road hunting - smooth, wide, twisty and downhill

[rich@lush]

Hi everyone.

I'm looking for suitable roads to shut for a downhill skateboard race. Spots must be:

>>At least 12ft wide

>>Nice and twisty - think alpine!

>>At least a mile long

>>No catseyes

>>Good road surface

>>Realistically shuttable (so no A roads!)

>>Around 8-10% gradient

Preferably in the south of england or wales. If anyone has any ideas please get in touch - we've been hunting around for years trying to find somewhere good!

Cheers,

Rich.

[BadgerBenji]

Going by the flood of replies, we dont have any, this wonder was brought to you by the help of road tax, and extorniate petrol prices.

[Roman]

Contact one of the hillclimb courses? Shelsey Walsh, Prescott (Bugatti owners club) etc -


don't use without permission though - private estate! If not somewhere on the Cornish or N. Devon coast may be ok - Lynton, Porlock

[combemarshal]

Damit, just read the First post and I was going to sudgest Prescott (you'd have to do away with Ettores as it goes back up hill but you could go round the cross over) But I'd imagine it would be a tad expensive, unless you could just have a quiet word with the ownere of the house whos drive it is!!

Or round here, there is a road that goes from Nympsfield to eastington, It has recently been resurfaced, but can't remember if its got eyes!

I'd head round the cotwolds, we tend to have lots of twisty hilly roads round here!
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Or there is this one that leads from Minchinhampton common down to woodchester
(Bear hill, next to the bear pub!)

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[sixpackpert]

I live in Woodchester and Bear Hill would be a good one, just make sure you stop before the main road at the bottom!!!

Oh yeah and mind the cattle grid!

Cheers

Jon

[combemarshal]

sixpackpert said:

I live in Woodchester and Bear Hill would be a good one, just make sure you stop before the main road at the bottom!!!

Oh yeah and mind the cattle grid!

Cheers

Jon

Oh yeah, Kind of forgot the cattle grid!!!

[Philbes]

All the roads down off Minchinhapton Common have cattle grids and/or end at a tee-junction.
All the down-hill, twisty roads in the area I can think of either have the above disadvantages or are too busy to close.
A road on private land seems the best bet.

[skintrich]

What about from Box crescent to balls green or the weighbridge?
How many of us are in the five valleys?

Sheepscombe has some nice roads coming back towards painswick, not that wide though