SH 22 is a disgrace.

[Big Dave]

Puddles of slick black melted road everywhere this afternoon.
Worst I have ever seen any road in NZ - and I've seen some I'm tellin' ya's.
Next BRONZ meeting we have to take some sort of issue guys.

[PirateJafa]

Ride to the conditions?

SH16 is usually in good nick.

[R6_kid:Me]

Ride to the conditions?

SH16 is usually in good nick.

You're taxpayer dollars pay for it to be maintained, and when the work isn't done properly then they're effectively wasting your money.

[Big Dave]

Ride to the conditions?

SH16 is usually in good nick.

I got home huh.

If someone said - 'lay some traps for motorcycles' - this is what an efficiency expert would design.

[PirateJafa]

You're taxpayer dollars pay for it to be maintained, and when the work isn't done properly then they're effectively wasting your money.

Nah, thanks to ACC the Government would be lucky to break even with me.

Besides, they need to get the money for the WRBs from somewhere.

[Elysium]

SH1 between Taihape and Taupo is just as bad. So much work is needed to be done and I mean a fresh new layer on the entire stretch around Waiouru and Desert Rd, none of this cheap patch crap that causes more problems then solve.

[stify]

I got home huh.

I someone said - 'lay some traps for motorcycles' - this is what an efficiency expert would design.

but that's part of the hwy 22 joy an it helps to keep the biker numbers down for us locals to enjoy..

[Swoop]

SH1 between Taihape and Taupo is just as bad.

SH1 dosen't count.

[gijoe1313]

Ahh SH22, my spidey-sense was tingling when I was pootling home on Daisy from chez Quasi's. I was tossing whether to divert onto SH22 for twisty fun time home (along with the bad road effects), but for some reason, just did the easy run home on the SH direct back to Dorkland.

Funny thing happened too ... was on the overtaking bit near Rangiriri and there was a Mitsi who pulled out to overtake in front of me ... he waited till there was a minimum length and then gapped it to get to the front. Leaving me with no room to do my run. Bastard deliberate and I could see him chortling in his rear vision mirror as he looked for me.

Meh, it was a good day and I wasn't so fussed.

Then we got to the Hampton Downs straight and I could see he was ahead, I wound Daisy up a bit more, her two stroke motor purring away and then becoming a feline roar. Oh, this the Mitsi did not like - like a scalded cat he put pedal to the medal and booked it. I backed right off as the overbridge was coming up.

You guessed it.

The disco lights display their disarming detonation of a driving error! I could see the lights zipping down the onramp in hot pursuit of the caged convict of carelessness to be Now by this stage, the Mitsi was really moving so I chortled along and eventually came across the stage and the scene was set. Two stationary vehicles. One with lights, the other ... the Mistsi, I moved over into the right hand lane, flicked my gaze across the driver ... making eye contact and I gave Daisy a typical two stroke tickle. And pootled merrily on my way!

The Biker Gods have measured him. They have weighed him. And they have found him wanting! Very dejected he was ... now I am not one for schadenfreude, but it is ironic that I had been the model of courtesy today, allowing cagers to move in and making room for others to turn out/into the busy roads this arvo! Karma? Coincidence? Random Chance? Synchronicity? Whatever floats your boat ... it was working its magic today!

And yes SH22 needs some sorting out ... but then again I love riding it for those very reasons, it has just about every condition that you could come across in New Zild, great training ground and practise for it I say!

[slofox]

Puddles of slick black melted road everywhere this afternoon.
Worst I have ever seen any road in NZ - and I've seen some I'm tellin' ya's.
Next BRONZ meeting we have to take some sort of issue guys.

Not just SH22 either BD. SH31 has patches the same and many more roads besides - everywhere there have been patch-ups in recent weeks, the tar is melting right on out again......
The road from Kawhia to Waitomo today was covered in sheets of gravel with signs everywhere stating "ICE - GRIT"....couldn't see any ice though....funny... "Tis the season to be wary....."

[Ixion]

We never had these problems until they sealed it. So, obvious answer, we ask Transit to revert it back to gravel. No more tar bleed Sorted.

And the beauty is, it will work for ANY road with tar bleed problems.

[jrandom]

We never had these problems until they sealed it. So, obvious answer, we ask Transit to revert it back to gravel.

I'd be happy with that.

[scumdog]

No problem from my point of view - it's not even on the SarfEyeland issit??

[Reckless]

Puddles of slick black melted road everywhere this afternoon.
Worst I have ever seen any road in NZ - and I've seen some I'm tellin' ya's.
Next BRONZ meeting we have to take some sort of issue guys.

SH1 between Taihape and Taupo is just as bad. So much work is needed to be done and I mean a fresh new layer on the entire stretch around Waiouru and Desert Rd, none of this cheap patch crap that causes more problems then solve.

Now it will rain and those tar patches will turn to ice like slippery tar stretches. A recipe for disaster that needs addressing in this country. Maybe one day the shocking road condition will be blamed for a death or two. Yeh Right TUI!!!

Ride to the conditions?

I'm not saying you shouldn't but I reckon this is a cop out the authorities use. Slick to good back to slick etc. If a road has 100K speed limit it should be maintained so you can travel safely at that limit. Its transits duty of care isn't it?? So at what point do you say the road condition is so unpredictable or below standard that it becomes a major contributing factor?? Especially for the 4 wheel drive taxi where the driver has no appreciation of what we have learnt due to our biking experience.
They build piss poor roads, Maintain them terribly so you can slide off easily then line them with WRB's to keep you on your side!

I know a lot of you will disagree and maintain the "drive to the conditions" line in any condition presented, but at what point do the conditions become simply to unpredictable for training and experience of Mr Joe blow?

Rant over!

[PirateJafa]

I'm not saying you shouldn't but I reckon this is a cop out the authorities use. Slick to good back to slick etc. If a road has 100K speed limit it should be maintained so you can travel safely at that limit.

I can think of a dozen corners in good nick which I'd love to see you take at the 100km/h speed limit.

Dadadeedo...

I know a lot of you will disagree and maintain the "drive to the conditions" line in any condition presented, but at what point do the conditions become simply undrivable for training and experience of Mr Joe blow?

Generally the minute they hit Auckland. :slap:

But more seriously. The road is not a racetrack and all the rubbish. You should always have something left in reserve just in case.

The worst thing I can think of is unmarked roadworks, but on the whole NZ's roads aren't too bad.If you're having trouble with these roads, you probably need to rethink you riding style.