One way to ruin a good ride...

[JimO]

..how did those old boys with square tyres and plunger back ends ever get where they were going....

for a start they didnt go everywhere at 500 miles a hr

[fuknKIWI]

....add rain, mist, wind, lake-flies, cages, maui campers, sunstrike, rego increases, nasty policemen.....oh the woe's ....might sell all my bikes for scrap and get the bus....then we could get a site called KiwiBusser going and still solve the problems of the world.....how did those old boys with square tyres and plunger back ends ever get where they were going....

Slowly

[tri boy]

We luv road works we dooo's
All summer is the season. Much easier to do than in winter.
If stone chips and cement splashes are a pain, then, umm, gee, guess your fooked.

[Tink]

Not Waiuku Rd, perchance? Gits! Well, it's one way of preventing the roads melting...

Yup that one, I go through the cuttings... the road was pretty tatty through there, I guess it had to be done at some point.

[rapid van cleef]

what really fucks me off about road works in this country is that there is no prior warning before a major intersection there there will be road works ahead on highway 'x'. of course there are signs telling you roadworks ahead, but often you get very little more than a few hundred metres. so there is no option at any point to take an alternative route in my experience. surely that is not difficult to do after all ,the trucks have to go past those intersections to get to the dam road works to start with.......................fuckin amateurs.

[fliplid]

Yup that one, I go through the cuttings... the road was pretty tatty through there, I guess it had to be done at some point.

Had the "pleasure" of finding out that they'd ripped up the road the other day on the long way back from work to Puke. Out of Glenbrook Station Rd- road metal and lime...

[R-Soul]

The road between Thames (well the intersection just past Thames) and Tairua is also dodgy as for the first 4 km's. A little (very) hairy on a sportsbike. Rather go the looong way around via Coromandel, Matarangi to Tairua

[Cayman911]

one good way to ruin riding as a whole is registering your motorcycle. @#&VDJHDASF

[firefighter]

Without the roadworks you'd be complaining about the lack of roadworks.

[robo555]

Without the roadworks you'd be complaining about the lack of roadworks.

Was going to say exactly this.

What we really need are roads that last forever. Failing that, all roadworks should be completed within 3 days, at night, in silence.

[Dave Lobster]

Who plans this shit!!!

Funny . PLANNING?? IN NZ?? Are you mad??

[Corse1]

one good way to ruin riding as a whole is registering your motorcycle. @#&VDJHDASF

What about getting fined for no rego..thats another way to ruin a good ride.

[hardhats]

Without the roadworks you'd be complaining about the lack of roadworks.

true, however it wouldn't be so bad if they just did one section of road at a time, finished it, and then moved on to the next. At least then most of the road would still be in good condition.
The way they do it at the moment almost seems to be a deliberate attempt to cause the most disruption for the longest period of time...

[hardhats]

one good way to ruin riding as a whole is registering your motorcycle. @#&VDJHDASF

What about getting fined for no rego..thats another way to ruin a good ride.

Fines are cheaper... Plus having no rego is good motivation to ride "carefully" so you're less like to be pulled over and checked.

[Toaster]

Fines are cheaper... Plus having no rego is good motivation to ride "carefully" so you're less like to be pulled over and checked.

I guess so if you are happy with NO insurance.


Plently of roadworks on SH16, slippery and lots of wet tarseal in the heat to stick the stonechips nicely to the underbody. Just hauled a whole lot out of my fairings. If I keep doing it I should be able to re-gravel my driveway for free by 2012.