Bendiest road in NZ

[The_Dover]

looks fairly twisty to me.

noice.

[Blairos]

looks fairly twisty to me.

noice.

And the climb takes you to about 2400 feet (791 metres) above sea level at the summit!

[XP@]

You mean this?

When I was a kid at Nelson College, I went over this road to see my family in a Newmans Bus that many times, I lost count - but will definitely be doing this road on the Feb Sth Island Safari

Another road is the Cobb Valley Road (the pic shows the beginning of it in yellow, off to the left side) - certainly worth a mention...

I have it here, But I have it labled as the Takaka Hill (SH60) is that correct?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...20457,0.086775

[XP@]

Add on the road to Milford sound it has some interesting moments too!

Where abouts?
I had a look but coundn't find anything really twisty.

If you go to this link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...78758,2.776794
Zoom in to a juicy section of twisties
Use the Hybrid button to see the roads and images to check the road really is that twisty.
click on the link "Link to this page"
wait for the page to re-load
copy the link in the address bar
post or pm me the link, and I will add it to the list.

[XP@]

the road from fox to hokitika is a classic......

where abouts? please see above post :-)

I have some time to collect and update the list at the moment so good suggestions welcome, but please use google maps to point out the best spots

[XP@]

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I still need some more details for many of the North Island roads (and possibly undescovered South Island beauties). So if you know where to find the best in riding then please post a google map link (see previous post for instructions)

North island
1. stretch of road just south of Kaitaia
2. SH12 that goes through Waipoua forest (north of Dargaville) (Found)
3. SH25a thames through to colville (Found?)
4. Coromandle loop (Where are the twistiest sections?)
5. mountain road leaving coromandel heading to whitianga
6. Mt Karioi at Raglan
7. Te Anga to Waitomo
8. Around the East cape
9. Waioeka Gorge
10. Whangamomona
11. Murapara to Wairoa.
12. Wairoa to Ruatahuna
13. Pukeiti Rd as it goes over the spur range west of Mt Taranaki
14. Taumaranui to Stratford (found)
15. Stratford Mountain House to the Plateau.
16. Ngaturi - Rangiwea Junction (nor-east of Wanganui)
17. Napier/Taihape
18. Parra Parra's (found)
19. Wanganui River road upto Jerusalem (found)
20. Tangimoana to Hunterville
21. Awakino Gorge
22. Akatarawas between Upper hutt and Waikanae (found)
23. Blue Mountains Road, connecting Whitemans Valley with Silverstream (found)
24. Moonshine Hill Road

South Island
1. Queen Charlotte Sound (Found)
2. Kenepuru in the Marlborough Sounds (Found)
3. takaka hill Upper Takaka (found)
3. takaka hill Kairuru (found)
4. Bulla Gorge (found)
5. The inland Kaikoura road (found)
6. Westport to Karamea (Found)
7. Akaroa Gp from Cooptown to Barry's Bay (found)
8. Summit Rd & Bays (found)
9. The Crown Range Zig Zag from the Queenstown End and the road down to Okains Bay (found)
10. Some of the Caitlins

[DougB]

The bit below Kaitaia? Yes it is twisty fun, I have fond memories of that road before they "straitened it out???"
It was a metal road and on some corners buses and trucks had to back and take two shots to get round. Them were the days, I lived in Kaitaia and went through the gorge to get to my parents place in Kawakawa. Each trip was an adventure. Once I hit a pach of pure mud going very slowly. I have no idea what happened,but arms and legs were shooting out every where I ended up sedatily going back the way I had come. Some construction workers who witnessed this near pissed themselves laughing.
On another occasion the clay mud built up under my mudguard. The bike slid through the clay with the wheel locked solid but as soon as I hit the hard stuff it stoped me dead. The good old AJS ended up upside down balanced on my ex army kit bag slung asross the rear carrier.

After I married and the road had been improved and sealed I had many an enjoyable ride through there with wifee on behind.

I very much recomend this road.

[InDeSkyz]

The bendiest road I know of is the section of SH12 that goes through Waipoua forest (north of Dargaville).

I was going to mention this too. It's actually so windy for me, that the last 3 times I have done it in the last year, I have felt sick for nearly an hour afterwards (I havent had car-motion sickness since a kid).

[N4CR]

Fern Glen rd... have a look at that one. I doubt there is anything twistier it's my home turf. But it ain't long. 2 lanes are about 1 normal lane wide. Hehehehe. Massively off camber hairpin and mostly greater than 90 degree corners.

[quackquack]

Old Pinacle hill which goes from clevdon over the bombays

Also woodcock road which takes you from warkworth to SH16 well worth the ride and a good change from the wellsford run

[Fatjim]

The Akatarawa's are sealed all the way.
Watch for the moss on the road through the bush climbs/descents.

I've done the Dargaville kauri forest a few times now and it is a awesome road for sure, but the Akatarawa's make that road look like a motorway. The Akatarawas are only 1.5 lanes wide for most of it and only one lane wide in a fair few places.

I'm looking forward to visiting those other roads suggested, that I've not done yet.

I was thinking if they spent some of the the Transmission gully money on making the Aka's 2 lanes the whole way that would have make it one awesome way to start the trip to Manfield.

Shame it would mean more traffic on it, but quite a bit you can't go balls out because it's so narrow and there's nowhere to go if a car/bike comes the other way

[XP@]

HELP ME PLEASE!!!

I can't find these roads, I live in my own little world and need a bit of help!!

Can you use google maps.google.com links to give me some idea where the hell they are?