Your favorite twistys.

[Motu]

When they were gravel...yes....now they are sealed....no.

[heavenly.talker]

When they were gravel...yes....now they are sealed....no.

Too tame for you now Motu?

I took my mate who has been riding far longer than me out there the other day and he was packing himself and said he didn't enjoy it at all...

Mind you there was some lose gravel on the road which was causing the back to slide out and he was riding his brand new bike...maybe those contributing factors plus the fact I was about 12 inches off his back tyre didn't help :-)

[John]

sh14, no fucken idea why I just love the fact I can fang away as hard as I want and not be bothered by many cars, the trucks always let me pass, good people on sh14...

[heavenly.talker]

Great roads between Te Awmutu and Mangakino!!!
Awesome!

[RiderInBlack]

Ahem...

The plural of kilometre, abbreviated as km, is also km.

k = kilo (1,000)
m = metre (a meter is a device used for measuring stuff, unless you're an American who also doesn't know the difference between aluminium, tyres and arses...)

Wrong.
Metric units larger than the standard unit have upper case letters.
E.g.: 1Km or 1 Kilometre = 1000m or 1000 metres
1Kg or 1 Kilogram = 1000g or 1000 grams
1Kw or 1 Kilowatt = 1000w or 1000 watts
1Kb or 1 Kilobite = 1000b or 1000bites
1Mb or 1 Megabite = 1000Kb = 1000000b

Where as metric units smaller than the standard unit have lower case letters.
E.g.: 1mm or 1 millimetre = 1/1000m
1cm or 1 centimetre = 1/100m
1mg or 1 milligram = 1/1000gram
1ml or 1 millilitre = 1/1000L

I could go on, but Kilometre should be written with a capital K

[KLOWN]

If I don't feel like going out for a long ride, there is a nice short twisty at the end of Tamaki Drive (which is a nice ride itself on a sunny day). Riddell Rd (look under “West Tamaki Head”) has some pretty hard left, hard right, hard left, etc.. cournering . It’s pretty short, bet sweet. It’s an urban area with school, so take care.

Yeah, it's a cool rd i used to drive there in my skyline (380bhp) every sunday.
Don't give me too much crap about driving a skyline, or just driving

[Fooman]

Wrong.
Metric units larger than the standard unit have upper case letters.
E.g.: 1Km or 1 Kilometre = 1000m or 1000 metres
1Kg or 1 Kilogram = 1000g or 1000 grams
1Kw or 1 Kilowatt = 1000w or 1000 watts
1Kb or 1 Kilobite = 1000b or 1000bites
1Mb or 1 Megabite = 1000Kb = 1000000b

Where as metric units smaller than the standard unit have lower case letters.
E.g.: 1mm or 1 millimetre = 1/1000m
1cm or 1 centimetre = 1/100m
1mg or 1 milligram = 1/1000gram
1ml or 1 millilitre = 1/1000L

I could go on, but Kilometre should be written with a capital K

Wrong!

If the unit was named after somebody, the symbol of the unit is capitalised. e.g. watt = W, pascal = Pa, kelvin = K, joule = J. If it is not named after somebody, the symbol is is not capitalised e.g. second = s, kilogram = kg, metre = m.

The symbol for litre should be l, but it can be confused with 1, so some people use L instead.

Prefixes are lower case if they are kilo (1000) or below, capitalised if they are Mega (1 000 000) or above. Not as rational as your explaination, but it is the way it is done. Besides, the standard unit for mass is kilogram, not gram. "K" is not used for 1000 as it can be confused with "K" for kelvin, the unit of absolute temperature named after Lord Kelvin.

Hence, a kilowatt is a kW, a megapascal is MPa, or a kilopascal is kPa. A kilometre is km.

What is interesting is the use of binary prefixs e.g. one megabyte = 1 000 000 bytes, whereas most people think one megabyte = 2^20 or 1 048 576 bytes. That is actually a mebibyte (mebi = 2^20). The symbol for byte is interesting - "B" is the symbol for Bel - a measure of sound intensity (e.g. the decibel, dB). "b" can be the symbol for bit (e.g. 8 bit) as well. So a megabyte shouldn't really be MB! Arrgh! So a mebibyte can be MiB or Mib but shouldn't be either! All depends on context. Wikipedia has a good section on SI units etc.

FM

[ManDownUnder]

Ahem...

The plural of kilometre, abbreviated as km, is also km.

k = kilo (1,000)
m = metre (a meter is a device used for measuring stuff, unless you're an American who also doesn't know the difference between aluminium, tyres and arses...)

LOL - I got the units right - you caught the apostro-thingy

[ManDownUnder]

If the unit was named after somebody, the symbol of the unit is capitalised. e.g. watt = W, pascal = Pa, kelvin = K, joule = J. If it is not named after somebody, the symbol is is not capitalised e.g. second = s, kilogram = kg, metre = m.

I never knew that - but it makes sense - ta!

I understand the meter (aka metre aka m) also relates to a second insofar as a pendulum 1 meter long (aka...) will swing at exactly 60 Hz (i.e. exactly once a second).

Anyone know any more on that (or shoot it down... )?
MDU

[N4CR]

not a great fan of loading the front tyre, were you the 250 right behind yoshi that caught up to me after that section the time the lady yelles at as when we stopped?

Yeah, t'was me... wtf at the that crazy psycho woman eh

[ManDownUnder]

My fav tiwsty is actually a downhill left and uphill right combo (same both ways) that feels SO good when you get it right.

In NP, heading up Carrington you turn right onto a road I forget the name of - it's the road that Manu Cres loops off.

Anyway - bweteen Carrington and Manu Cres there is a bit of a valley with a LOVELY "S" through the middle of it. Brake into the first corner, (preload the front), flip flop the bike into the right hander and gas it.

When you get the timing right, the front lifts in the middle of the turn (from hard left to hard right) just enough to throw the bike over REALLY fast and you're off up to the right.

I'll ALWAYS remember that one - even though it's 10 years since I did it last...
MDU

[ducatilover]

pointless fact time with dougy..... zero degrees Kalvin is equal to -273.15 degrees celcius 3.14159265375 and all other poinless things bound to be shot down by someone who actualy knows something.i am listening to pink floyd-the wall

[sAsLEX]

My fav tiwsty is actually a downhill left and uphill right combo (same both ways) that feels SO good when you get it right.

In NP, heading up Carrington you turn right onto a road I forget the name of - it's the road that Manu Cres loops off.

Anyway - bweteen Carrington and Manu Cres there is a bit of a valley with a LOVELY "S" through the middle of it. Brake into the first corner, (preload the front), flip flop the bike into the right hander and gas it.

When you get the timing right, the front lifts in the middle of the turn (from hard left to hard right) just enough to throw the bike over REALLY fast and you're off up to the right.

I'll ALWAYS remember that one - even though it's 10 years since I did it last...
MDU

linky


Huatoki street i think you will find

[ManDownUnder]

linky


Huatoki street i think you will find

Dat's da fulla!

but but but - you're up here in Jaffa land... you're from the Naki ain't ya!?

[sAsLEX]

Dat's da fulla!

but but but - you're up here in Jaffa land... you're from the Naki ain't ya!?

yip born and bred Naki, only visiting this shit hole, lived on atkinson road further up carrington, and on carrington road, and went to school on huatoki st