Paekakariki Hill Road - Caught on Camera

[XP@]

I was quite conscious of the camera bouncing around in the tank bag but more so I feel like shit at the moment (I got the flu). The road was a bit on the damp side as well and I just really wasn't in the zone.
And I never go above 100Kph anyway...

Hope you feeling better today

[zadok]

Great job. I thought it was very effective. It seemed that you were travelling faster than what you really were.

[James Deuce]

Nice job man - that's better than some "professional" tank cams I've seen.

HOpe the 'flu leaves soon.

[pyrocam]

I agree, awesomely done. Ill post it up on pyrocam.com if you dont mind.

[Slingshot]

[stupidquestion] But then how did the camera see? Wasn't the poor little thing blinded? [/stupidquestion]

I left a little opening in the front of the tank bag so it could see.

Picture and a flash movie if you want them for titles etc.
http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/kapiti.jpg

Cheers Dave

That was cooool. Is 3rd gear your best friend?

It was yesterday.

Excellent job, very inavative, might try the same some time though i dought i'll post it here with all the knockers

You should try it and post it anyway...I'd be keen to see it. I don't really care what others think anyway...if there's some advice that'll improve my riding then all good but otherwise

Hope you feeling better today

Starting to, started getting sick at the start of last week and still nowhere near 100%

Nice job man - that's better than some "professional" tank cams I've seen.

Thanks Jim, it was a real dodgy job, I'm surprised that I didn't just end up with a heap of the inside of the tankbag.

I agree, awesomely done. Ill post it up on pyrocam.com if you dont mind.

Let me do a better version before you do...I'll PM you once I've done it.

[Odin]

You should try it and post it anyway...I'd be keen to see it. I don't really care what others think anyway...if there's some advice that'll improve my riding then all good but otherwise

Totaly agree, just wanted to show a little support though. I think it's great and will try it (if i can wrestle the vidiocam of my X for a while :eyepoke: )

Might try with my digicam but that only does about 30sec's and no sound.... but then again... might be easier then a big vidcam...

[Toast]

That's probably the Rimutakas which connects the Wairarapa Valley with Upper Hutt/Wellington.

This road connects SH1 & SH2 from Paekakariki on SH1 to Lower Hutt on SH2.

Cheers Slingshot, I'll have to do a loop through Welly one day and take them all in...so many good roads unexplored...

[Hitcher]

1. I LOVE broadband. Less than 30 seconds to download that.
2. Don't you just LOVE those cagers with their right-hand wheels either on or over the white line? Another reason this road deserves its epithet of "The Goat Track of Death".
3. It's encouraging to see somebody who doesn't go up there quicker than I do!
4. Interesting to note that you don't use the throttle as a cornering aid, holding more or less constant throttle through a corner.

[GSVR]

1. I LOVE broadband. Less than 30 seconds to download that.
2. Don't you just LOVE those cagers with their right-hand wheels either on or over the white line? Another reason this road deserves its epithet of "The Goat Track of Death".
3. It's encouraging to see somebody who doesn't go up there quicker than I do!
4. Interesting to note that you don't use the throttle as a cornering aid, holding more or less constant throttle through a corner.

1) More like 30 mins here on teatime dailup
2) Glad you said right-hand wheels and not left
3) So you play it safe and stay in first gear then Hitcher?
4) I would have like to have heard the throttle being throttled more.


Nice video. I wonder if the cops would bust someone for posting one of a bike doing say 112kph in a 100kph zone? Would the video evidince hold up in court?

[Slingshot]

4. Interesting to note that you don't use the throttle as a cornering aid, holding more or less constant throttle through a corner.

Good point, I do going over the Takas. Perhaps because I know the road heaps better.
I've only been over the piecock 2 or 3 times on a bike, dumb considering that it's closer to home than the Takas.

[Slingshot]

1) I wonder if the cops would bust someone for posting one of a bike doing say 112kph in a 100kph zone? Would the video evidince hold up in court?

They would have to prove it was you riding...I must remember not to look into the camera to test that it's working.

[Hitcher]

Nice video. I wonder if the cops would bust someone for posting one of a bike doing say 112kph in a 100kph zone? Would the video evidence hold up in court?

Only if they could prove it who was riding that bike;
And that the speedo was accurate;
Etc.

[Coyote]

Nice section of the road. Never been up there cause I don't want to go near that cliff section

[she_said]

Nice section of the road. Never been up there cause I don't want to go near that cliff section

haha thats the best part

[sels1]

Nice section of the road. Never been up there cause I don't want to go near that cliff section

You dont really notice it going up (from the Kapiti end) its going down that the view is more spectacular