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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: JonArgraig on 08 September 2008, 20:18:38
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If you ever get the chance - Llandudno - Great Orme -
Try it at night, as it will be quite, or on a week day, and yes it's a one way road for the most
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The view's are amazing and the road a delight :)
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Does look like a good drive. Bit far for me though! ;D
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The best driving road in the world is the one that goes from work to home. I never fail to feel elated once I'm on it. :)
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Try the coast road from Sorrento to Salerno - it's like a fairground ride.
Or rather, don't. It would be a great test of driving skill if it wasn't for the other drivers. I never got above 3rd gear for 2 weeks.
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Two roads spring to mind for me
Stelvio Pass - This should be on any serious drivers list of roads to drive 'energeticaly' before you die (think I scared the crap out of Laidback66 on here a few times !)
More localay
B4067 from Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray, very twisty and hilly in places and if you know it well then its a GREAT road (listed as a top one by bikers to!)
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Have great memories of driving the Great Orme competitely in a Cooper S (years ago) on special stage rallies.
One time a fellow competitor "crashed" into the retaining wall without going over and limped to the end of the stage in his identical car. My radiator sprang a leak and we swapped them over in double quick time.
Now I settle for more or less any road in Andalucia. It is said that if Andalucia was a country then it would be the second most mountaineous in Europe! Out of the skiing season the road from Granada to and past the ski resort to something like 2,750 metres takes some beating. There are always Imprezas etc being put through their paces!.
varche
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Just spent the weekend in Scotland and am speechless. I want to move there. :D
The beer's rubbish but the roads more than make up for that. :y
Kevin
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Like it the background music and miggy roarr :y
By the way whats the name of this song..Hear on the radio a few times ?
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Jon, do you still have to pay to drive that road?
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the road from Newtown to Bala via Lake Vwrnwy
awesome.
also, the back road pass thru ffestiniog ....
the road from Stow to Burford...
the north side of Ynys Mon , round by Amlwch and so on has some great bits as well....
back road from Islip to Bicester ...
some of the roads up in NE Lincs are a bit special as well.. Louth has some nice routes around it...
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My favourite is the non toll road from south of the millau bridge to beziers, a dual carriageway but stunning bends and climbs. And if I'm on it it means I'm not at work.
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the road from Newtown to Bala via Lake Vwrnwyawesome.
Done it via Welshpool a few times - lovely
also, the back road pass thru ffestiniog ....
the road from Stow to Burford...
Haven't done that one
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My favourite is the non toll road from south of the millau bridge to beziers, a dual carriageway but stunning bends and climbs. And if I'm on it it means I'm not at work.
Ahh .. the A75, N9, D9 ... that was a fun road I agree... but some of the less well known roads like the D110 Peyreleau - Millau were more fun ... but not with a truck or a pikey wagon !!!!!
:D :D :D :D :D
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also, the back road pass thru ffestiniog
Yes, VERY good all be it a little tight in places.
the road from Stow to Burford...
Interesting one, pretty fast with a good climb to. Drive this one every year when we go to Fairford
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A361 between Junction 27 M5 and Barnstable
Also the road from Monmouth down to the Coldra at newport - although watch out for the Talivan :D
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West of Worcester A44 to Aberystwyth is nice as is A443 and A4103
Cotswolds try A435 from Crickley Hill to Cirencester
Bath to Stratford on Avon via A46, the section out of Bath over the Cotswolds is lovely, after Cheltenham nice run down to Winchcombe and through to Broadway, good biking road!
A30 Devon & Cornwall is scenic but hard work towing.
A39 can produce a good drive.
A3083 B3293 and joining lanes in the Lizard has very good scenery, some fast straights, and some good corners. The lanes and small roads near the sea and the rivers are scenic but slow
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A361 between Junction 27 M5 and Barnstable
Also the road from Monmouth down to the Coldra at newport - although watch out for the Talivan :D
Not bad but hilly, quite nice
Fast A40 & A449 but the Ross Monmouth section is prettier
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Col-du-Turini, just outside monte carlo :y :y
26 miles of twisty winding road that takes you up 5000ft above sea level....
In a RHD car it gives great views on the way up as you are right by the side of the road/cliff face....
Sister in law was as sick as a dog when we went up there this year in the Miggy, i wasn't blatting it either ;D ;D ;D
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snake pass , minus snow or pikey wagons...
A4074 oxford to Henley and thru to Maidenhead/pinkney's green
has some cool bits ... although traffic can be an arse
A470 From Llandudno Junction down past llanrwst to betws...
4086/498 capel curig to tremadoc
the A5 itself from Bethesda to Llangollen used to be a fave of mine...
for a while in the early 90's i commuted from Bangor to high Wycombe....
got to know it VERY well....
also the 497 from Porthmadog to Nefyn... ... and down the coast from Nefyn the B4417 and some of that area is pure enjoyment... although less so in summer when it's tourist season...
the A399 South Molton to Ilfracombe is good....
as is the A39 north devon coast road from Barnstaple heading west to Bude,
and the A39 again from Blackmoor gate to Porlock....
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theres a brilliant little road near were i live the bulphan roads brilliant on a bike or in a car
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One day will take annother trip up this way.
This time in the Elite rather a Transit Pickup.
Driving directions to A68
92.4 mi – about 2 hours 12 mins
A696
1. Head northwest on A696
Go through 3 roundabouts 29.1 mi
2. Slight left at A68
Go through 2 roundabouts
Entering Scotland
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&saddr=A696&daddr=55.23842,-2.202759+to:A68&hl=en&geocode=FVxjRwMdIlzm_w%3B%3BFb0lVQMd_2fR_w&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=9&via=1&sll=55.275986,-1.930847&sspn=1.192187,2.460938&ie=UTF8&ll=55.42122,-2.342834&spn=1.187823,2.460938&z=9
Doesnt look much on the map, but a nice combination of roads and bends :y
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A361 between Junction 27 M5 and Barnstable
Problem with that one is you need to be at very illegal speeds before it gets fun and last time I went that way there were a few GATSOs. Still fun outdragging the WPWs up the hills though. [smiley=evil.gif]
The roads this weekend were perfect for the Westfield. Perhaps a little tight for an Omega but flowing from one corner to the next, a good mixture of sweeping bends where you can pile on the lateral "G", and tight hairpins that you can exit in 2nd with the tail hanging out. All without exceeding the speed limit. Much. :-X
Very little traffic, and what traffic you did meet were courteous enough to see you were "on a flyer" and pull over. Can't see that ever happening down south.
Entwood is right as well. Practically any French "D" road is just as good.
Kevin
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WPW :-/
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If you ever get the chance - Llandudno - Great Orme -
Try it at night, as it will be quite, or on a week day, and yes it's a one way road for the most
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The view's are amazing and the road a delight :)
Just watched the video again Jon, would make an ideal road for the anual OOF Hillclimb trial's. :y :y :y
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been down the the Mulsanne down at Le Mans flat out at ......... 90 kmh ;D ;D ;D ;D bloody speed limiters