RE: Calling All PHers!
Sunday 6th April 2008
We love driving here at PH and know that everyone has their own favourite bit of tarmac, be it that back road on the way home, a deserted road in the middle of Wales, or perhaps it isn’t even in the UK.
Calling All PHers!
We want to know your favourite driving roads...
For this reason we want to find out your favourite roads and why, so that we can share them with the PH community.
There’s no prizes, just the joy of sharing a few secret spots that are great fun to drive.
If you have a road that you particularly like, then email stories@pistonheads.com a few hundred words telling us where it is, why you like driving it, what it is like to drive and anything else you want to share.
If we get enough responses we’ll stick them up on the site regularly so that all can enjoy.
Discussion
Great idea in theory, but the best thing about my secret route, is 1. its secret, less cars, 2. it doesn't have a camera van waiting on it. Surely if we all post our routes here, we may lose our routes, or get them changed to 20mph limits!
Sorry, I don't think a forum is the best place to do this.....
keep up the good work though, Pistonheads rocks!
Sorry, I don't think a forum is the best place to do this.....
keep up the good work though, Pistonheads rocks!
Will keep mine to myself i think (its right outside my house lol), a lot of people know about it as a fast road and it is pretty much a racetrack on sundays for bikes as well as cars. Usually spend an hour or so racing the bikes along it on a sunday 
Edited by Eddh on Monday 7th April 12:39
I'm sorry Mr Pistonheads but I really must protest.
I organise group drives such as this one which currently has about 100 entrants signed up, from Clio to Koenigsegg -
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
On my runs I provide TomTom files with the route mapped out exactly, numerous highly zoomed googlemap images (as a pdf) with every instructional significance of the route individually photoshopped on, and extremely detailed written directions. This doesn't all appear by magic.
I have a map at home on which I have highlighted all the good roads I know of in Kent and East Sussex, colour coded as well for suitability for supercars or just regular sports cars (such as my Elise).
I have completed considerably in excess of 1400 miles of recce in Kent and East Sussex, entirely at my own cost, and I do not charge anyone a penny for all my organisational work.
Regrettably, there are inevitably people on PH who don't care to uphold good driving standards or driving etiquette. I'm all for spirited driving, but I refuse to cross the line into discourtesy or danger and that's where the distinction lies, which I make very clear to everyone I drive with.
If I were to post up everything I know then those increasingly rare roads which are currently scamera/speed bump/pothole free may well become better known and overused, to the point where some mollycoddling numpty in an office, or some... er... ************* in a neatly concealed van sticks his or her nose in to the detriment of myself and all my fellow driving enthusiasts alike.
Obviously I wouldn't suggest that one PH'er shouldn't tell another PH'er where there's a good drive to be had, as that would be hypocrisy of the highest degree. However, perhaps it might be better to encourage 'offline' discussion of these hidden gems?
Many thanks,
Jay
I organise group drives such as this one which currently has about 100 entrants signed up, from Clio to Koenigsegg -
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
On my runs I provide TomTom files with the route mapped out exactly, numerous highly zoomed googlemap images (as a pdf) with every instructional significance of the route individually photoshopped on, and extremely detailed written directions. This doesn't all appear by magic.
I have a map at home on which I have highlighted all the good roads I know of in Kent and East Sussex, colour coded as well for suitability for supercars or just regular sports cars (such as my Elise).
I have completed considerably in excess of 1400 miles of recce in Kent and East Sussex, entirely at my own cost, and I do not charge anyone a penny for all my organisational work.
Regrettably, there are inevitably people on PH who don't care to uphold good driving standards or driving etiquette. I'm all for spirited driving, but I refuse to cross the line into discourtesy or danger and that's where the distinction lies, which I make very clear to everyone I drive with.
If I were to post up everything I know then those increasingly rare roads which are currently scamera/speed bump/pothole free may well become better known and overused, to the point where some mollycoddling numpty in an office, or some... er... ************* in a neatly concealed van sticks his or her nose in to the detriment of myself and all my fellow driving enthusiasts alike.
Obviously I wouldn't suggest that one PH'er shouldn't tell another PH'er where there's a good drive to be had, as that would be hypocrisy of the highest degree. However, perhaps it might be better to encourage 'offline' discussion of these hidden gems?
Many thanks,
Jay
Edited by JayKaybi on Monday 7th April 13:03
Another vote for the M25!
A few years ago I posted a reply mentioning details about my favourite road.
It's a cracker and I had never seen it mentioned on PH.
Thought I was doing a few people a favour.
However, I got quite a few responses telling me to keep it quiet.
It's a great undiscovered road and the majority appear to want to keep it that way!
A few years ago I posted a reply mentioning details about my favourite road.
It's a cracker and I had never seen it mentioned on PH.
Thought I was doing a few people a favour.
