This road is highly dangerous. Can someone tell me why?

[Staticam]

Method is sound, but you might have your coordinates reversed.. It's actually 135-163 SH 2. Doubly sure based on streetview and the fact I've been on said road many times before.

Ah I see, I wasn't refering to the first post, rather #33 Ixion's post - one star bit of road, http://www.kiwirap.co.nz/pdf/1-Star%...%20example.jpg is 779-795 Fairdown Rd

[Banditbandit]

And they're all down in the blurdy lower NI. How come those bugegrs , and Nelson get all the fun roads, and here in Dorkland we're stuck with the boring motorways ? 'Taint fair!

The motorways are more than boring ... they're painful ... Coming south out of Auckland at 10.30am a couple of months ago on a weekday morning traffic was moving at a 15 k crawl ... and it was drizziley .. surrounded by trucks ... when I got the last straight before the Bombay Hill there was no traffic - and no rain ... the bike was so excited and pleased it went past 200 klicks before I could rein it back in

You could always move south ...

[Ixion]

I got a better idea. Everybody else move souf. And leave the north to darkness and to me.

[Banditbandit]

I got a better idea. Everybody else move souf. And leave the north to darkness and to me.

Bugga that for a laugh ... all the JAFAs can stay where they bloody well are ...

[Ixion]

I got a better idea. Everybody else move souf. And leave the north to darkness and to me.

[Bald Eagle]

I got a better idea. Everybody else move souf. And leave the north to darkness and to me.

Then you can enjoy this lovely bit of SH 1 which is my daily commute. Can you tell me if this is a dangerous road

[mashman]

Then you can enjoy this lovely bit of SH 1 which is my daily commute. Can you tell me if this is a dangerous road

you coulda snapped the crosses at the side of the road lol

[Banditbandit]

Then you can enjoy this lovely bit of SH 1 which is my daily commute. Can you tell me if this is a dangerous road

YES - for sure .. you have to watch out for flying fish coming over that wall on the right ...

It's also the one a lot of politicians use going to work ... watch out for those mad bastards .. their drivers have been seen travelling in excess of 170 klicks ...

Oh .. and isn't there a 70 klick or 80 klick speed limit along there ? Too many white/blue/yellow cars?

Come on .. someone spot the cheesecutters on the median strip ... they worry me every time I ride it ...

[Ixion]

I rode back over that bit on the way home from BIKEOI!. I was rather glad of those cheesecutters, they reduced the options of the cop going the other way to light flashing impotence.

[Sentox]

Ah I see, I wasn't refering to the first post, rather #33 Ixion's post - one star bit of road, http://www.kiwirap.co.nz/pdf/1-Star%...%20example.jpg is 779-795 Fairdown Rd

Ah, I follow. My mistake.

[Banditbandit]

I rode back over that bit on the way home from BIKEOI!. I was rather glad of those cheesecutters, they reduced the options of the cop going the other way to light flashing impotence.

So ... cheesecutters DO have their uses.

[MSTRS:Me]

There's always radio, though.
That bit of road, especially, gives me the shits. There is NOWHERE to go, if it's all coming at you.

[Ixion]

True. But there were a LOT of bikes around Wellington that day!. And von Klunken had a lot of luggage strapped on the back (hey, if you have a bike designed to move an Army depot, you take advantage of it). An unintended effect of the luggage was the number plate was very hard to read from anything other than dead behind. It was unintended. You do believe me, don't you ?

[Banditbandit]

True. But there were a LOT of bikes around Wellington that day!. And von Klunken had a lot of luggage strapped on the back (hey, if you have a bike designed to move an Army depot, you take advantage of it). An unintended effect of the luggage was the number plate was very hard to read from anything other than dead behind. It was unintended. You do believe me, don't you ?

Of course we believe you (snigger )

[Berries]

Actually , one thing I think they ought to do right away (and I think I'll write and suggest it), is to put signs along the roads (especially the 1 2 and 3 star ones) showing their rating. Then bikers can tell if a road is worth exploring or not, and not waste time on a road which turns out to be boring. Bonus being that the good roads (1 or 2 star) will be Enid-free.

That was always the intention, putting signs up, but not for those reasons obviously. More to scare the shit out of Enid so that on a one star road she had a death grip on the wheel and stuck to 40km/h, or on a five star road start to push it a bit and maybe top 70 while having a sherry.