Ahh yes, but you missed the BEST part of the day - why didn't you guys come with us to Ngawi?
I've trolled about the Wairarapa for years and thought I "knew" it well. The Ngawi road is incredible, traversing stunning scenery and terrain ranging from gentrified coastal nurseries and farmlets, to Tunisian desert mountains, to the rutted ridges of Gallipoli.
The road! Ahhh what bliss! Long straights, fast sweepers, tight hairpins, stonking nadgery, dusty coastal roads with the alkaline stench that seems to emanate from dark sand beaches alone, giant steers giving you the hairy eye from the roadside, and suicidal gulls feasting on the rotting carcasses of the screeching marsupial invader from the West Island.
Stunning vistas, dark gullies, seaside abodes ranging from specialist baches through modified shearing sheds to the odd rotting corrugated iron lean-to.
One-way bridges, "active slips" (nothing to do with a differential), and tiny remnants of gravel highway all terminating at a Fishing village over which looms near vertical hills. If daring you could keep going, ford a stream and head to Cape Palliser.
Except you lot couldn't. You turned right, when you could have joined us on a road with almost no traffic, and adding another hour's worth of brilliant riding to an already brilliant day.
{Nelson Munce} Hah hah {/Nelson Munce}
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Originally Posted by Wannabiker
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