Rimutaka Hill

[slowpoke]

What about an akra on a Triumph or KTM Duke?!?

Cut it out!! I'm surrounded by blokes and it is SERIOUSLY uncool to walk into the lunch room with an erection!

[sAsLEX]

Cut it out!! I'm surrounded by blokes and it is SERIOUSLY uncool to walk into the lunch room with an erection!

you out on a rig or something?!

[slowpoke]

you out on a rig or something?!

Yup, 10 days to go.....but who's counting right?

[madboy]

No, it's full of 180-240km/hr sweepers now. Depends on your perspective.

240k sweepers? I have new found respect for you Mr Jim2.

[Goblin]

*Puts on the "To Do" list

[sAsLEX]

240k sweepers? I have new found respect for you Mr Jim2.

The CBR and the RC30 have the same nominal top speed. We used to ride this road in a way that meant we wheelied off every rise in the road, our sausage beasts roaring and red-eyed, air appearing under both wheels sometimes. Mark V Cortinas in black and white, just stared malevolently from laybys as we distorted time and made the air swirl in our wake. No point risking a broken cam belt to catch two sausage beasts who could go any direction, including the way they'd just been.


MY RC30. 140km/hr in 1st, 265km/hr (radar measured) top speed. 1:16s at Manfield absolutely stock. Comfortable as in all day comfortable too. Knee down, undercarriage dragging, stable as a granite plinth cornering weapon.

The reason I bring up the picture is because the third power pole off in the distance used to be a wooden one, and it used to have a hell of a lean on it. It used to be my braking marker in the olden days (yes I know, nearly as stupid as using the guy in the red jacket in the stands for a braking marker at a Central Districts club meeting on my VFR400) and it was quite important to heed the warning because the road ends in a "T" junction. 15 years ago I comfortably led to the finish line, err, "T" junction, turned the bike off and waited for AJ. It then occurred to me that as he wasn’t native to the area, he may not know about the "T" junction. He left the biggest freaking front wheel darkie I’ve ever seen. He also stopped alongside me at the "T" junction. At the velocity he was travelling I have no idea how he did that. I would have sailed through the big black and white sign with the reflective arrows pointing at 90 degrees to the current direction of travel, and ended up in pieces in the paddock on the other side. I also found out how reflexive the "punch the bastard who nearly killed me in the head" impulse is. Good thing I had a helmet on. After he calmed down we walked back around the corner, and he had stopped in about 70 metres, reacting to the dead end ahead as soon as it came into view. Oddly the near misses did nothing to calm us down. The second picture sticks in my mind because it was the first corner on which I got my knee down. I wasn’t trying to get my knee down either, but AJ was leading and there was no way he was getting to Martinborough last. That corner is bit technical. The road camber is flat on entry and goes negative part way through and is followed by an uphill left. There’s a wire netting fence about 20 feet tall right next to the road and nowhere to go if it goes wrong. Talk about testosterone fuelled heroics. I’m always surprised now by how short that corner feels, but that day it seemed to last for ever and ever as we heeled in at lightspeed and my knee and peg touched at the same time.
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[James Deuce]

240k sweepers? I have new found respect for you Mr Jim2.

MAybe Uncle B and Dafe - I'm "sane" now. In a manner of speaking.

[diggydog]

when i lived in welly i use to ride every week, never realised how winedy with those shots- orsam!!!

[riffer]

aaaaaa ... the hill...

[Dafe]

Looking at that, gives me an itch!

[Wasp]

quick go ride it while nobodies waatching

[Uncle B]

Looking at that, gives me an itch!

That would be sand in your g-string.

[Dafe]

You seemed obsessed Uncle B, all you been talking about lately is guys underwear..... Whats up???

We're in the age of Political correctness now, we won't flog you if you reveal your true feelings!

[NC]

You seemed obsessed Uncle B, all you been talking about lately is guys underwear..... Whats up???

We're in the age of Political correctness now, we won't flog you if you reveal your true feelings!

You'd so be the bitch in the relationship

Sorry sorry sorry

[Uncle B]

You seemed obsessed Uncle B, all you been talking about lately is guys underwear..... Whats up???

We're in the age of Political correctness now, we won't flog you if you reveal your true feelings!

Hardy Har Har....
It's not me that's obsessed....it's your 'friend' Pete that's obsessed with what you wear.

I'm a good Kiwi bloke. Like my Beer, Ruby, motorbikes and pink tights