Cat and Fiddle

[8pot]

Any one know what the latest position is regarding the speed cameras? I understand there was a balls up with the positioning of them due to the short cut, but with that new tarmac it is looking so tempting for a good blast. Are cameras turned on now?

[IanMorewood]

Still think the shortcuts mean its not possible to prosecute, however don't cry to me if your done. Mind better roads to go quickly on that won't get the same police attention/muppets.

[Benbay001]

Never been on the road, only heard about it. Surely there are better roads? Its 50mph now? yeh?

[IanMorewood]

Yes there are slightly better roads but its pretty (when not in cloud/fog/rain) and the road can be a challenge if you don’t get caught in a stream of traffic or involved in a bunch of people performing suicide moves. Oh and yes like most of North Derbyshire its now a 50 limit.

[goldblum]

They've simply moved the first camera from the first layby out of Macc about half a mile further back and positioned another halfway between the Wildboar turnoff and the pub.

Which means it's possible to 'enjoy' the road from the bottom all the way to the first righthand turn beyond the layby,take that,next left back on the road bypassing

the first camera and then all the way to the pub at legal speeds,obviously.When you get to the pub you will have passed only one camera and, as they are specs

and you need to pass two to be have your speed 'read',you will be fine.

I was up there last night and can confirm that a number of other bikers (only a handful - ha!) have sussed this.It was blissfully quiet.

Remember to watch for sheep..I had a sphincter tightening moment last year up there.

So providing you don't speed beyond the pub towards Buxton it doesn't matter whether the cameras are active/duff/whatever.

[8pot]

Which are the better roads in north derbyshire?

[goldblum]

If you want lots of bends there aren't any.Plenty of faster roads though..Buxton/Leek has no cameras at all..

[mybrainhurts]

goldblum said:

Remember to watch for sheep..I had a sphincter tightening moment last year up there.

Playing hard to get, was she...?

[Cyder]

Stunning piece of road, drove it for the first time on Friday on the way north, and on my own in a car with proper suspension it would be ace!

As it was, even the missus commented on how much of a 'drivers road' it is, she's learning slowly!

[goldblum]

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

Remember to watch for sheep..I had a sphincter tightening moment last year up there.

Playing hard to get, was she...?

harder than your mother,anyway,AND I didn't have to pay her afterwards..

[mybrainhurts]

goldblum said:

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

Remember to watch for sheep..I had a sphincter tightening moment last year up there.

Playing hard to get, was she...?

harder than your mother,anyway,AND I didn't have to pay her afterwards..

Into necrophilia too, eh..?

[goldblum]

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

Remember to watch for sheep..I had a sphincter tightening moment last year up there.

Playing hard to get, was she...?

harder than your mother,anyway,AND I didn't have to pay her afterwards..

Into necrophilia too, eh..?

lol

Ahh..thought I must have been losing my touch..she WAS strangely quiet and normally they slap and swear at me..

[Allyc85]

I did the Cat and Fiddle last month and while the cameras are a pain, it was still easy to have alot alot of fun on the twisty bits. Any way it dosnt take any skill to pin open a throttle on a straight

Edited by Allyc85 on Monday 25th April 15:37

[The fatboy]

the cameras should be the most disgraceful thing in the area, the scenic up there is nice but the cameras spoiled it.

[mybrainhurts]

goldblum said:

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

Remember to watch for sheep..I had a sphincter tightening moment last year up there.

Playing hard to get, was she...?

harder than your mother,anyway,AND I didn't have to pay her afterwards..

Into necrophilia too, eh..?

lol

Ahh..thought I must have been losing my touch..she WAS strangely quiet and normally they slap and swear at me..

You must be very ugly...

[goldblum]

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

mybrainhurts said:

goldblum said:

Remember to watch for sheep..I had a sphincter tightening moment last year up there.

Playing hard to get, was she...?

harder than your mother,anyway,AND I didn't have to pay her afterwards..

Into necrophilia too, eh..?

lol

Ahh..thought I must have been losing my touch..she WAS strangely quiet and normally they slap and swear at me..

You must be very ugly...

..as I'm trying to tie them up.

[EvoBarry]

I have been told by numerous people, and the council have all but admitted it, that the cameras have never been fully operational. Of course, their mere presence calms some folk down so its no bad thing in some ways. Its fully possible to enjoy the road without getting near the limits they are alledgedly set at anyway. I go up there regularly as I'm local, and I've yet to get a ticket through the post

This is for the Cheshire side of course, I wouldn't dare presume what Derbyshire CC will do, money grabbing so-and-so's that they are. I went over to Matlock yesterday and lost count of the scamera vans I spotted. And a 50 mph limit on the A515, are they having a laff?!

[goldblum]

EvoBarry said:

I have been told by numerous people, and the council have all but admitted it, that the cameras have never been fully operational. Of course, their mere presence calms some folk down so its no bad thing in some ways. Its fully possible to enjoy the road without getting near the limits they are alledgedly set at anyway. I go up there regularly as I'm local, and I've yet to get a ticket through the post

You're right,there is not really any need to speed and you would struggle to get round a lot of the bends at more than 40mph.Of course most of the cameras are

after the pub between it and Buxton where some try to set land speed records and don't know the various bumps and camber changes that make that long 'straight'

risky when 'pressing on'.

Consensus has it the cameras are inactive,and they also have power issues - in that there isn't any up there. The camera nearest to the Cat is on the pub's

power supply and the landlord told me he's had engineers in last week saying it's possible the cameras will be taken down again.

[deanocool]

lol everyone raves about the cat and fiddle. i must be the only person in derbyshire that hasnt been on that run yet. darn

[dowahdiddyman]

Favourite of mine is Buxton to Whaley Bridge, over long hill, then left at the lights to Macclesfield then either back over the cat n fiddle or carry on to Bosley Lights then hang a left back TO Buxton..