Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd, Advancetown , Qld.
Update 2011. Wrote this long ago, road has had some resurfacing in couple of spots and new road markers and remains excellent road surface. Known to attract the fast and the furious still and occasional unmarked patrol but mostly quiet these days.
(AKA - Hinze Raceway)
To follow on from my last road I will stay in the same area and add another well known road.
The Nerang-Murwillumbah rd, I've often heard it incorrectly called the Advancetown or Numinbah Rd or Hinze Dam raceway/Advancetown Raceway - for reasons that will reveal themselves to you.
If you have just gone up Springbrook Mt following my Great Bike Roads No.1 then I described a turnoff to the right at the top of the main climb just after the green rural fire service water tank.
Turn right here for Pine Creek Rd, what was known as the 'Goat track' a name no longer suiting as its all sealed and quite a nice ride, rather steep and with a few nice corners. This will take you quickly down to the valley floor between Springbrook and Beechmont ranges. Turn right again at the bottom of Pine creek rd. From here runs a very popular road that goes through to Nerang and indeed you can choose to arrive on it from the other end by taking the Nerang exit from the motorway and following signs to Advancetown-Numinbah valley.
Update 2011. Wrote this long ago, road has had some resurfacing in couple of spots and new road markers and remains excellent road surface. Known to attract the fast and the furious still and occasional unmarked patrol but mostly quiet these days.
(AKA - Hinze Raceway)
To follow on from my last road I will stay in the same area and add another well known road.
The Nerang-Murwillumbah rd, I've often heard it incorrectly called the Advancetown or Numinbah Rd or Hinze Dam raceway/Advancetown Raceway - for reasons that will reveal themselves to you.
If you have just gone up Springbrook Mt following my Great Bike Roads No.1 then I described a turnoff to the right at the top of the main climb just after the green rural fire service water tank.
Turn right here for Pine Creek Rd, what was known as the 'Goat track' a name no longer suiting as its all sealed and quite a nice ride, rather steep and with a few nice corners. This will take you quickly down to the valley floor between Springbrook and Beechmont ranges. Turn right again at the bottom of Pine creek rd. From here runs a very popular road that goes through to Nerang and indeed you can choose to arrive on it from the other end by taking the Nerang exit from the motorway and following signs to Advancetown-Numinbah valley.
This road is a bit too popular at times and like Mt G on a fine Sunday attracts 100's of bikes. Not as notorious nor policed as savagely you still better take a look over it before turning around to ride it over at more enjoyable pace.
EDIT: recently there has been a series of articles in the trashy tabloid Gold Coast Bulletin about hoons and bikers racing on this road and Beechmont.
While this road does attract alot of vehicles (think like Mt Glorious) the articles are sensationalism and driven by a well known Gold Coast industry identity and Q-ride provider from Nerang who likes playing politics. The result was a series of police blitz's on this road (early 2007) and on into numinbah valley as well. So take it easy there until it blows over or simply avoid this road - the rest of the southern hinterland remains mostly free of idiots and free of police.
It is a superbly surveyed road of fast open sweeping corners that winds its way along the valley floor next to the Hinze Dam - and it joins Springbrook and Beechmont mountains! It attracts alot of sports cars as well as all styles of bikes and is perhaps a bit like Northbrook Parkway lower section of Mt G with open sweeping bends - but its really alot better then that and unique in its own right.
EDIT: recently there has been a series of articles in the trashy tabloid Gold Coast Bulletin about hoons and bikers racing on this road and Beechmont.
While this road does attract alot of vehicles (think like Mt Glorious) the articles are sensationalism and driven by a well known Gold Coast industry identity and Q-ride provider from Nerang who likes playing politics. The result was a series of police blitz's on this road (early 2007) and on into numinbah valley as well. So take it easy there until it blows over or simply avoid this road - the rest of the southern hinterland remains mostly free of idiots and free of police.
It is a superbly surveyed road of fast open sweeping corners that winds its way along the valley floor next to the Hinze Dam - and it joins Springbrook and Beechmont mountains! It attracts alot of sports cars as well as all styles of bikes and is perhaps a bit like Northbrook Parkway lower section of Mt G with open sweeping bends - but its really alot better then that and unique in its own right.
Curiously hard to photo - you have to some and see for yourself!
there has been a lot of work along this road over the last year or two but not much work on the road. the hinze dam upgrade has added an intersection, i think its a road to a boat ramp that is usually closed as it has a gate. the road at this point has new tar but the rest of it has deteriorated.
ReplyDeleteits a great road overall but there is a pot hole very hard to avoid on the last 60k left heading north which has been there for well over a year.
the pot hole has been repaired
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