Exceeding the recommended corner speed...

[Pickle]

That inland road from Hanmer to Kaikoura is fine, like any country road it only takes a stock truck to mess up all the corners by throwing gravel all over it along with smelly green stuff. Been over that road heaps of times including when it was gravel.
Speed signs are indicative only, some signs in the South Island are very close to actual speeds ie going thru to Karamea great road but there is a corner which tightens up goes off camber then flicks back the other way just as you drift over the wrong side of the road.
The best roads are those with NO Recommended speed signs on them as this makes you read the road and not rely on the signs also stops you looking at your speedo all the time.

[Kickaha]

That inland road from Hanmer to Kaikoura is fine, like any country road it only takes a stock truck to mess up all the corners by throwing gravel all over it along with smelly green stuff. Been over that road heaps of times including when it was gravel.

The inland road runs just north of Kaikoura through to Waiau,although there is a turn off just before Waiau that takes you around and across the twin Leslie bridges and brings you out on the road to Hanmer and Arthurs pass.

As of one 6 weeks ago when I rode itI would say that 50% of the corners had loose gravel on them and there are several areas that don't seem to see daylight at this time of year,if you're riding it,take it easy!

[Paul in NZ]

Oh great...

More 'shock horror, killer roads slaughter innocent tourists' etc etc

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydispl...ection=general

Not a lot of depth is finding out if this is true or not?? Having had the chance to drive in other places on the globe I would have to say our roads (on a global standard) are not too bad. Where it does go pear shaped is when repairs etc are done as I think these jobs seem to go to the low bidder. Even if it goes to a bigger firm, they seem to send their least careful employees out to do the repairs.

The effects of these (so called) repairs on single tracked vehicles and car windscreens is a non issue for these clowns... They really either don't care or are too stupid to consider the problems they create.

Another issue is our construction methods... Heaps a' tar and chuck some rocks onna' top... I wonder why it all comes to bits??

Last issue... The transport companies have conned us all that to have a decent economy we need monsterous trucks run buy decent private enterpise angels... What we get is speeding, over loaded monsters, far too big for our roads tearing the shit out of everything and spreading filth (stock trucks). Again, they don't ride so who cares?

Riding a bike is a lot riskier than driving a car but (to me) the rewards are worth it. However, killing myself on some badly designed corner in bum buggery nowhere on a pile of gravel that some illiterate inbred could not be bothered sweeping up while his (or her) mother loving half wit cousin responsible for the warning signs was asleep under a tree having exhausted himself with a morning of P making, dope smoking and casual bestiality is NOT how I want to exit this life...

Build proper roads? It will never happen.. Politician fly! (except rick barker, I went on a trip with him once when he had his T140, now a new Trumpy I think)

How about we just be careful because I'm paranoid does NOT mean they are not out to get me...

Paul N

[Bandito]

Headline should more correctly read
"LTSA HAVE CORONER IN BACK POCKET"

[James Deuce]

Isn't Paul fitting in beautifully

[scumdog]

Such exquisit prose and discriptions, a man after my own heart and he sums up SOME of the workers EXACTLY - a buch of slack-jawed,mouth-breathing, improvident lack-wits!!
Not ALL are like that but it just takes a couple like that on a job and the lilihood for disasteris there

[spudchucka]

Not to mention the general operating procedures of most contracting companies - Put in a price to get the job and then figure out where to make cut backs in order to finish the job and still make a bucket load of money.

[James Deuce]

Not to mention the general operating procedures of most contracting companies - Put in a price to get the job and then figure out where to make cut backs in order to finish the job and still make a bucket load of money.

MY Dad used to work for the Ministry of Works, and every school holidays I'd be out there working on roads with him from about age 10 on. Despite all the jokes about them leaning round on shovels, road repair back then used to mean cutting back to the road bed and redoing the layers, not just patchng the holes. Sometimes you couldn't see the join when they finished. Half a dozen guys did the prep work for the motorway from Target Rd up through Sunnynook, and that was a lovely stretch. It took them ages but the job was done right and to a budget. Not the cheapest budget, but the amount of money allocated for the job. In those days govt. beancounters expected people to use the money allocated to a job, or you got less for the next one. Or, quite sensibly, more for the next job if you'd been short on a similar one previously.