Auckland to Wellington? (or vice versa)

[speedpro]

I just been up and down 4.5 times lately. Could easily do it more or less legal in 7 hours in the legnum without a stop, Wainui to Te Atatu South, turning off #1 at Ngarawahia-National Park-Waiouru-Wellington. On a bike getting keen you'd have to take a couple of hours off that even with stops. In a previous life I have found it reasonably difficult to maintain 160kph average over any distance, like Ak to Rotorua. I did manage Hamilton Nth to Whenuapai in 55 minutes, once.

[F5 Dave]

Seems to take 10hrs in the van with stop for some food & gas travelling at -but not really below the legal.

Some years back & not in this country someone I knew did it 6 & 1/2 via Back way from Turangi & 6 & 1/4 on SH1. That was back when the speed limit was 'not under 140 & try not to go over 180'. Gas stops are the killer. No babies were eaten during the production of this fictitious event. These days are well gone.
Northwestern to hutt.

Measuring from the Bombay hills is cheating.

[Matt Bleck]

Fark you make less sense than i do

[Grub]

Best time, in a Honda Civic, 5hr 57mins from Porirua interchange to turning off motorway at East Tamaki.

That wasn't being particularly mental at all but was at night and maintaining a constant 140-160ish. The key is not having to slow down for traffic or towns which keeps your average high (well maybe a little mental to get around slow traffic). So we used to use Taupo western lakes road, SH27 and anything else that kept us away fro 70 & 50kmh areas.

Used to regularly leave mum's (Bucklands Beach) at 6pm on a Sunday and be in bed by 1am. There's no way that's possible now without getting caught. There's either a fixed camera or an HP that's going to get ya.

[F5 Dave]

Fark you make less sense than i do

Well I'm not admitting to it on a public forum, next thing some clown would be doing a calculation to see if Blumley (or whatever that chap's name was) could make it back from Auckland instead of Palmerston North in time to negate his alibi.

Actually I'm still not making any sense.

[Delerium]

You cant really get away with this sort of thing anymore. there will always be a camera or cop on the way. here is a question, with the speed cameras, how do they know who to send the ticket to. no number plate on the front.