Write an essay for KR site

[Big Dave]

Just an idea - Wet day - I'm writing - if you want something to do:

200-500 word essay - 'My Favourite Road' - with a google map or google map link. Pics too if poss.

And we'll publish the best of on the KR site too.

[Taz]

So it can't be about how you guys put a pic of a 2 stroke RG in the mag instead of Cros's GS1000R race bike then?

[Headbanger]

My Favourite Road-By Headbanger

My favourite road is any road where the police don't do u-turns in blind-spots and which has a pub located at the halfway point, A pub that does wedges with cheese and bacon.

The End.

[Big Dave]

Is it the one labelled XR69? I'd have to ask Rhys.

[AD345]

“My favourite road” the man said. Just put down a few words and see how you do. Where do you start something like that?

When you get down to it a road is a road is a road. Sealed, or not, corners, straights, up hills and down, oncoming traffic and both kinds of snakes – tar and copper. They all have them to one degree or another.
To be a favourite it then needs to evoke some emotional response. The exhilaration of a smooth fast series of sweepers certainly brings a smile to my face so that would make the 34 k from Tahuna to Ohinewai in the northern Waikato a contender for favourite.
Beautiful scenery at a cruising pace would make the western side of the Coromandel peninsula another shot at the title. Then there is the western side of Lake Taupo from Tokoroa to Turangi. I love that road in a car or a bike. Great surface, wide because of the logging trucks and, back in the day, snake free (little or no RT coverage).
State Highway 14 from Dargaville to Whangarei has no special scenery and doesn’t really go anywhere spectacular but you can’t ride it on a cruiser without feeling better with every passing kilometre. Better still there are a myriad of options directly off that road as well, be it up through Twin Bridges to Kaikohe or meandering through Waipoua Forest to Opononi to name just two.
We have hardly gotten started and I could go on for 10 more without going south of Taupo, let alone waxing rhapsodic about the offerings on our southern Isle.
But, with all that, I do have a favourite road.
It is the one that goes past my house.
The one that takes me everywhere else

I love it.

[Big Dave]

My Favourite Road-By Headbanger

My favourite road is any road where the police don't do u-turns in blind-spots and which has a pub located at the halfway point, A pub that does wedges with cheese and bacon.

The End.

Fascinating insights thanks. No mention of amplifier stacks or black motif tee shirt vendors?

[Gubb]

Fascinating insights thanks. No mention of amplifier stacks or black motif tee shirt vendors?

He usually goes home at the end of "The Road" anyway.

[Big Dave]

http://kiwiridermagazine.blogspot.co...rite-road.html

[AD345]

http://kiwiridermagazine.blogspot.co...rite-road.html

Whoohooo

World famous in Papakura!

Need new pics tho.

[Taz]

Is it the one labelled XR69? I'd have to ask Rhys.

Yep .

[Big Dave]

I'll ask Rhys!

[Crazy Steve]

Just an idea - Wet day - I'm writing - if you want something to do:

200-500 word essay - 'My Favourite Road' - with a google map or google map link. Pics too if poss.

And we'll publish the best of on the KR site too.

Is there a prize ? ?

200-500 is alot of freckin words if the most commonly used word you use is Fck !

Crazy Steve.

[Big Dave]

Is there a prize ? ?

I will love you long time and will buy beer next time Suzuki are paying.

[trustme]

So many roads so little time. I could dash up a little something on the Manawahe Rd, Fields Track ,Kaipara Hills Rd or are they a little too eclectic

[Headbanger]

Righto, I don't have a favorite road, I have a favorite loop for short blasts. It packs a lot of punch into a half hour ride.

Starting in the stunning and historical metropolis of Wanganui, traveling alongside the crystalline waters of the Wanganui river, past the impressive and revered Aramaho Tavern, Turning left at Brunwick Rd and passing the magnificent fertilizer store and former demolition "storage facility", from there it goes downhill rather quickly, the road is a succession of undulating sharp blind corners, the surface is a minefield, Leading onto a one way bridge and a series of very sharp,very steep corners.

There are no road markings, The road is covered in shit, tractors and sheep are common, as is cars on the wrong side of the road, and the locals treat it as their driveway. In other words perfect conditions for riding a bike.

Soon it opens up and you climb out of the valley towards a plateau, Soon you're surrounded by gentle farmland and you can feed the bitch some fat, Until getting the shit scared out of you by a tractor, farm dog or a wicked tight corner apearing out of nowhere. Sometimes a combination of all three for some quality shits and giggles.

Then a good short sharp decent into a stunning valley, a hard left and a few k's on another tight, twisty, badly maintained road, If you don't get an arse clenth or two through here you doing it all wrong.

Soon enough you hit the main road, hang a hard left and you're at the Kai iwi tavern. Great service,plenty of food, and the beer is cold. There is pretty much always at least a couple bikes parked outside.

From here you can stay on the main road for a casual ride back into Wanganui or hang a hard right, Leading through some trees and up the side of a hill, the road is in great condition, the corners are perfect. This again opens up onto flat farm land and as you get closer to the coast the sea opens up before you, But don't look at it, that's where the corners kick in, and if your looking out to sea you will crash. There is also a cliff.

Bypassing the beach turn off, and heading back towards town, You can pick anyone of 4 of 5 different approaches to take.

All in all its a fuckin stunning route, offering up a wide variation of roads and scenery, and can be done after work or before lunch. Funny enough its rare that I see any other bikes out and about those ways.