SH22 is crap

[rocketman1]

I have not been up there for a few months, but previously have ridden often up to Nikau café and up to Port Waikato.
What I can tell you irrespective of variable road conditions, is that there is a lot of livestock on the road,
On separate occasions:
My riding buddie hit a bunch turkeys, killed one but the farmer grapped it before we could.
I rode through a bunch of goats, now they run every where, if their on the left they go right, and vice versa.
I was confronted by a horse running towards me up the road, I just stopped and let it go past.
I also met a longhorn bull standing in the middle of the road, this huge lump of meat would not move.
Rabbits and opposums are fairly rare to see.
I have only seen a few sheep normally they stay on the side of the road.

If you ride this highway and up to port Waikato expect to meet some critters.
ie slow down.

[dinosaur]

I ran from Raglan up to Mercer on Easter Monday, and couldn't help but think the Waikato region needs to look at itself, when it keeps asking why there are so many crashes.

Yeah, but most accidents have been on the main highways! And not many locals; they're normally JAFFAS coming down this way for a ride on our awesome roads

[tri boy]

Ride to the conditions
ride to the con
ride to th
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[Waihou Thumper]

I ran from Raglan up to Mercer on Easter Monday, and couldn't help but think the Waikato region needs to look at itself, when it keeps asking why there are so many crashes.

Are the fatalities people from the Waikato or the causes from the roads in the Waikato, huh?
I think you will find that the statistics show people from all over the region including your constituents from north of the Bombays contributing....
Maybe some need to take it easy and ride to the conditions instead of treating the likes of Shwy22 and the Coro loop like race tracks! because they can't get over 30 kph on Auckland roads! and feel the need to over use their right wrist....

[Gremlin]

Are the fatalities people from the Waikato or the causes from the roads in the Waikato, huh?
I think you will find that the statistics show people from all over the region including your constituents from north of the Bombays contributing....
Maybe some need to take it easy and ride to the conditions instead of treating the likes of Shwy22 and the Coro loop like race tracks! because they can't get over 30 kph on Auckland roads! and feel the need to over use their right wrist....

It's actually irrelevant where the people come from, the crashes occur in the Waikato. Of course there are multiple reasons why someone might crash, I'm simply observing the roads are in poor condition, and that can contribute to incidents.

Completely agree that you don't treat any road like a race track.

[insomnia01]

I'm simply observing the roads are in poor condition, and that can contribute to incidents.

I've noticed over the years that in the Waikato it always seems to be the same roads that are ripped up requiring new seal thank god it dont happen in the SOUTH WAIKATO much

[unstuck]

I've noticed over the years that in the Waikato it always seems to be the same roads that are ripped up requiring new seal thank god it dont happen in the SOUTH WAIKATO much

Just wait, the cancer that is Auckland will spread throughout the whole of the North Island, then your roads will be fucked too.

[tri boy]

Tanker trucks and stock trucks are heavy users of 22.
Rural area, go figure.
Include difficulte ground to prep a road surface on, and 22 starts looking more like
a rural road to be cautious on, 9loose stock etc) than ever before.
It never was a suitable scratchers road, (limited run off etc), and hopefully the weekend warriors and squids
will realise soon, and head back into town to check themselves out in the shop windows as they ride past.

[MarkH]

At least the one jogger I saw had a nice ass.

Well, with the jogging he probably keeps himself in good shape . . .

[Motu]

Tanker trucks and stock trucks are heavy users of 22.
Rural area, go figure.

Te Akau transport...based in, Te Akau. Most of these roads used to be gravel, and were basically sealed in a couple of days - clean them up, roll them flat and seal. They can't make too use...and sealing a road makes more traffic.

When I lived on Waiheke Island most of the roads were loose metal, and I often walked to work over Seaview Rd....3km. I wouldn't see a single car most days until I got to the intersection at the main road. Waiheke became part of Auckland and sealing of roads began in earnest. After Seaview Rd was sealed I stopped walking to work - it was a narrow road and now I would come across at least half a dozen or more cars on my way to or from work....and half, or all of those cars would stop and offer me a lift.

[trustme]

Was not so long ago that parts of SH22 were gravel. They seal the whole thing & you girls still bitch.
Stick to the bloody motorway

[trustme]

It's actually irrelevant where the people come from, the crashes occur in the Waikato. Of course there are multiple reasons why someone might crash, I'm simply observing the roads are in poor condition, and that can contribute to incidents.

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It's called demographics , The greatest concentration of NZ's population is in the triangle Ak, The Tron, Tauranga, had a run of fine weather in the weekends so a high number of riders on the road in that area. The weather goes south , the Sunday Softies park up , the statistical blip returns to normal.

[swbarnett]

I've noticed over the years that in the Waikato it always seems to be the same roads that are ripped up requiring new seal

I think the reason that H22 (note people, no S) needs continual maintenance is that a lot of it is on a narrow ridge and is subject to subsidence (hence all the elevation changes and tar snakes).

[Voltaire]

Lets all write to the Govt and ask for the rego and tax on petrol to increase so the roads can be better

[insomnia01]

Just wait, the cancer that is Auckland will spread throughout the whole of the North Island, then your roads will be fucked too.

Nah !! doubt very much they will move this far down the Waikato, there's no cafes to feed them