Paper roads

[bigfish]

I told you it was a good ride !!!. it would have been bloody cold up on the plateau today.Any Polar Bears??. Cheers.

[Waihou Thumper]

And then posted up a tracklog somewhere so I can load it into my gps and see where you went, and whether it's worth taking sister and Bro in law there when I'm up. Hint hint......

It has gone, disappeared off Mapsource....
I will see if I can re-create it....

I have the road names for ya though..

1. Leslie Rd - Cecil Road.
2. Turn right to Mamaku village, veer right and then go right to the end of Arahiwi Rd. This might lead to a closed gate. I went through as it was open.
3. about 300m turned right onto forestry track that took me all the way to SHWY5 bypassing the intersection of Cecil and Leslie Rd, this is a four way junction. If you have the NZ Topo there are roads left and right off this Rd and can be explored.
4. Crossed SHWY5 right opposite, Fonterra sign there. Then went all the way to Omanawa Falls road, veered left but Ngawaro Rd was at the junction. This road I took left from Pyes Pa Rd on the return, so it was a loop...
5. Te Matai runs from Pyes Pa Rd to Te Puke, nice metal and tar sealed.

From Omanawa, I followed Mclaren Falls Rd then back onto Omanawa and into Tauranga. Just out of Te Puke turn right onto Te Matai Rd.
Follow to end turn right and then approx 1Km up road turn left into Ngawaro Rd. This will take you back to SHWY5 bypassing the intersection of Galaxy Rd Nth (I think) this is the Rd that took me to Omanawa Rd. Veer left and then follow Ngawaro all the way to SHWY5. Keep heading right, this is what I used and I knew the HWY was West of me so used this as guide....

Some of the tracks look navigable as the red dotted lines but two of these didn't link up and two of them ended up at gates to farmers paddocks. I then decided to keep to the Black dotted line as this was more reliable.

Hope you can use this Eddie and all of the others especially the Waikato boys..
I also hope these gates remain open, the chances are much better during the week I feel as gangs are in the forestry logging..

[Waihou Thumper]

I told you it was a good ride !!!. it would have been bloody cold up on the plateau today.Any Polar Bears??. Cheers.

Foggy and cold, yes....
Great riding though, nobody around and the whole forest to play in...
With a smaller machine, the trails off to the left of Leslie are worth considering too. I went there with the Husaberg today and it was very rideable.....Good metal and some boggy bits but not a worry.

[Eddieb]

are you able to download it from the gps again, or did it delete it from the gps on download.

[Waihou Thumper]

are you able to download it from the gps again, or did it delete it from the gps on download.

It deleted from the GPS and shut off.....Bollocks!
Guess I will just have to do it again and this time I can hit waypoints - Markers at the intersections...

[Waihou Thumper]

Hi the trails this morning and went exploring. GPS was good and the tracks and roads were awesome. You could spend days in the forest....
Fantastic tracks and I will look at doing more over the next few weeks...
A big black pig ran right out in front of me, crossed the track and went into the bush, it was huge!

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[tribsanor]

Did it look both ways, did it wave ?

[CrazyFrog]

Was it this one?

[Waihou Thumper]

Did it look both ways, did it wave ?

Didn't even oink mate! Needed coz it was a bloody monster....

It was this one's cousin, but black, wiry and BIG! This fella was round the back of the Rangitaiki Tavern. Don't know if was still there in the morning though. The fellas all had bacon and eggs fror brekkie...

[That looks like fun]

Went through Cecil Rd, Leslie Rds on my way home from the multi M ride. Big boghole about 100mtrs long at Cecil Rd end (fortunatly it was frozen so the bimmer just bounced over it) then all good from there through. Noticed that both road end signs have "no exit" signs on them.
Not wanting to sound like me Grandmother but (always the but) the side Rds are all private forestry roads. Perhaps people going exploring for places to grow puha is the reason for the gates
Ok so heres a road in my area that I should (but dont) know about. Arnold Rd, Jury Rd.
I was reading a mountain bike book today looking for new places to explore and it stated that this road still existed and that despite the farmers protestations to the contary it was a paper rd. Can anyone shed some light on this. It may not be Big Bike do able but worth a look

[Waihou Thumper]

the side Rds are all private forestry roads. Perhaps people going exploring for places to grow puha is the reason for the gates

Not all private, but, yes...Forestry roads. Not one of these was accessed around a locked gate. I did stike one gate and it was being closed and locked by a guy. He actually asked me if I wanted to come on through before he locked it out. I declined and went further exploring....