Orakei Road
Submitted by dhill on Wed, 27/05/2009 - 3:45pm.
Start where Green Lane East meets Ascot ave. head down Ascot ave until it becomes Orakei road, follow Orakei road down into Mission Bay and at the VERY bottom turn left down Ngapipi road. The second half of Ascot ave is a slight up hill you will just have to skate up, no biggie. So you have aprox 4.5km of down hill on smooth (for nz) roads, crusie low gradent donhill. Would love to do it at night. The last road, Ngapipi road scares me, i have never done it but it looks fast, (i could be wrong). Going down Orakei road the are one of two points where if you are not going fast enough you dont have enough speed to get up a couple of hills... 2.5 min walks max... would love some feed back from people riding this hill


Ngapipi??
I'm living on Ngaiwi Street and working in the viaduct for a while.
Hit Ngapipi straight out the door every morning.
Super smooth. Pretty fast. Plenty of runoff.