darned slippery

[sunhuntin]

those "personholes" are mongrels. havent slipped on one yet, but i know im bound to eventually. im flatting at the top of one of 3 hills in town. going down the hill to get into town, is a shiteload of corners, and on the last i think its 3 corners, there are at least 2 personholes and/or fire hydrant covers. why they have them in the middle of corners ill never know, but im sure the cagers behind me think im nuts when its wet and im riding around as many as i can.

[WRT]

Anyone familiar with the railroad crossing in kingsland, I think its on George St? Not much fun if you are coming down the hill, but when you are heading up (coming from New Nth Rd) its brilliant - gas it just at the right time and you can clear the entire thing in a single bound.

Many a sound sleeper has been woken in the middle of the night by the sound of the mighty TLR (or the RF before that, or the GSXR before that) screaming up to redline as it launches off the lip . . . good times, good times . . .

[raster]

Personhole

My most humblest appologies Pixie

[James Deuce]

There are two expansion joints heading North on the Wellington motorway just out of the Terrace tunnel. You bank left over the brow of a hill, hit the first one, and then there is another one about 10 metres up the road. It usually isn't a problem, but I was being naughty one day and it was wet and cold. I hit the first one and the back lit up and by the time I gathered it together I hit the second one and got out of shape again. There is a nice concrete divider right next to you there. Very nice stuff. Well thought out I thought. Not.

[Motu]

Anyone familiar with the railroad crossing in kingsland, I think its on George St? Not much fun if you are coming down the hill, but when you are heading up (coming from New Nth Rd) its brilliant - gas it just at the right time and you can clear the entire thing in a single bound.

Many a sound sleeper has been woken in the middle of the night by the sound of the mighty TLR (or the RF before that, or the GSXR before that) screaming up to redline as it launches off the lip . . . good times, good times . . .

What do you mean not much fun going down?!! I've been airborne many times,cars and bikes going down George St,there is another railcrossing in Newmarket behind the pool,we used to get airtime there too.You'd a loved Church St in the 70s,with plenty of room to build up speed we'd hit our heads on the roof of our cars....I've had airtime on a bike there,but not as much as in cars,I'm not so brave charging a level crossing on a bike,even if it does have alarms and gates!

[Badcat]

What do you mean not much fun going down?!! I've been airborne many times,cars and bikes going down George St,there is another railcrossing in Newmarket behind the pool,we used to get airtime there too.You'd a loved Church St in the 70s,with plenty of room to build up speed we'd hit our heads on the roof of our cars....I've had airtime on a bike there,but not as much as in cars,I'm not so brave charging a level crossing on a bike,even if it does have alarms and gates!

man - that newmarket rail crossing and the one on the hill in kingsland are some of the best times i've had on the road!
my gsxr1100 got some good air on the newmarket one in the 80's and i've loved the kinsland one going both up on road bikes and up and down on my ktm supermotard....

heh heh.

[WRT]

Never been keen to launch off the George St tracks going down . . . not only is it bumpy, but you've only got a very short distance in which to pull up before you find yourself out in the middle of four lanes of traffic on New Nth Rd . . .

That would take some balls . . .

[vifferman]

Anyone familiar with the railroad crossing in kingsland, I think its on George St? Not much fun if you are coming down the hill, but when you are heading up (coming from New Nth Rd) its brilliant - gas it just at the right time and you can clear the entire thing in a single bound.

No.
But there used to be a couple in Rotorua (when the train used to go there) that were excellent for that. A few intersections too, where one road was higher than the other. Doubt if they're there any more - blardy safety Nazis get rid of all the kewl bits of road like that, because people can't drive proper no more.
One exception is the BIIIG hump on the road to Orana Park in Chch - heaps of graunch marks from undersides of cars hitting the road on either side after being launched into the stratosphere.

[FROSTY:Me]

By far the best/worst rail crossing I have ever encountered is the one leading to great north road in new lynn.
There is a 15.-2.0m drop off and a corner just after you hit the crossing--
Definitely dukes of Hazzard YEEEEHAAAAA material.

[Ixion]

By far the best/worst rail crossing I have ever encountered is the one leading to great north road in new lynn.
There is a 15.-2.0m drop off and a corner just after you hit the crossing--
Definitely dukes of Hazzard YEEEEHAAAAA material.

Fifteen metres ! About 50 ft! Now THATS what i call a jump. Must be a bit hard on the tyres on landing though. Not to mention being fun getting back up going the other way . Or was it 1.5 to 2.0 mtr - about 6 ft. Still a mighty step. Centiwhatsits ? Millipedes ? Grand imperial inches.

Anyways, a big jumpy bit. Must take Li'l Ratty and try it.

[Mr Skid]

Never been keen to launch off the George St tracks going down . . . not only is it bumpy, but you've only got a very short distance in which to pull up before you find yourself out in the middle of four lanes of traffic on New Nth Rd . . .

That would take some balls . . .

I took a detour on the way home last night so I could go up George Street. You certainly don't need much pace on to get it airbone over there.

I think there's enough stopping distance comming down the hill to pull it up before the intersection. I'll have to get some practice in though.

I'd highly recommend it to anyone with decent suspension travel.

[Brett]

My personal favourite is on chapel road where smales rd interesects on the dannemora side of ti irirange dr. Heading up toward dannemora, the road is quite well humped. If you take off from the lights on full throttle (small 250cc so bear with me) as you hit the top of it the front wheel lifts and some pretty decent wheelies can be had...some brown undie moments too when i lift it too sharply... only got air once on the bike...cant remember where it was, just remember that it was fun...