Devious East Coast Goodness.

**Delphinus** · 29th July 2007, 23:55

Planning on a wee trip up the north island in summer (prob feb) to visit some family, and want to make the most of it. Was thinking of coming back via the east take a few days to enjoy it, and was wondering where are the good roads, what routes to take, where to stay the night etc? (Backpackers etc)

Looking at covering plenty of km's, but not too extreme, maybe 6 hours a day on the bike.
Going from Warkworth prob via coromandel, east cape, maybe castle point.

Will be on a sprots bike so tar baby only please.

Suggest me!

**clint640** · 30th July 2007, 11:58

That's a good run, just hug the coast as much as the tar will let you all the way down & you'll be sweet!

Cheers
Clint

**Delphinus** · 30th July 2007, 12:01

Cool thankyou. This is the plan so far. Google Route

**vifferman** · 30th July 2007, 12:18

The bit from Warkworth through Pukekohe is pretty boring - try Manurewa - Brookby - Clevedon - Kawakawa - Orere - Matingarahi - Kaiaua - Miranda instead. Much nicer.

**Delphinus** · 30th July 2007, 12:26

Good thinking thankyou. Updated.

**JimO** · 30th July 2007, 14:36

what happened to your 2fiddy in the end

**Delphinus** · 30th July 2007, 14:40

After blowing it up (ran the big end bearing) I just last week ended up selling it to whats-his-name at SPV. Got a good price for it considering the work it would have taken to get it working again then try and sell it like that.

**Maha** · 30th July 2007, 14:53

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Cool thankyou. This is the plan so far. Google Route

Are you staying here in Warkworth Delphinus?...are you planning on riding up or buying a bike up this way to ride home?

**Delphinus** · 30th July 2007, 14:57

Nah its a round trip thing. My grandparents live up in warkworth.Route Up
Wanna join us (might be riding up with a friend) to show us your roads up to kaitaia?

**Maha** · 30th July 2007, 15:07

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Nah its a round trip thing. My grandparents live up in warkworth.Route Up
Wanna join us (might be riding up with a friend) to show us your roads up to kaitaia?

Shit yeah no worries, im sure i can scrape together a few join in on the trip North of here, hopefully its a weekend.

**Delphinus** · 30th July 2007, 15:10

Originally Posted by maha man

Shit yeah no worries, im sure i can scrape together a few join in on the trip North of here, hopefully its a weekend.

Sounds like a plan. I'm sure I can work backwards to make sure I'm there over a weekend.

**Delphinus** · 30th July 2007, 15:31

Is Warkworth to Kaitaia a 1 or 2 day thing if you are taking interesting roads?

**Maha** · 30th July 2007, 15:39

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Is Warkworth to Kaitaia a 1 or 2 day thing if you are taking interesting roads?

Could be a big day if you take the 'long' way...thats out through Dargaville/Waipoua Forrest/Opononi etc... you would the best part of the day for that taking in stops. To give you some idea from here to Kerikeri is about 2 1/2 hours without a stop and straight up SH1 (which is all that bad a road really)

**Delphinus** · 30th July 2007, 15:42

Originally Posted by maha man

Could be a big day if you take the 'long' way...thats out through Dargaville/Waipoua Forrest/Opononi etc... you would the best part of the day for that taking in stops. To give you some idea from here to Kerikeri is about 2 1/2 hours without a stop and straight up SH1 (which is all that bad a road really)

So if you wanted to enjoy yourself do it over 2 days?