Old Pac

[yogi000]

hey everyone,

i'm heading up to the central coast tommorow and i wouldnt mind heading up the old pacific.

i've seen a few threads about heading up the old pac, but where do i get on and off......?

any help would be appreciated.

cheers

george

[trism]

jsut be careful, its ver dangerious.

lots of blind corners, that you may underestiamte.

lots of people i know have come a cropper, and spun into the railings, leaving a nice ding to fix up.. even at speeds like, 60km/h its hard...

[GMan]

whereis.com.au it...

yea llike trism said there are some blind corners. if you are not too familiar with it then go during the day so that its safer

[yogi000]

thanks for the heads up

not going for a fang.....just gonna head up around 2ish and i wanted to see what all the hype was.

--edit--

just had a look at whereis....its looks very tight through mooney mooney

[GoldZilla]

Nice stretch of road. The bunch of us that cruise up for the weekly Coastie cruise find the best place to start the Old Pac is from where the truckstop is in Berowra. Before that it's pretty much a mostly straight stretch of road...

[smasha]

And watch for random semi-trailers in the middle of the night... when you least expect them, taking up half your lane around a blind corner..

[Large]

thanks for the heads up

not going for a fang.....just gonna head up around 2ish and i wanted to see what all the hype was.

--edit--

just had a look at whereis....its looks very tight through mooney mooney

Watch for cops. Lots of them up there catching the guys on bikes.

Watch for bikes, not all of them doing 60.

Road is still closed at Calga so you miss the best bit up to Somersby and have to go back on the F3

[Duncan]

You head north from Hornsby and get onto the old road at berowra. just be careful all the signs along the way take you back to the freeway

Its a great drive, nothing dangerous about it at the speed limit.

[Primordial]

...apart from the occasional nutcase on a bike on full tilt cutting a corner a bit much and taking up half your lane... and the occasional dropbear!

[frozenwaffles]

yeah watch those dropbears....nasty critters they are!

[burnsie]

the old is awesome im always up and down it. juz watch for the bikes and the cops. if u have time stop in at pie in the sky. they have some awesome pies

[mesmerized]

awesome stretch of road

when the fcuk are the govt going to fix it?? isn't it the only main alternate route up to gosford? what happens when there's a pile up on the F3?

Edited January 11, 2008 by into oblivion

[evil_weevil]

yeah its the F3 or the old pac

It does get very busy on weekends so you'll have no probs with blind corners or anything as stage 2 3 and 4 are all 60kms anyway.

stage 1 from berowra to the hawksbury river is 80kms.

Cops patrol it every weekend.

[Liz]

lol

venturing out hey george

[Tazz]

jsut be careful, its heaps of fun and you'll become addicted to the road in no time..

at speeds like 120+ it starts becoming fun...

fixed for you

[scathing]

even at speeds like, 60km/h its hard...

Quoted for posterity.

Anyway, if you're going up on a Sunday just do at around the speed limit, and expect to not get a flowing drive. The road is always full of tourists on the weekend, and so its heavily patrolled. You'll also find a lot of cyclists during the day, so you'll go around some of those blind corners and find some spastics in spandex doing 20km/hr.

[R338OY]

Love the Old Pac.

Was the first time i made love with my Skyline.

What a hot bitch

[lingeringsoul]

i remember one particular blind corner after a bridge that got me a little freaked out at night since I couldn't see shit and head lights were crap.....otherwise, its pretty flowy....left, right, left, right mmmmmmmmm.

[N1GTR]

Oldpac....scary? Are we all talking about the same piece of road?

[evil_weevil]

Yeah I wouldnt say scary, Id say weekends are just too busy.

As Scathing said, its the push bike riders that you mainly need to watch for.

Best to go mid week for a nice drive with less traffic