a corner as there was a board mentioning “gravel road ahead”… he went hard on the brakes and down the ditch nose diving into it….


After the small incident, we took it slow back to Auckland… So two thumbs up for the Forgotten World Highway from Me.