One way to ruin a good ride...

[hardhats]

F$%^&ng roadworks everywhere!

Does anyone know what time the "roadworks season" usually ends for the year? I was thinking about doing a South Island trip before Christmas, but my recent experience on a 2-day blast down through SH43 and back has seriously put me off.

I now have a radiator full of cement, stone chips all over my visor and an almost uncontrollable hatred for orange road signs and yellow trucks...

For anyone planning a ride through SH3, SH4, SH41, any of the roads around Turangi/Taumarunui/Te Kuiti, or any of the backroads between Pukekohe and Port Waikato/Raglan, might be better to wait for another month or two...
At least SH43 is (relatively) untouched. Almost worth the frustration of getting there and back.

[Blinkwing]

Blast, there go my plans to take motorbike to Raglan for NYE. Time to find alternative transport!

[hayd3n]

Blast, there go my plans to take motorbike to Raglan for NYE. Time to find alternative transport!

you'll be fine just add a bit more time to your plans

[Bonez]

Mud flaps and fender extenders are usefull additions one should consider when riding a botormycycle. HTH.

The roadworks are in fact part of the speed ruduction campaign. You'll probably find they wont be finished till after the christmas break.

[Tink]

F$%^&ng roadworks everywhere!

Does anyone know what time the "roadworks season" usually ends for the year? I was thinking about doing a South Island trip before Christmas, but my recent experience on a 2-day blast down through SH43 and back has seriously put me off.

I now have a radiator full of cement, stone chips all over my visor and an almost uncontrollable hatred for orange road signs and yellow trucks...

For anyone planning a ride through SH3, SH4, SH41, any of the roads around Turangi/Taumarunui/Te Kuiti, or any of the backroads between Pukekohe and Port Waikato/Raglan, might be better to wait for another month or two...
At least SH43 is (relatively) untouched. Almost worth the frustration of getting there and back.

Isn't it common practice to have road works at xmas, to slow down the traffic, make people who are supposedly in a good mood because they are on holiday, into a bad mood, cause they have screaming "when are we there" kids in the back seat... well anyway they have managed it on my stretch of road, a nice bit of roadworks too... luckily I have a another entry into Pukekohe to avoid it...

[FJRider]

nothing wrong with the roads down this way ...

[SMOKEU]

nothing wrong with the roads down this way ...

What country are you living in?

[Motu]

my recent experience on a 2-day blast down through SH43 and back has seriously put me off.

So it was you we met at the Moki tunnel....we had a bit of a chuckle about what you were heading into.Personally I don't have any problems with road works or gravel - it's the bike not the roads.

[ellipsis]

....add rain, mist, wind, lake-flies, cages, maui campers, sunstrike, rego increases, nasty policemen.....oh the woe's ....might sell all my bikes for scrap and get the bus....then we could get a site called KiwiBusser going and still solve the problems of the world.....how did those old boys with square tyres and plunger back ends ever get where they were going....

[FJRider]

What country are you living in?

Stay away from shakey city ... and all's well ...

[hardhats]

Blast, there go my plans to take motorbike to Raglan for NYE. Time to find alternative transport!

SH23 to Raglan wasn't too bad itself, no big gravel pits that I can remember, so you might be all right if you come down SH1 to Ngaruawahia then 39 to Whatawhata and head across from there. SH39 had quite a bit of new seal/gravel but no open repairs when I went up yesterday.
Highway 22 through Waingaro etc (the way I came down) was a shocker though...

[hardhats]

So it was you we met at the Moki tunnel....we had a bit of a chuckle about what you were heading into.Personally I don't have any problems with road works or gravel - it's the bike not the roads.

Were you in that orange hire car I stopped for?? I reckon I saw at least another 6 of those identical cars later that day. I actually had quite good fun with the ST in that gravel section after the tunnel. Was expecting the bike to be all over the place but still managed about 50-60kph and was pretty stable.
It's the constant and repetitive stopping and slowing down for big holes/gravel/loose chip on roads like SH3 that are normally so nice to ride through at 100 that gets frustrating...

[Corse1]

F*@Kn road works. 4 sections of road works on the back road to Tauranga (Pyes Pa). Thought I would go for a quick spin out around the akes this morning. Turned right at the Te Ngae roudabout to go to the Blue Lake and wet gravel/dirt all the way up the hill WTF!
Just when everyone wants to take their boats out to the lakes in summer. Who plans this shit!!!

[James Deuce]

I'd LOVE to experience road works on a bike.

[fliplid]

well anyway they have managed it on my stretch of road, a nice bit of roadworks too... luckily I have a another entry into Pukekohe to avoid it...

Not Waiuku Rd, perchance? Gits! Well, it's one way of preventing the roads melting...