Somebody with access to Google Earth could check the elevations of the Crown Range Road summit and the summit of Arthurs Pass and report back with their findings, please (don't have GE at work, or I'd do it myself).Originally Posted by doc
Deus ex ukulele
Somebody with access to Google Earth could check the elevations of the Crown Range Road summit and the summit of Arthurs Pass and report back with their findings, please (don't have GE at work, or I'd do it myself).
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
It's OK...I've got a spare!
Yeah, apparently.
It was only sealed about 5 and half years ago.
...she took the KT, and left me the Buell to ride....(Blues Brothers)
now where's some dirt!
Pity, I live 30 mins from there, never ridden a bike over it though. Never will. Hard work in the van.
Deus ex ukulele
Tragic. You don't know what you're missing.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Forum whore
Highest public road in the country, sealed or unsealed.
HASL 1121m, compared to Arthur's Pass at a paltry HASL 924m.
No contest!
"Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts - for support, not illumination."
Forum whore
The highest public road in NZ, sealed or unsealed.
Crown Range: 1121m ASL
Artur's Pass: 924m ASL
No contest!
In fact, I think it's the highes public road in Australasia, if not the
Southern Hemisphere.
Prolly some higher in South America?
"Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts - for support, not illumination."
It's OK...I've got a spare!
I'll lend you a bike some time and we'll go for a trip over to Wanaka or further if you like.
...she took the KT, and left me the Buell to ride....(Blues Brothers)
Deus ex ukulele
No on at least one of those. Cabramurra is Australia's highest town. It's 1488m above sea level. I have ridden an FJR1300T through it, and its roads are most excellently sealed (it's in the middle of a 250km stretch of awesome twisties).
While there are roads way higher than that in South America -- indeed the highest being 5059m above sea level, I don't know at what stage the seal ends.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Forum whore
Ok, I stand corrected.
Still a bloody good ride!
"Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts - for support, not illumination."
Loud and Uncouth
Kinda my thought too - doesn't EVERYBODY have twisty empty roads like that near where they live??
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
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Loud and Uncouth
Took the Thunderbird over it one day - needed both sides of the road and abit more besides and the body roll you had to believe!!
And probably used 4 litres of premium getting up there.
But at least the campers vans pulled over unlike when I have been over on the bike.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
New bikes rock....:)
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