Taming the 'Takas?

[Skunk]

Ride like me and be happy

[Slingshot]

On the uphill parts, the bike screams and I always have to shift down to get more power from the bike

It's meant to scream. I remember when i used to ride my GSXR250 over there I'd normally be up around 15,000 revs.

I still think that I was quicker on the GSXR than I am on the CBR600 over the hill.

[StoneChucker]

Uphill : Fast, ridden for Fun
Downhill : Average, ridden to get to Martinborough or home

[FROSTY:Me]

I went over the takas today welly north. its lookin bad on the kaitokes front with all the good corners being removed.
I really cant see any way the best bits of the Takas could possibly be straightened out. I could see how the first few corners on the north and south ends could be widened out but not straightened,-I think it would just make for faster corners at both ends.
As a cager for a day i was able to casually ask a roading bloke -WTF they were doing scattering gravel on an already slippery road.
The story as i was told it was that the big trucks just rip the hell outa the road surface on really hot days if they dont.The trucks literally drive the chip into the melted hotseal.
Ohh and the single lane downhill thing -the only reason they ever put passing lanes in is because the trucks go so slow uphill -but even a billy cart should manage the speed limit downhill.

[FROSTY:Me]

oh and for the record --toyota echoes do not corner as well as bikes.

[Hooks]

oh and for the record --toyota echoes do not corner as well as bikes.

When does the towie get there ????

[FROSTY:Me]

Nahh nuffin like that -actually if i enjoyed driving cages -Blasphemey omg
I'd sorta say I had a heap of fun rowwing the 5 speed box and sliding that lil 1.3l tonka toy round the gravel corners --But of course every moment was total HELL
Mental image if you will
Frosty In 2004 toyota tonka toy.-helmet on -cart gloves on hands -racing up the Tukas - Baby biky got with it too and put his lid on-
Funny as hell the look on peoples faces as ya squirt past em.
But --I DID NOT have fun--ohh no not me.
- OK OK I NEED my bike back.

[Paul in NZ]

Yes I have heard rumours....

I blamed LTSA etc and all the despots that own a country property over the hill dontcha know and all the hayseeds wanting to visit the fleshpots of the capital in their 1956 Land Rovers on the monthly pay day. Apparently the veneral diseases you can contact here are vastly more sophisticated that the semi rural ones they have!

However, it turns out that there is a clandestine group of HD cruiser owners that are fed up with all these uppity young punks on fast affordable sportsbikes getting to the top before them. Originally they were going to install a secrent (and invisible) bike lift so that as soon as they disappeared from your mirrors they could turn off, load up the hawg and zip up there to be in the park by the time you arrived.

However they could not get a resource consent.

Therefore they resorted to plan B. Which is to take over Transit NZ and make the road into an enormous ski jump minus the take off ramp at the bottom (goddam motocross weenies). This will perform 2 functions.

1: Sheer grunt from their 9,000cc S&M strokers (with Julie Andrews cams, gears and matching leederhosen) will get them to the top in a competitive fashion (snipers stationed behind bushes will shoot out the tyres of all non HD's)

2: The steep slope, barely functional brakes and gravity will ensure world land speed record velocities on the way back down... (that will straighten the ole' ladies hair dude)

The simple plans are always the best plans...

Don't worry folks. The other side is safe because there are no chrome shops over there.

Paul N

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[FROSTY:Me]

Paul--I actually heard the same rumour. The difference was that it was the eurobike fraternatety -specificcly a club called guzzlers unite--or did I hear wrong.
was gonna stop in and see ya on the way back up but went the west way instead-bugger.