However, I got quite a few responses telling me to keep it quiet.
It's a great undiscovered road and the majority appear to want to keep it that way!
Why are so many people coming on here to say that they're, "not going to tell where the best roads are so ner"?
Just don't email for crying out loud!
There are some great roads in the Fens just North of Milton Keynes. Just take a Sat Nav with you so that you can get home and go and get lost - that's what me and my brother are doing this weekend in Yorkshire.
Just don't email for crying out loud!
There are some great roads in the Fens just North of Milton Keynes. Just take a Sat Nav with you so that you can get home and go and get lost - that's what me and my brother are doing this weekend in Yorkshire.
Oli S said:
OK, fair enough. Didn't have to be totally secret routes, just some well known ones such as Route Napolean in France, that we could talk about and share experiences. But I understand if you want to keep them to yourselves. Idea duly binned!
Ah, now that's a different teapot of squid - in my mind I thought we were talking local routes and efforts to compile something more detailed and publicly available. Stelvio it is then
MrKipling43 said:
Why are so many people coming on here to say that they're, "not going to tell where the best roads are so ner"?
Just don't email for crying out loud!
There are some great roads in the Fens just North of Milton Keynes. Just take a Sat Nav with you so that you can get home and go and get lost - that's what me and my brother are doing this weekend in Yorkshire.
Your Sat Nav's broken. Yorkshire is nowhere near the Fens. Just don't email for crying out loud!
There are some great roads in the Fens just North of Milton Keynes. Just take a Sat Nav with you so that you can get home and go and get lost - that's what me and my brother are doing this weekend in Yorkshire.
If you are driving out the Fenland way, don't forget a tow truck with a winch, there's some nasty dykes out there...
JayKaybi said:
I'm sorry Mr Pistonheads but I really must protest.
I organise group drives such as this one which currently has about 100 entrants signed up, from Clio to Koenigsegg -
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
On my runs I provide TomTom files with the route mapped out exactly, numerous highly zoomed googlemap images (as a pdf) with every instructional significance of the route individually photoshopped on, and extremely detailed written directions. This doesn't all appear by magic.
I have a map at home on which I have highlighted all the good roads I know of in Kent and East Sussex, colour coded as well for suitability for supercars or just regular sports cars (such as my Elise).
I have completed considerably in excess of 1400 miles of recce in Kent and East Sussex, entirely at my own cost, and I do not charge anyone a penny for all my organisational work.
Regrettably, there are inevitably people on PH who don't care to uphold good driving standards or driving etiquette. I'm all for spirited driving, but I refuse to cross the line into discourtesy or danger and that's where the distinction lies, which I make very clear to everyone I drive with.
If I were to post up everything I know then those increasingly rare roads which are currently scamera/speed bump/pothole free may well become better known and overused, to the point where some mollycoddling numpty in an office, or some... er... ************* in a neatly concealed van sticks his or her nose in to the detriment of myself and all my fellow driving enthusiasts alike.
Obviously I wouldn't suggest that one PH'er shouldn't tell another PH'er where there's a good drive to be had, as that would be hypocrisy of the highest degree. However, perhaps it might be better to encourage 'offline' discussion of these hidden gems?
Many thanks,
Jay
I organise group drives such as this one which currently has about 100 entrants signed up, from Clio to Koenigsegg -
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
On my runs I provide TomTom files with the route mapped out exactly, numerous highly zoomed googlemap images (as a pdf) with every instructional significance of the route individually photoshopped on, and extremely detailed written directions. This doesn't all appear by magic.
I have a map at home on which I have highlighted all the good roads I know of in Kent and East Sussex, colour coded as well for suitability for supercars or just regular sports cars (such as my Elise).
I have completed considerably in excess of 1400 miles of recce in Kent and East Sussex, entirely at my own cost, and I do not charge anyone a penny for all my organisational work.
Regrettably, there are inevitably people on PH who don't care to uphold good driving standards or driving etiquette. I'm all for spirited driving, but I refuse to cross the line into discourtesy or danger and that's where the distinction lies, which I make very clear to everyone I drive with.
If I were to post up everything I know then those increasingly rare roads which are currently scamera/speed bump/pothole free may well become better known and overused, to the point where some mollycoddling numpty in an office, or some... er... ************* in a neatly concealed van sticks his or her nose in to the detriment of myself and all my fellow driving enthusiasts alike.
Obviously I wouldn't suggest that one PH'er shouldn't tell another PH'er where there's a good drive to be had, as that would be hypocrisy of the highest degree. However, perhaps it might be better to encourage 'offline' discussion of these hidden gems?
Many thanks,
Jay
Edited by JayKaybi on Monday 7th April 13:03
agreed. As a generic discussion about where some goods roads might be, this is fine. However, specifically naming particular roads in the UK online is not something that I see any point in doing...Andy
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