Thanks again guys for all your input - some sound advice and some comedy gold in there
Seems to me the takeaway lessons are to save the enthusiasm for the back roads and on those expect the unexpected round every corner.
I've recently done a fair bit of riding on the roads less travelled in Vietnam and the Philippines so I'm used to allowing for the fact that round the corner there might be unmarked road works, stray dogs, water buffalo - the only thing I never saw was traffic cops.
From what you guys say NZ should be great so long as I don't ride like a lunatic - which was never the intention.
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