great road for racing, DH and sliding
The TSB arena carpark. A exceptional good carpark with its smooth floor, open space and being well lit this is a good place for boarders trying to learn to slide, manual, board dance etc. We often play skate tag here to build up endurances
classic downhill good seal, good runout, fun corners.
This whole area is just begging to be scoped out and bombed!
Most of the surfaces are average but there are also newly surfaced smooth concrete. The western Hills are just out of Lower Hutt and there is so much on offer.
new subdivision. perfect seal, wide roads, no traffic, possibly the best road ive ever skated. speeds not too fast max out about 40kph, ideal for sliding and carving. check it out with google street view!
Nice small hill for carving and learning to slide. Out in the Hutt up Hill Rd. It is a circuit best done counter-clockwise with a quick walk to get you back to the top. Buttery smooth concrete with barely any cars. Starts off with an easy gradient-great for carving, then turns steeply left and then left again then finishes with a nice uphill runout. Then walk to the top and do it all again. Also Check out all the other Roads in the Western Hills.
Dope run starting at the miramar prison on maupuia hill, no traffic, ideal for sliding or bombing.
This is a nice little hairpin corner to drift right on oriental bay.
Start on oriental terrace and drift into a little unnamed one way st and stop by the stairs to get back up! Rinse, repeat...
It's neat cos you can see the road below and it's one way anyway so almost no chance of cars.
A sweet run, kenhilworth grove up the top short but a good carve street,
two wicked banked hairpins, pretty steep leading upto the hairpins though. after the hairpin a long straight for carving that has a short steeper part that runs into an uphill as a run off. Then a huge long street for dancing or pumping, whatever takes your fancy really. good place to muck around and not too many cars if you go at the right time. Pavements not bad either, not buttery smooth but not rough, its consistent
Really close to silverstream station aswell.
gentle smooth downhill with nice as seal. has a set of traffic lights when you switch from Glenmore to Bowen but they tend to be in your favor.
You have to foot break before you reach the traffic lights at the intersection of Bowen St and Lampton Key, Or if your lucky the lights will be green and you can just shoot on through into a nice runoff.
There are a bunch of gravely parts up the top of Glenmore so I hit it from lower down.
