the motorcycling map of nz

[pritch]

Also why do we need our own special maps anyways.

I was asked that by a workmate who saw the book the day I bought it. So I opened it at a page covering the local area and showed it to him. He looked at a bit puzzled, then noticed which roads were hilighted and went "Ahhhh" as the penny dropped.

If you want to use only State Highways 1, 2 or 3 to get around the country you don't need this book. If you'd rather travel by "interesting" roads more suited to motorcycles this book can be a big help.

[clint640]

I got given Peter Mitchells atlas for me bday recently & I think it's great. The content is excellent. (apart from the multitude of icons signifying campervan effluent dump sites )
A laminated version would be cool though - I used one in Europe that was in a ringbinder, far too big to take on the bike but you could clip out just the pages you needed which was really useful.

Cheers
Clint

[Virago]

Useles rant - thanks a fucking bunch mate................I was only asking about it, 'cus I felt it was a bit of a jip and that prehaps the makers had missed a trick. Also why do we need our own special maps anyways.

Okay, fair enough - no insult intended. It did seem though that you were slamming the product for all the reasons that made it a popular and useful choice for bikers (the spiral binding, tank-bag pocket size etc). It certainly appears that you're in a very small minority who considers it to be utterly useless.

You probably have a point though regarding thin lamination to make it waterproof - but I bet it would double the price of the book.

[crazyxr250rider]

Does it include gravel roads?

[Motu]

Yep,and it's the only map I've seen where they are acurate,although sealcreep is happening so fast it'll be out of date in weeks.

[heavenly.talker]

I've got Peter Mitchell's Great Escapes, and yeah great for trip planning. I leafed thru the Atlas, and it just appeared to be Great Escapes rebranded with Hema (?) maps....so the Hema map went on the Xmas list instead. Are they that different?

Major difference is the slant by the authors.

[Eurodave]

The solution is obvious to those of us that arnt tightwads. Why not stop all this bellyaching & just get it laminated & re bound !! Go & see 'Parrots' or somewhere similar & ask the question.Then ,apart from it being waterproof & much more durable ,you could also draw all over it too
May cost a bit but would last A LOT longer, but as has been pointed out, the info would soon date

[Finn]

My lady got it for me a few weeks back and I think it's great, especially for focusing on biker friendly roads. The perfs make it easy to lighten it up by removing the irrelivant stuff like the tourist pages and the maori translation.

I've got a Navman GPS for the car but I want to sell it and get the new smaller one for touring.

[dawnrazor]

Okay, felt a bit bad about my initial lambasting of this product without a proper look at it, particularly since so many of you had positive feedback. So took myself off to paperplus and had a good old flix through. So okay its pretty detailed and a better option then the regular wises type maps, but one question did occur to me "why aren't all maps like this?", I mean it makes the wises versions look like a communist censored document.

I might even pick one up when PP have a sale in the new year.

Still reckon it could be more robust

[heavenly.talker]

Always really impressed by the Paper Plus stores. Great range of goods and the people are friendly and helpful :-0

[gromit]

Got both Peter Mitchells and the Motorcycling Atlas and rate them both :-)

Could someone who has both of these give me the ISBN numbers of each? So PP is the place to go? Whitcoulls werent much help at all when I enquired.

[Holy Roller]

Come along to our Mountain to the Sea Run there is a motorcycle atlas up for grabs in the spot prizes.
ISBN 10: 1-877302-32-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-877302-32-9

We sell them in our shop

[Phurrball]

(snip) The content is excellent. (apart from the multitude of icons signifying campervan effluent dump sites )

Santa brought me one too! I think it's great - especially for a n00b like me. I believe all the campervan effluent dump sites are marked as it was originally adapted from a campervan atlas of NZ. Guess it was more hassle than it was worth to take them out???

[zeRax]

conincidently i do have this courtesy of that mother of mine, silly women still puts out stockings for us, glad to be moving back outa home soon, love the book thou, spot on mom cheers <3
( the peter mitchell one )

[Waylander]

Both me and Bugjuice have one and a few others aswell. Loves it we do.Certainly showed me a more interesting way to get from Hamilton to Tauranga without going through the boring flat bits.