Takaka Hill!!

[phoenixgtr]

Yesterday I rode the fabled Takaka hill for the first time. Oh yeah!!

Sorry, I'm just still grinning.

Had an awesome ride, just a bit wet and the fog at the top was a bit surreal, but I loved it. It's been a road I've wanted to ride for a while.

In all I rode from Blenheim to Nelson to Takaka to Nelson and back to Blenheim in 2 days. It was gooood.

The Port Nelson street races were great

[saul]

Yesterday I rode the fabled Takaka hill for the first time. Oh yeah!!

Sorry, I'm just still grinning.

Had an awesome ride, just a bit wet and the fog at the top was a bit surreal, but I loved it. It's been a road I've wanted to ride for a while.

In all I rode from Blenheim to Nelson to Takaka to Nelson and back to Blenheim in 2 days. It was gooood.

The Port Nelson street races were great

Yep rock on

[NordieBoy]

It is a fun road
Specially if you get there via Queen Charlotte, Rai and Whangamoas and possibly the Moutere.

[Str8 Jacket]

Im sick of hearing about this hill! Bloody Glenn just got back from down there and he and his mate recorded a few of their rides over it. Looks like an awesome peice of road. Cant wait to ride it for myself!

[davereid]

just got back from Takaka myself... got a bag full of fresh seafood too... ymmmmm

[MrMelon]

Yep that hill never disappoints! Got a video of us riding both ways over it the other day. It's a bit shakey though cos my hacked together camera mount wasn't quite up to scratch. Gotta compress it down and post some of it up since it's about 800 meg for 20 mins each way of riding at the moment. There was even a hippie house bus on the video that had rolled coming down the motueka side. Heh heh.

[onearmedbandit]

Been over that hill almost every year of my life, my family have a holiday home in Golden Bay, but ashamedly I'd never ridden it until last year. So over we went, in the pouring rain with low level cloud and visibilty of about 2 metres! Add in the healthy dose of leaves all over the road and the streams of water in most corners it made for an interesting ride. Can't wait to attack it in the dry.

First two pics are of just over the Hill on the bay side. Last pic is of looking out from our property. On the way up to Nelson it was mint (was in summer), the next day through until home again two days later was like this.

[oldrider]

Used to drive and/or ride over that hill almost every month, never ever got tired of it.
Had to visit Cobb power station and that's an interesting little road too! Cheers John.

[Sparky Bills]

Yip!
A mate an i stayed in Golden Bay for New Years, and was at the Races.

There was even a thought about unloading the racebikes off the trailer to ride up and down the hill, but thought twice after we saw a few cops

Ill be heading down again before the end of summer with the road bike for sure!!

[NordieBoy]

Lived in Golden Bay untill I was 13 and go back "home" each year to Old Thumpers

[Blairos]

Cant wait to do that road when 3 or 4 of us are down that way in mid-February (trip starts on 17th Feb thru to 3rd march)

I used to head over that hill in the Newmans bus every weekend when I was at Nelson College as a boarder - relly's lived at Clifton - so cant wait to do it on the bike!

[Wasp]

and you told me that all the roads around there were boring

see you soon mate

[jumma]

Yeah, it's a good one. Unfortunately for me I had a bloody sore shoulder when we negotiated it. Can't wait to get over there again!

[MyGSXF:Me]

I used to live in Riwaka back in 91-92.. so naturally.. when I got my first bike back then.. an 82 gsx250.. I used the hill for.. 'training purposes'...


A mate had an xs850.. he used to do the Ratrap to the Riwaka in 18 minutes.. he did it in 22 with me on the back

[phoenixgtr]

and you told me that all the roads around there were boring

see you soon mate

Well its a fair distance from Blenheim and you gotta travel a fair distance from Blen to find a road that isn't straight.

The hill is like the rimutakas but better and longer. You'll have to do a tour down here sometime. Not long now till both of us can get our fulls.

Later