Featured Over The Hill For Coffee

Mrs Dartplayer likes a local cafe with lamingtons, you just need to ride over the state forest to get there

 

I was distracted, so late pic of the lamingtons

 

Temp post (2/2/22) of the ride route
https://share.icloud.com/photos/02bT51m6NbZY1FX0zxtHAnzVw

 

Wow, a ride from coast to coast with a state forest in between. That sounds glorious, @Dartplayer!

 

Thanks Sandi, yes and spectacular views, just not much passing room if you get stuck behind traffic Second trip this week and they had cream this time, so was supposed to get the perfect lamingtons shot

 

We call them 'buttocks'' over here.

 

some pix on the way over

 

through the forest

 

Matarangi/Kuaotunu

 

Blue skies and dry roads...

 

Mercury Bay

 

Summer Hols @Octoberon, not too far in your future

 

I like your optimism but the calendar says there's a way to go.

 

Great one @Dartplayer ... the ride clip thingy makes it look like the hills have some good twisting in them! It’s becoming one of the places I need to visit on a bike before I die... which gives me an idea for a thread!

 

Awesome ride

 

Dartplayer.
Well thanks for mailing all those pictures of hot sunny climes and fantastic scenery. I am sitting here looking out my back door its cold damp and cloudy. O'h how i wish you and i could change places for months. But great ride out.
Joe

 

Yes @DCS900, many 25/35kmph signs, which are the lowest posted. Many come around on themselves to achieve alleviation or decent.
You would enjoy the North Island coastal rides and the South Island’s mountains and open plains
Visitors and locals usually take a week or more just for the S.I