Best driving roads in the region?

Best driving roads in the region?

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Robert060379

15,754 posts

183 months

Friday 11th December 2009
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Touring Remo said:
Rufus said:
Magog said:
Rufus said:
Touring Remo said:
Ashby St Mary. Yourself?
In the fields around Ditchingham.
The Ditchingham to Loddon road is quite fun to drive in its own way, but I'm sure you know this already.
Can be good when people aren't driving straight down the middle of it coming at you! I've had three windscreens in a month on that road.
Is that the stubbs green road? If so it's great in a car but horrific on a bike, its far too bumpy and you can't get any kind of pace up because it will just spit you into a hedge....
TDM Territory. smile

henrycrun

2,449 posts

240 months

Friday 11th December 2009
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"Big problem is frequency of those events that keep people glued to a TV but I'm happy to wait"
Not long now to Christmas Day

Robert060379

15,754 posts

183 months

Friday 11th December 2009
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Simpo Two said:
markCSC said:
and sometimes like this

Now to get average speed cameras, according to lunchtime news today.

Yet again Darwin is foiled...
Forward facing ones? Oh well, I'll just take my bike that way from now on. wink

oj121

1,548 posts

172 months

Monday 14th December 2009
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Try the B1050 from Chatteris to either Fenton or Old Hurst.....You can even take it and head down to biggleswade....that road is proper fun in the dry. Scarey when wet.

Robert060379

15,754 posts

183 months

Monday 14th December 2009
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oj121 said:
Try the B1050 from Chatteris to either Fenton or Old Hurst.....You can even take it and head down to biggleswade....that road is proper fun in the dry. Scarey when wet.
The B1098 stops at Chatteris I'll have to add it to my next circuit. smile

oj121

1,548 posts

172 months

Tuesday 15th December 2009
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Lots of sharp s bends and flowing flicks. Just head down to 141 from the roundabout with the BP garage on and you come to a small roundabout where you can go right down the really long straight road. Turn left into chatteris and take the next right turning. You go through the town a little bit but once you leave it behind.....YES! Its the closest road ove found to the ones im use to in the Welsh valleys.

Flanders.

6,369 posts

208 months

Tuesday 15th December 2009
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B660 from Kimbolton to Bedford is good fun.

Rufus

1,518 posts

207 months

Tuesday 15th December 2009
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Flanders. said:
B660 from Kimbolton to Bedford is good fun.
If this is the Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire then I agree - all the roads around the kart track are excellent fun.

Robert060379

15,754 posts

183 months

Tuesday 15th December 2009
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Rufus said:
Flanders. said:
B660 from Kimbolton to Bedford is good fun.
If this is the Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire then I agree - all the roads around the kart track are excellent fun.
I used to go out with a girl calle Kim from Bolton. Memories. cloud9sperm

oj121

1,548 posts

172 months

Tuesday 15th December 2009
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Tut tut Robert....that was poor....

Ill try out that kimbolton road when the weather improves. Too much mud around at the moment. Even dry mud on a nice day like today can be rather skittish. Plus my p-zeros dont seem to like anything other than perfect surfaces.

Robert060379

15,754 posts

183 months

Thursday 17th December 2009
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That's why Pirelli are standard fit on Fiat. Gave Kim a call the other day for nostalgia sake, she married the next guy who came along, has two kids and cheats on her husbands at every opportunity possible because he's a tw@.

Talk about lucky escape.

Anyway, whenever I work in Peterborough I use a back road from the A16 pass the Thorny Golf club (look out for Audi's, 4x4s and Audi 4x4s they don't look when they pull out and if you hit them it's always your fault) through some weird named villages you get in the far south of Lincolnshire and ends at Wisbeach. Then another back road from Wisbeach to the A17. Avoiding the A47 completely and has bends that are very interesting. Some steep drops and a single lane bridge that whatever direction you are coming from you don't have right of way. Oh and there are a couple of tools using this road, one in a black BMW X5 (Mr Average sits at 45 in the 60 zones and then accelorates when you try to overtake and sits on your back bumber when you do get passed) and a silver Porsche 911 Gt3 (who loves to lose it overtaking on the outside of a bend and then tries blame you for following the speed limit, this guy also has no insurance, daddys car).

oj121

1,548 posts

172 months

Thursday 17th December 2009
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Nah my zero nero's are on my Fez St. Great in dry, ok in wet, dangerous inbetween. Will be ok when i change them. Kim sounds real nice. Bet your gutted you missed that boat.

baptistsan

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1,839 posts

210 months

Thursday 17th December 2009
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Thanks for the suggestions chaps. Going to give some of these a go over the holiday smile

oj121

1,548 posts

172 months

Sunday 10th January 2010
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This deserves a bump to keep a smile on our faces as we look forward to the summer fast approaching......well the snow is melting atleast. Maybe even worth a sticky?

M001

1,380 posts

228 months

Monday 11th January 2010
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The B1127 just of the A12 past Wrentham and through to Beccles is a good run.

oj121

1,548 posts

172 months

Monday 8th February 2010
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Roads should become drivable and fun again soon. Any more recommendations?

West4x4

672 posts

172 months

Monday 8th February 2010
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if your heading north up the A1 turn off at biggleswade and follow B1040 up to thorney a good little detour may take longer but you'll enjoy it. West of peterborough has lots of great twisty roads Also a lovely twisty section between parson drove and gedney hill way to short tho and a part goes through a village which although the speed limit is still 60 you'd be a tt to do that. another good road is from the A1 at langford heading through Dunton towards cambridge tho gets dull after bassingbourn awsome bend just before you get to wrestlingworth a big dip into a vally with a tight right left then fly up the hill the other side

beefbeef

680 posts

197 months

Thursday 11th February 2010
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A12 between Woods Lane Roundabout in Woodbridge and Marlesford... Late at night, good for a blast biggrin

Robert060379

15,754 posts

183 months

Sunday 14th February 2010
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Took the Queen Adelade from Southery to Ely yesterday and the A1101 back forgot how much fun driving could be. smile

Rigbyy

622 posts

172 months

Sunday 14th February 2010
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Going from Chatteris to Somersham can be quite fun, id say one of the better roads around here.