Your nemesis corner?

[tate35]

Interesting! I have'nt rode enough yet to come across a corner that I do'nt like...guess I have this to come

[nadroj]

Yungatart's Corner...on one of the link roads joining SH30 and SH4. A decreasing radius, steepening downhill left.
Pukerimu off Kopaki...http://www.smaps.co.nz/nz/waitomo/be...e/kopaki+road/
First view is looking back and shows how it tightens just as it steepens

And now with signage!

[Mikkel]

Any figurative corner I can't cut.

Any corner with grit.


On my daily commute I have two nasty down hill corners that are both off-camber and suffer from poor road surface. Interesting in the rain and they don't invite pushing at all.

[MVnut]

And now with signage!

A downhill decreasing radius hook.....one of my favourites. But honestly tho, there's no such thing as a Nemesis Corner, it's all in your mind

[Grub]

:slap:Oh no you don't. There is no such thing. I thought we'd managed to dispel that ugly myth. I will admit that weight transference has an important role in how well/fast one can corner on a bike, but I'll growl at you (again) if you try to suggest it is a valid steering method all by itself.

My whinge was that I had been misunderstood. Don't want to hijack the thread but will just clear this up once and for all (I hope). My dissertation that I called "The Bum Steer" was never to say that weight transferrence on its own was a valid steering method. In the same way I was trying to say neither is just countersteering.

The concept of the 'Bum Steer" was to alert people to the way weight transferrence can be felt - through the bum cheek. Simple as that.

So guess what .... we are totally, 100% agreed on everything!

[celticbhoy]

Oh and the last actual corner on the waniu coast road, off camber and tight usually with peebles floating around.

Yep first time came across this it shit me cos although it is signposted as 25km corner you have just gone through a heap of other corners well above the posted speed suggestion then hit this sharp off camber one and you get the first look at the sea as you look to avoid the other side of the road! Now just slow down nearer posted speed. ha

[Patch]

Somewhere between Kawakawa Bay and Clevedon...

Right here, when heading in the northwest direction toward Clevedon.

At least, I think that's the one. The location and shape of the road look right.

It's the only seriously evil blind decreasing-radius corner I've ever come across that truly deserves such a description. It's very difficult to ride that road in that direction for the first time and not end up on the wrong side of the centerline when you hit that corner.

It's slightly uphill, dreadful shitty surface, narrow road which is often damp due to a full sky-obscuring wad of native bush covering the hill it's on.

Vicious.

This is quite a good corner, can catch you out if your not quite with it. Not as bad as it sounds tho.

[nico]

Rimutaka Hill road. Last passing lane on the Southside going up to the top. Right hand corner up a kink and rise.

Spun the car out on it and had my first and only bin on a bike on it too.

It's a great corner and it feels cool to do BUT I'm useless at it!

tep this would be my pick of bastard corners too or am i just ussless aswell?> probaly

[jrandom]

Not as bad as it sounds tho.

That's true.

Be worse if it was downhill.

[Sully60]

A downhill decreasing radius hook.....one of my favourites. But honestly tho, there's no such thing as a Nemesis Corner, it's all in your mind

It was more a reference to challenging corners or why certain corners are challenging. Nemesis is a term that all will know despite it's incorrect use in modern times, I mean how can some ancient Greek sheila exact vengance on you via a corner?

Haven't heard from any dirty bike riders, now they have some challenging stuff.
Anybody done the Zig Zag on Long Gully station?
How the fuck do you get around those hairpins?

[Sully60]

That's true.

Be worse if it was downhill.

That particular corner downhill is quite challenging to get right as you are braking and changing direction at the same time then apexing and starting to drive before you can really see the exit, one of the best corners for downhill powerslides or so I've been told

[MSTRS:Me]

Your limited visbility comment interests me. There is a slight curve, cant really be called a corner on Waitietie Road that you should never have to slow for. Problem is it is on the crest of a hill and you lose sight of the road totally on approach. Even knowing the road you cant help but hesitate as you cant "see" where it goes, even though you know where it goes.

There's shitloads of this sort of corner around the place. On our trip up north last Xmas, DMNTD warned us of the one when you come to the top overlooking the Hokianga harbour entrance. Was he ever right!!! The sudden view takes nearly all your attention just as the road jinks sharply to the left.

And now with signage!

Yep...cos I wrote to the South Waikato council in Te Kuiti to complain and warn about this bastard corner. They agreed.

[Patch]

That's true.

Be worse if it was downhill.

it is an off-camber (depending which erection u came from, if it is the same corner to which I think u r referring too)


u should man up lad an learn to ride tho - there r much worse roads out there.

[jrandom]

it is an off-camber (depending which erection u came from, if it is the same corner to which I think u r referring too)

I'm sure we're thinking of the same one.

u should man up lad an learn to ride tho

I'm doing so, one trackday and one weekend at a time, only had my full licence for a year, y'know.

there r much worse roads out there.

I look forward to sampling them!