Road surface warning: Te Toro on Manukau heads
Ahh, the brown trouser moments are the ones that make you realise how much you have, and how easily it can be taken away by some boofhead in an orange suit who neglects to put out the "New seal" sign.
In summary:
Off to the Outlaws place up past Awhitu on the Manukau Heads. Having a good old time just blasting away (well if you call 110 "blasting", but feels like it on the 'fiddy) and passing the occasional car (alright, all of them). Now heading up the heads there are some good twisties where you can really throw her around with abandon, so naturally, I'm using as much of the road as possible, late apexing and running wide(ish). So I end up behind a wedding car coming up past the 2nd Te Toro turnoff where there is a very slow 90 degree, 30km/h corner and I go down a cog or two waiting for the first straight. There it is, so I opens her up, indicate etc and off I go. 3rd gear, 4th gear, next left hander, head for the apex under power.
Feck moi! Theres a heaping helping of very loose grey metal everywhere, except for 2x1 foot tyre tracks on both sides of the damn road. Shit, there goes the back end. This will hurt. Back off the throttle a little to try and get her to stand up a bit. Thank the Honda gods, the tyres stopped sliding in the right hand track. Here come the adrenaline fairies. Wheeee!!
I think I'm gonna call Franklin council and let them know that if theres loose metal around a blind corner to put a damn sign there!
Beware if you're headed that way people!!!
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Originally Posted by Krayy
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