Paekakariki Hill Road

[Paul in NZ]

PaulinNZ and I were nearly taken out there one afternoon by some dipstick cornering so hard his tryes were pealing off the rims - cant understand how he didnt lose it completly, more by good luck than anything.

Yup! I can still see that tyre! Phew!

I drive / ride that road a lot and some people are just friggin stupid on it. Yeah, you can go a bit quick and have fun but tonight on the way home I looked at the straight where Madboy did 160kph - 11 driveways off that straight and some with multiple houses!

Fark! Thems not good numbers!

Lifestyle blocks are placing more and more people closer to the city on back roads and all of them by those block, not because they like mowing grass but because they like shit like Horses - horses mean horse floats - horse floats mean heavy slow vehicles! Add in late commuters and mad bikers and you have mayhem!

Had to happen!

[badlieutenant]

Take THAT Wellington suckers!

how are you finding that trafic there trashy ?? huh huh ?
dont kid yourself. it suks

[NC]

Meh, I never liked the goat-track of death anyway.

[JohnBoy]

Bugger... i had heard a rumer a while ago but i didnt think they were going to go through with it!!

i will be intreested to see if dropping the speed limit works... i didn't think that most of those boy racers took much notice of those limits.

i am guttered, it ant ever going to be the same hill!

[Bonez]

Tis tis. Conspiracy Theory-It's only the Govt wanting more revenue, it has nothing to do with motorist safety.......................

[jimbo600]

Well if they really wanted to save lives they would ban cars and run the road akin to a hill climb. Then we'd all be happy. I like the hill. After all iot was responsible for getting me a new gsxr on insurance last year.

[roogazza]

Tis tis. Conspiracy Theory-It's only the Govt wanting more revenue, it has nothing to do with motorist safety.......................

Nothing changes !!! Use your head, look well ahead, and keep a little in reserve ( I said a little ) G.

[Beemer]

Unless they have multiple cops all over this road (and NO, I am NOT advocating this!), there is no way the speed limit is going to have much effect on the boy racers. That young guy who killed himself and three mates last weekend in Hawke's Bay was doing 130kph in a 50kph zone - do you think he gave a shit what the speed limit was?

It's like the lowering of the speed limit on the coast road - the week they lowered it to 80kph a guy still crossed the centre line and killed himself when his car ploughed into another. The boy racers will still find a way to kill themselves even if the law does succeed in making them slow down.

I've never been a great fan of the first part of the road (Paekakariki to the summit) because of the amount of gravel and fallen rocks on the road, and the increasing number of 4WD vehicles doesn't help either.

As for doing 160kph along the Grays Road end - if you're not lying, you're a bloody idiot - there are signs warning of horses along that road, plus the mentioned number of driveways. Perhaps it's not just the boy racers the locals were complaining about?

[Bonez]

As for doing 160kph along the Grays Road end - if you're not lying, you're a bloody idiot - there are signs warning of horses along that road, plus the mentioned number of driveways. ?

Unfortunately there is probably the same proportion to them on two wheels as there are on four. Idiots that is.

[unhingedlizard]

I actually could never see anything wrong woth the highway along the sea front. I mean people same there is no room for error but it is a open road with safety barriers and (al least heading south) there is a shoulder. I used to drive that road everyday and didnt have one issue with it. Makes me laugh that people can blame a road like that for poor driving. Like "we are not going to change the way we drive even if it is killing us so its up to you to change the road."

[madboy]

As for doing 160kph along the Grays Road end - if you're not lying, you're a bloody idiot - there are signs warning of horses along that road, plus the mentioned number of driveways. Perhaps it's not just the boy racers the locals were complaining about?

Don't worry, that was on the last bike. The latest one is a lot faster.

My point was, how does the speed limit impact on the number of crashes? It doesn't. I prefer to think of myself as a risk-taker, but most of society spells that as I D I O T - you can't legislate against that.

As pointed out earlier, the boys in Hastings at 2.6 x the speed limit. What will they do now? Reduce the limit on that road to 30km/h?

[Aaron717]

That was a very fun road to ride and even drive i am very dissapointed that they are doing this... boy racers never obeyed the speed limit in the first place so why nuke everybody for something the have brought upon us??