Southland and Harleys

[granstar]

Roads, Fonterra alone have a fleet of 500 trucks running day and night, then there are the sheep trucks to the works (AGL alone take on a good day 24000 sheep), log trucks are never-ending from Tuatapere to Bluff (1000 tons a day)the train has been gone for years so every thing is logistic trucking apart from coal, and meat, and milk going to port, considering this, the roads are not too bad. The back roads here are awesome , just need to watch for agricultural activity.

Group of harleys spotted, likely passing through, there are a heap of bikes come Scenic South ( many adventure type groups likely on hire bikes) and through to check out E Hayes, Burt Munro, and Motorcycle Meca, the bonus to travel up the middle via Devils staircase or via Catlins to Otago.

None of us here have any issue with weather.

So, what has the over the ditch to offer please, apart from Lion Red on tap?

[FJRider]

Highly likely it was a Auckland rider on tour struggling with a road that was not glass smooth.

Probably struggling to understand why some idiot was going the wrong way in the "fast" lane .....

[FJRider]

Looks like SH1 between Mataura and Invercargill is being wrecked by all the trucks. Thats happening everywhere in NZ though thanks to the Nats increasing the truck weight limit a while back. But the other roads are good, and much better than most roads near Auckland.

Yeah, I like Southland, especially when it's not wet or windy. I'm told it's been a real crap summer.


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Do not stick to highway one. Better roads to get to where you want to to be.

No wonder you haven't seen many bikes ...

[Moise]

Do not stick to highway one. Better roads to get to where you want to to be.

No wonder you haven't seen many bikes ...

Yeah, I know. But I was commuting between Gore and Invercargill, and it was the easiest route. I'd avoid it like the plague if I was riding!

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[granstar]

Gore to Invercargill, not yer daily commute but recommend turn right as you leave Gore ( Charlton Rd) , travel to Waimumu, travel further 5 k's
turn right onto Goodwin Rd, right toward Hedgehope, past Glencoe monument a left onto Cross Road and find your way to Dacre, with bit luck you will miss the milk tankers that way and save the wear on the middle of yer tyre.

[Swoop]

How did you know where they were from?

They had all of their own teeth and had bathed within the last month.

[russd7]

Yeah, I know. But I was commuting between Gore and Invercargill, and it was the easiest route. I'd avoid it like the plague if I was riding!

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theres ya answer then, thats why ya saw so many tractors, the edendale crankup was on

[granstar]

They had all of their own teeth and had bathed within the last month.

But did you count their fingers?

[rastuscat]

Gore to Invercargill, not yer daily commute but recommend turn right as you leave Gore ( Charlton Rd) , travel to Waimumu, travel further 5 k's
turn right onto Goodwin Rd, right toward Hedgehope, past Glencoe monument a left onto Cross Road and find your way to Dacre, with bit luck you will miss the milk tankers that way and save the wear on the middle of yer tyre.

Favourite Gore/IVC route. Well pointed out. The main road is better quality in terms of width and surface but the traffic spoils it.

And it has less corners. Which might be a plus for some, but a minus for me.

[rastuscat]

Having just spent a couple of days riding a Harley and waving at people, I'm now stopping as it causes adverse reactions.

I don't want to cause a crash.

[trufflebutter]

When I went down South on the Hornet a decade or so ago I saw bugger all bikes, even posted about it on KB. There may be some bikes but nobody much was riding them. Maybe the bikes are all in the museums? It's true they have some nice roads down there but they think they have all the nice roads, 'cause most of the inbred hillbillies haven't ever crossed Cook Straight.

That's like Wellingtonians raving about the Paekak hill which is pretty ordinary really, or the Rimutaka hill, which was OK once - but that was a bloody long time ago.

Or even the Dorklanders who think the Coro loop is the be all and end all, because they've never been anywhere else.

There, that should have offended just about everybody.

The Coro Loop is over rated. Everyone who has a chance to ride it, should do, so they can decide for themselves. Done it twice myself, a second time to confirm my first thought. Now that Awakino Gorge/Mt Messenger hit the spot.

[russd7]

The Coro Loop is over rated. Everyone who has a chance to ride it, should do, so they can decide for themselves. Done it twice myself, a second time to confirm my first thought. Now that Awakino Gorge/Mt Messenger hit the spot.

yup gotta agree on both counts, the coro loop is to busy to be much fun but the awakino mt mess road is fun, done that stretch many times, but i also enjoy the east coast and waioeka gorge.