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This in my humble opinion this is one of the best around the north shore area and sort of close to Mania as well.
Corners are not as tight as the hairpins down Galstone Gorge but you don't get stuck behind annoyingly slow drivers that think the 5km/h recommended speed on the hairpins applies to the whole road.
Alot more fun than taking the F3.

gregord wrote:Lots of speed restrictions and very heavily policed because its a favourite with two wheeled weekend warriors.

I don't think the two wheeled ones are the only ones to blame for the heavie police presence. They may get the blame in the media.....cause they have to pick on someone.
but I have to agree its one of the better peices of road around.......especially the bit after Broocklyn leading up to the pie in the Sky......yipeeeee.

but do watch yourself.......big brother is watching.

gregord wrote:Lots of speed restrictions and very heavily policed because its a favourite with two wheeled weekend warriors.

Not that many speed restrictions most of it is 80 just going down to 60 as you pass through the populated area's and 80 is more than enough for me going through some of those corners
then again maybe I don't know the limits of the car yet but I've only had it a few weeks now, got a NB8A manual, big upgrade from the old 1988 automatic 3 speed ford laser I used to drive

im not shy in saying that i think the cars limits are above my own!

and yes, that is a SERIOUS step up from a laser!

where do the people usually hang out on the OPH? i wouldnt imagine they would hang around the corners? maybe on some of the longer straights????

There's still patches of blue there from when it ate my car

it ate your car???

chewed it up and spat it out. But rodent stood up galantly to the old pac monster.

wait blue NA was it the same one sitting at Mania a few weeks ago??

if it looked like it has been rolled....then yes...unless rodent drove a DIFFERENT blue NA into a cliff wall

SM wrote:wait blue NA was it the same one sitting at Mania a few weeks ago??

Welcome to the show SM!

There was a massive thread about it when it happened, have a look.

Boags

Boags'MX5 wrote:There was a massive thread about it when it happened, have a look.

FYI - http://www.aus-cartalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=22098

After a bit more experience I take back what I said before, the oph can be done at the speed limit, i got a proper co driver that knows the road riding shotgun and telling me how to take each corner and I was amazed at the results i knew it had better handling than the other cars i have dríven but I didn't think it would make that much of a difference the car just seemed to take it all in, no speeding of course lots of fun

SM wrote:After a bit more experience I take back what I said before, the oph can be done at the speed limit, i got a proper co driver that knows the road riding shotgun and telling me how to take each corner and I was amazed at the results i knew it had better handling than the other cars i have dríven but I didn't think it would make that much of a difference the car just seemed to take it all in, no speeding of course lots of fun

Now let's see you wipe that smile off your face!

Your bragging about doing the OPH at the current speed limit!! bwhahaha

I can almost walk faster than the new speed limit and have been passed by cyclists going downhill. It used to be fun when it had a 100/80kmh speed limit, not as much fun at 70kmh and a total waste of time at the current 60kmh. I was up there today and reminising about cruising through there in the olden days around 95 to 98kmh and not be pulled over for speeding.

I'm with STM though, the run from the bridge up to PITS is still one of my favourites and the speed limit is still 80kmh on that stretch so you can still have a little bit of fun without loosing your licence. Though I still need to keep a close eye on the speedo. It's very easy to get over the magic 109kmh on the short straights.