Wellie - Palmy

[mashman]

Hey all, off up to Palmy North next week from Wellie, yes, just like the title says... loosely. Is it worth getting off before Levin and following SH56 - 57 through Shannon into Palmy or just stay on SH1 and come off at Himatangi? Is it worth the ride? Concerned with road conditions, etc???

cheers Mash

[Murray]

Hey all, off up to Palmy North next week from Wellie, yes, just like the title says... loosely. Is it worth getting off before Levin and following SH56 - 57 through Shannon into Palmy or just stay on SH1 and come off at Himatangi? Is it worth the ride? Concerned with road conditions, etc???

cheers Mash

Yes go that way!!!

[Horse]

There's ongoing roadworks about halfway between Shannon & Palmy if you stay on 57, but they're just north of the turnoff to 56 and Opiki so you'll avoid them if you go that way.

IMO even with those roadworks, SH57 all the way to PN is a much more interesting route from a biker's perspective than either 56, or going via SH1 and turning off at Himitangi.

[Her_C4]

Is it worth getting off before Levin and following SH56 - 57 through Shannon into Palmy or just stay on SH1 and come off at Himatangi? Is it worth the ride? ....???

cheers Mash

Hell yes its worth it - compared to SH1. Worth noting perhaps though, that route is getting busier and busier and therefore the chances of coming across a or two are getting higher. That said - my last four trips through there (and back) were all incident free

[Fatjim]

My wife lived up there before we got remarried so I went up there a lot. The drive bores me silly. But the best ride I had on the 998 was in rush hour, Palmy central to Welly central, in 90 minutes. I still remember fondly doing 160 under the Waikanae bridge.

[Colapop]

90 minutes?? What were you buggering around for?

[Murray]

But the best ride I had on the 998 was in rush hour, Palmy central to Welly central, in 90 minutes.

Lundy did wgtn, palmy, killed his wife and child, cleaned up all the blood, then back to wgtn (all in peak hour traffic in a cage) in 3 hours

[mashman]

Lundy did wgtn, palmy, killed his wife and child, cleaned up all the blood, then back to wgtn (all in peak hour traffic in a cage) in 3 hours

So take the family and enjoy riding a bike for the rest on my life without inssesant nagging...

thanks for the feedback... if I get away early enough I might follow the 57 all the way as i'll likely still have some tyre scrubbing to do...

[DrewBroadley]

Go through to Shannon on SH56, then turn left just before you leave shannon over the train tracks.. follow that, until you cross the flood gates, then turn right. Nice windy bit through there with little traffic.

Then take it all the way til you end onto Himitangi road, right to Palmerston North..

Link here on googlemaps: http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=d&sa...9&ie=UTF8&z=12

[banditrider]

There's ongoing roadworks about halfway between Shannon & Palmy if you stay on 57, but they're just north of the turnoff to 56 and Opiki so you'll avoid them if you go that way.

IMO even with those roadworks, SH57 all the way to PN is a much more interesting route from a biker's perspective than either 56, or going via SH1 and turning off at Himitangi.

Went through there today and the road works are there but not really a problem.

A much better ride through here than the dreaded SH1.

[Wannabiker]

Go over rimutakas, wairarapa and then you have either..
1. Pahiatua track direct to Palmy
2. Woodville and then a. Manawatu Gorge, or b. Saddle Road to Palmy
3. Pahiatua Track, Ballance Road and any combination of number 2 above to get to Palmy.
4. Woodville, Napier, Taupo then to Palmy down SH1.

[banditrider]

I like #4. Plenty of other options too...

[Moki]

Go the Shannon way

[mashman]

I thought about heading over the takas, but i thought better of it... just had the snip on friday there, so am looking for gentle sweepies and not taka tighties... and no mammouth rides either (Heh, I'll hit #4 another day)...

I did #1 the day I picked the Prila up... nice bit of road, just had farmers crap all over the place and the odd patch of gravel too, so might give that a miss...

Think the across the rail tracks and over the flood gates looks about right at the moment... cheers Drew... and if i'm ok after that and it's not pissin down i'll loop back down through Opiki to the 56 and do the 57... then on to Manfeild and my first crack at a track...

[korimako1]

Lundy did wgtn, palmy, killed his wife and child, cleaned up all the blood, then back to wgtn (all in peak hour traffic in a cage) in 3 hours

Not saying that you do but, anyone who believes that that drive was done is only fooling themselves. And serious doubts that a bike could do it as well. Petone to Kelvin grove through peak hour traffic and return in 2hours 50 minutes. not rounding it up to 3 hours like the cops and media keep doing. sh*t I have even done it myself.
Actually if you take the call that went to answer phone that the Crown never disputed at 8.13pm its even less time. 2hours 35 minutes. all able to be backed up by evidence by the way.