Your nemesis corner?

[Trudes]

Rimutaka Hill road. Last passing lane on the Southside going up to the top. Right hand corner up a kink and rise.

Spun the car out on it and had my first and only bin on a bike on it too.

It's a great corner and it feels cool to do BUT I'm useless at it!

If that's the corner I think you mean I used to hate that corner too, until I learned to love it! Realised if I lean right into it, look right through the corner and apply the gas the bike goes round it quite happily and it really is an awesome corner, my favourite now (until I arse off that is!)

My least fav (that I can think of) is up the Takas too, Featherston side heading up, second to last passing lane right-hander just as the passing lane ends, the camber is all wrong and then the passing lane ends and you feel like you're going to end up in the cliff face or the side of the car you're passing. Hate that corner!!! But I will beat it one day... maybe this summer!

[Number One]

If that's the corner I think you mean I used to hate that corner too, until I learned to love it! Realised if I lean right into it, look right through the corner and apply the gas the bike goes round it quite happily and it really is an awesome corner, my favourite now (until I arse off that is!)

My least fav (that I can think of) is up the Takas too, Featherston side heading up, second to last passing lane right-hander just as the passing lane ends, the camber is all wrong and then the passing lane ends and you feel like you're going to end up in the cliff face or the side of the car you're passing. Hate that corner!!! But I will beat it one day... maybe this summer!

Maybe you can school me on the one I don't like and I can just be supportive of you for the one you don't like

[Dodger]

Rimutaka Hill road. Last passing lane on the Southside going up to the top. Right hand corner up a kink and rise.

Add me to that one, I hate that corner. I've had to many near misses on it

I'm also not to happy with the 25kph bend on Greys road (heading east), it's a nice 80kph road, with some good corners and then that 25km bend sneaks up on you.

I think my biggest problem is that the Bike is used for commuting 90% of the time and I don't get the time to go out for a "play" ride, as such my cornering is crap (there's not that many corners between Stokes Valley and Wellington)

[Pwalo]

It's not really a nemesis corner, but I just can't get the corner leading on to SH2 from the Gorge right.

I'm always just getting on the gas too soon looking to get past the cars before merging with SH2.

Still I get plenty of practice.

[Trudes]

Maybe you can school me on the one I don't like and I can just be supportive of you for the one you don't like

ha me school you, Yeah right!!

[Coyote]

A corner on Wallaceville Hill Road in Upper Hutt. A month after smashing the RG into the bank after cockily passing a 600, the corrugations that made me loose grip got sealed over.

[MSTRS:Me]

It's not really a nemesis corner, but I just can't get the corner leading on to SH2 from the Gorge right.

I'm always just getting on the gas too soon looking to get past the cars before merging with SH2.

Still I get plenty of practice.

Huh? SH2 intersects in the middle of Woodville....
Do you mean the left/right combo after the yellows finish, just before the Ballance bridge?

[Number One]

A corner on Wallaceville Hill Road in Upper Hutt. A month after smashing the RG into the bank after cockily passing a 600, the corrugations that made me loose grip got sealed over.

I'm sorry you passed a 600 going up there? Was he pushing it?

[Deano]

Rimutaka Hill road. Last passing lane on the Southside going up to the top. Right hand corner up a kink and rise.

Spun the car out on it and had my first and only bin on a bike on it too.

It's a great corner and it feels cool to do BUT I'm useless at it!

Ditto - I think I've only ever got it right once.

Actually - I was thinking of the right hander on the last passing lane on the Hutt side.

[skelstar]

I'm sorry you passed a 600 going up there? Was he pushing it?

I think he means a Fiat Bambina... weren't the Abarth ones 600cc?

[HenryDorsetCase]

turn one at ruapuna (the kink) i need to develop the sack to take it flat on the 400 but I seem to roll off just that little bit every time. stupid brain.

oh, and "pothole" also at ruapuna: same thing. I know I should be able to go a LOT quicker than I go there.

[Kinje]

If that's the corner I think you mean I used to hate that corner too, until I learned to love it! Realised if I lean right into it, look right through the corner and apply the gas the bike goes round it quite happily and it really is an awesome corner, my favourite now (until I arse off that is!)

My least fav (that I can think of) is up the Takas too, Featherston side heading up, second to last passing lane right-hander just as the passing lane ends, the camber is all wrong and then the passing lane ends and you feel like you're going to end up in the cliff face or the side of the car you're passing. Hate that corner!!! But I will beat it one day... maybe this summer!

Yep, second last passing lane going up Featherston side - It's the one where I came off. At the end of the left hand lane there seems to be a slight hump making the camber all screwwy
I find it better if you're in the right hand (passing) lane.

[Coyote]

I'm sorry you passed a 600 going up there? Was he pushing it?

No, but it sounds better when I don't say that

The RG can be a hell of a lot quicker than bigger bikes on corners. It'll blitz anything on Blue Mountains hill road.

[Number One]

No, but it sounds better when I don't say that

The RG can be a hell of a lot quicker than bigger bikes on corners. It'll blitz anything on Blue Mountains hill road.

Now this is blunt....but that's me.

If you are passing on that road you are a cock...racing nanas in their Echos doesn't count! If you tried to pass me up there I would likely push you off.

[Coyote]

Now this is blunt....but that's me.

If you are passing on that road you are a cock...racing nanas in their Echos doesn't count! If you tried to pass me up there I would likely push you off.

Yes I was a cock. I've wisened up since.

Up to everyone else whether I'm still considered a cock or not. I can be accused of being a nana now though. I'm not afraid of going fast, I'm afraid of hurting the bike and being off the road (like I am now...).

It was a bad day for RG's. The 2 others I was riding fell off on loose gravel. Koba on his old GSX was the only one that stayed on 2 wheels