Interesting video, used to travel over the gorge regularly. It's amazing how dilapidated the road has gotten in less than 10 years.
@ninaandbob Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the ride-through.
@sjm1408 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your ride. Would love to do that one day.
@getahanddown4 ай бұрын
This video makes me itchy to go exploring. Awesome!
@mickwhitehouse7537 Жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff
@MalcolmMcCrea8 ай бұрын
Good to see the old road again, my Great Grandfather helped build the original road and railway and my Grandfather helped to widen the road in later years. My Great Grandfather was also the last toll operator for the Ballance end of the gorge, he was also there before Woodville even existed.
@r-and-d-adventures8 ай бұрын
Wow. That's so interesting. Great information. Thanks for sharing.
@SharonCooper-p1w4 ай бұрын
I loved driving through the Manawatu Gorge
@craigpearce46674 ай бұрын
Great video. Thanks for showing this
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
No problem 👍
@PaulLea Жыл бұрын
Excellent mini doco, cheers for risking life & limb to film it all for the world to see.🧐
@r-and-d-adventures Жыл бұрын
My pleasure
@PthunderYT2 ай бұрын
Allways wondered what it looked like on the other side
@maxxamiss53864 ай бұрын
I miss the gorge learned how to drive in a hillman hunter going through there. It was a beautiful road to drive through. Much safer than the saddle
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
I agree with you there
@TeToa-ux5oc3 ай бұрын
As Did I Hillman Hunter.
@margaretbutler454523 күн бұрын
Walked it a month ago as weren't sure about bikes. Only tricky bits with bikes is western side gate and first slip 100m in after that it is plain sailing. If using ebikes maybe 2 person job.
@youtube7076 Жыл бұрын
well done , from canada with love!
@r-and-d-adventures Жыл бұрын
Thanks for that
@danielcobb8886Ай бұрын
Really enjoyed this. Hope to do a bike ride on this road.
@r-and-d-adventuresАй бұрын
Yes. Do it!
@bryanbadger6841 Жыл бұрын
As a retired Manawatu dairy farmer, I've been through there a million times. Well...maybe 999,999 times. Interesting that there appears to be no problems on the rail side of the gorge. Hmmm. Wonder if anyone thought about creating the above ground version of the Uk to France Chunnel. Costs would be to rebuild rolling stock to carry 6-10 vehicles at a time per wagon.Just 6km distance. Job done. Fraction of what it will cost to put the new road in. Aaaah but this, but that...butbut but. Thank you for sharing. Take care.
@r-and-d-adventures Жыл бұрын
Interesting theory. Too easy tho lol
@bryanbadger6841 Жыл бұрын
@@r-and-d-adventures not wrong there.
@tonymckeage1028 Жыл бұрын
Great Video, thanks for sharing
@r-and-d-adventures Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@decadenthedonist4 ай бұрын
I'm not usually a reckless, trespassing law breaker but I love this route now and so do plenty of others. Cycled it a once when it was open to cars and trucks and it was terrifying and genuinely dangerous. Now its far safer than the heavily trafficked alternative Pahiatua track. The slips have mostly stabilized now that they are not being removed from the road and the encounter probability to rockfall is almost negligible due to the low use during wet stormy weather. This type of closure smells like apathetic risk aversion and low priority for funding walking/cycling projects. The large holes in the fence next to the intimidating signs seem to be tolerated but what a shame this can't receive a small investment to officially open an important connection. Hope your video can encourage some action. Closures are often for quite valid reasons but I would invite the small number of commenters from the "Tsk! Tsk! brigade" to relax about this one. It's really not that risky. Perhaps consider that rules are for the obeisance of fools and the guidance of the wise.
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
Totally agree. Thanks for that.
@BrianOliver-c4b4 ай бұрын
Travelled that road from kune to masterton many times to see my Nan,was definitely a bit scary as a youngster back in the seventies especially after rain and slips
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
Same. I know exactly what you mean
@surfturfnz18794 ай бұрын
I remember back in the days when being told that an American company had wanted to build a mega super highway right through the Manawatu river itself and local iwi stopped that idea right in its tracks!
@daddybob60964 ай бұрын
Typical.
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
Wow. Hadn't heard that one. Would have been a good idea in hindsight.
@harismusic6087 Жыл бұрын
Typical Kiwi talk. I like that talking 😊😊😊 👍👍👍👍
@iancurtis11528 ай бұрын
I haven’t heard “ daggie” and “blimmin” for ages😁
@mikebarrett86814 ай бұрын
We used to visit my dads parents in danniverke every Xmas so got to go through the gorge a fair few times. Us kids were quite scared, and dad knowing this, when it was quiet eg 6 in the morning he would go quite fast, just to make it even more scary 😳🤣
@glendafield97974 ай бұрын
Well now i understand why we cant drive on this road anymore! Thanks, take care.😅
@michaelhenry-hurst27874 ай бұрын
i miss driving it just something about it was sooo chill even thought it was corner after corner bend after bend.... my only issue was people doing 40kph through it when you could do 80kph easy, if trucks could so can cars
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
Huh yes, you're so right
@brucesieverts123610 ай бұрын
good on you for doing this, the funny thing is that once the new road is finished the old road will become a cycle track.
@r-and-d-adventures10 ай бұрын
Haha quite possibly
@hobocyclist4 ай бұрын
nice vid! i want to ride this road
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
Go for it!
@rrssmooth6643 Жыл бұрын
neat how you see the road getting reclaimed by nature. Just goes to show the money pit, this road would have been to maintain. Done a good job with that video.
@mrc63014 ай бұрын
we used to go possum hunting through the gorge, about 8 of us all on motorbikes and with guns, min d you it was 55years ago ,lol.
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
That sounds like fun. Nice
@garyboxx18 күн бұрын
Very interesting, I think it's absolutely ridiculous that barriers are are place to stop anyone using the road when obviously it is navigable by pedestrians, cyclists and possibly motorcyclists if the barriers were removed. I would risk breaking a fingernail.
@jaceNZ757 ай бұрын
👍👍
@DanielBanks-kv5vi4 ай бұрын
Your a cool narrator meke video
@r-and-d-adventures4 ай бұрын
Thanks
@war11324 ай бұрын
Lets be real no helmets gonna save you from a falling boulder
@KiwiSentinel4 ай бұрын
but perfect against small debris.
@sjm42 Жыл бұрын
Did you spare a minute's thought for the imconvenience, expense and potential risk to the safety of other required if you had had an accident or injury requiring rescue while traversing this route?
@r-and-d-adventures Жыл бұрын
Ooops no. Knew of the potential risk but there were so many others walking and cycling on the road that day. Felt very safe having the weather in our favour too.
@insertthecoinz Жыл бұрын
The best adventures are the one that have no thought about anything, but to just enjoy it, and as it turned out everyone ok, right? right :) chur!
@r-and-d-adventures Жыл бұрын
@@insertthecoinz That is how we do things, and thanks
@montyspearo11 ай бұрын
I'd rather take my chances with falling rock than texting driver on Pahiatua track road.
@NZsarge14 ай бұрын
I still think a tunnel and a toll set up was the best solution, I have to say the old road is in worse shape than I thought it might be in regards cracks in the road due subsidence (the biggest issue) and the size of a couple of the slips.
@gaylewhauwhau39725 ай бұрын
Trying to fix the Manawatu Gorge was a logistical nightmare and a big waste of tax payer money.
@r-and-d-adventures5 ай бұрын
Oh yes. Glad those days are over.
@martinfellows9070 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for trying to enter the Darwin awards to show the current state of the landslides