Where is the windiest sealed road in NZ - is this it?

**R6_kid:Me** · 24th August 2006, 12:47

Here is a pic of the Hicks Bay - Te Kaha bit. Well the tighter sections anyway. Can someone whos ridden it give an estimate of the total distance as it looked like a days worth of riding (or half maybe).

There were heaps more flowing sections but if i'd included them all then you'd be here forever.

**James Deuce** · 24th August 2006, 12:54

Originally Posted by Ruralman

I know that last trip was cold and wet but last time I looked it was all still there.

Me pwned.

**Ruralman** · 24th August 2006, 19:40

Originally Posted by Jim2

Me pwned.

pwned?????? - what?? I'm going to have to get the kids to teach me this bloody text language

**TerminalAddict** · 24th August 2006, 19:58

Originally Posted by gareth_d

Here is a pic of the Hicks Bay - Te Kaha bit. Well the tighter sections anyway. Can someone whos ridden it give an estimate of the total distance as it looked like a days worth of riding (or half maybe).

There were heaps more flowing sections but if i'd included them all then you'd be here forever.

haven't ridden it but plan to.

in a car its an 8-10 hour round trip from opotiki to opotiki
I went round the cape and back through the gorge

**Jantar** · 24th August 2006, 19:59

Originally Posted by gareth_d

Here is a pic of the Hicks Bay - Te Kaha bit. Well the tighter sections anyway. Can someone whos ridden it give an estimate of the total distance as it looked like a days worth of riding (or half maybe).

There were heaps more flowing sections but if i'd included them all then you'd be here forever.

Opotoki to Te Araroa is 3 hours, the Te Kaha to Hicks Bay section is just over one hour.

**RiderInBlack** · 24th August 2006, 20:09

My vote has ta be Fields Track (see ride report from last years GC) from last years Grand Challenge. That tarsealed goat's track is one twisty mother f*cker.

**petesmeats** · 24th August 2006, 20:57

Akatarawas are twisty as hell... waaay more twisty than paekak hill road. Summit road up the port hills is twisty and i often do quick (relatively considering i ride an 87 CBR) passes on the bike... average surface though with gravel bumps and sometimes wet patches in random places. I swear i got both wheels off the ground at one corner. Almost binned last time due to dodgy front tyre but am doing some work now so can afford to get my warrant now... and proper brakes...

**_intense_** · 24th August 2006, 21:51

Originally Posted by Jantar

4th would be between Franz Joseph and Fox Glaciers.

OMG that is the most senic aswell, so id have to rate it higher, creamed myself doing that bit... Theres a roadsign just south of FJ that sez "35km winding roads" *sigh*

Queen charlotte drive was a new experience to me when i moved up to welly, i came from nelson with a carload of my stuff, and on the map it look ed like a shortcut to picton.... misleading. shame about all the loose gravel, but gnarley twists!

My former favorite local bits in South Canterbury were the Pareora george (The Makara road is VERY similar) and the mount Michae road round the cliffsides at the hiiltop before you drop down to Fairlie travelling inland.

**_intense_** · 24th August 2006, 21:57

Originally Posted by Ruralman

pwned?????? - what?? I'm going to have to get the kids to teach me this bloody text language

its derived from computer gaming, originally from miss-spelling "owned" as p and o are next to eac other on the keyboard, hence, to own some one becomes pwn someone as in to kick their ass

-or something like that

**Ruralman** · 24th August 2006, 22:04

Originally Posted by _intense_

its derived from computer gaming, originally from miss-spelling "owned" as p and o are next to eac other on the keyboard, hence, to own some one becomes pwn someone as in to kick their ass

-or something like that

Thanks mate, it fucks you off when you know someones taking the piss and you haven't a bloody clue what they've said!!!

**Skunk** · 24th August 2006, 22:32

Originally Posted by 98tls

you have never been up the Denniston hill then...

Yep, done it twice now. Look forward to the next time. Too many straight bits, though the corners are 180's...

Some roads...

Denniston Road
Akatarawa Road (Western end)
Rimutaka Road (Eastern end)
Another road

**TerminalAddict** · 24th August 2006, 22:37

that is an impressive sign

**scumdog** · 25th August 2006, 09:07

Originally Posted by Ruralman

SO guess what I did - I counted the bloody corners!!!
Here's the challenge - the section of road from Barry's Bay back over the hill as far as Cooptown (just before Little River) is 13km long. There are 35 corners from Barry's bay to the hilltop pub, and another 42 from there to cooptown for a total of 77 corners in 13km.

Has anyone else got a windier section of sealed road ??- must be at least 10km long.

Certainly SEEMED as twisty as it gets when i went over it last week - would hate doing it with a lot of traffic, would have to travel too slow.