Bruce goes Viking (A McLaren in Norway)

[PenelopaPitstop]

mikey k said:

Steepest "paved" road in Europe apparently

What's the name/location of the road?

mikey k said:

A roundabout in a tunnel! Never seen that before

Encountred in Tromso, seems to be standard solution in Norway.

[nekrum]

Awesome - we did similar trip 4 years ago with the RS6.. that tunnel is endless, even with the disco stop areas.. Can't remember where it was but here was also a tunnel with a roundabout in it!..

Doh!..

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A roundabout in a tunnel! Never seen that before

DSC01530 (2) by Mikey K 650S, on Flickr
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Edited by nekrum on Wednesday 28th September 13:46

[mikey k]

nekrum said:

Awesome - we did similar trip 4 years ago with the RS6.. that tunnel is endless, even with the disco stop areas.. Can't remember where it was but here was also a tunnel with a roundabout in it!..

Doh!..

What this one
Turn left and it suddenly comes out on to a bridge and then immediately disappears in to another tunnel the other end - nutters!

DSC01530 (2) by Mikey K 650S, on Flickr

[Ken Figenus]

Fabulous pics Mikey - you clearly have an absolutely cracking eye for framing and composition. Will gladly add to your armoury over a beer on our next hoon and twiddle some camera knobs with you! No RAW tweaks going are there?

I made it to Sweden in a TVR once - they absolutely loved the noisy car there! How was Norway with Bruce - or have they had all the joie de vivre knocked out of them (mind you I then I think of the fab Petter Solberg)

Epic journey mate

[NordicCrankShaft]

mikey k said:

What this one
Turn left and it suddenly comes out on to a bridge and then immediately disappears in to another tunnel the other end - nutters!

DSC01530 (2) by Mikey K 650S, on Flickr

Yes turn onto the bridge and you're paying nearly £15 to cross it.....one way

[mikey k]

NordicCrankShaft said:

Yes turn onto the bridge and you're paying nearly £15 to cross it.....one way

Not seen the AutoPass bill yet

[mikey k]

Ken Figenus said:

Fabulous pics Mikey - you clearly have an absolutely cracking eye for framing and composition. Will gladly add to your armoury over a beer on our next hoon and twiddle some camera knobs with you! No RAW tweaks going are there?

I made it to Sweden in a TVR once - they absolutely loved the noisy car there! How was Norway with Bruce - or have they had all the joie de vivre knocked out of them (mind you I then I think of the fab Petter Solberg)

Epic journey mate

Cheers Dewi
I'm OKish with compostion, impatient with manual settings, RAW and post processing
There is a little bit of messing with brightness and contrast in jpg format on a few but that is it
Not clever enough to work it out any further!

The Norwegians were bowled over by the McLaren, it appeared on a fair few FB & instagram feeds. Mostly because its over £500k to buy over there! There is only one resident owner who lives in Oslo so they just don't see them. One guy in a VW MPV full of family nearly caused a massive pile up trying to getting front of me to take pictures

[Ken Figenus]

No you are brilliant with composition - going to add some depth of field lessons and you will be making Athena posters soon mate - cant go wrong with Mclarens and Fjords after all!

[mikey k]

Ken Figenus said:

No you are brilliant with composition - going to add some depth of field lessons and you will be making Athena posters soon mate - cant go wrong with Mclarens and Fjords after all!

I'm not going back just to retake the pics after the lessons!

[MajorMantra]

Nice pics! And interesting to see somewhere I know very little about. It looks like Norway would be a good place to tour in a slow-but-fun car. (Dare I say it, MX-5?)

[mikey k]

MajorMantra said:

Nice pics! And interesting to see somewhere I know very little about. It looks like Norway would be a good place to tour in a slow-but-fun car. (Dare I say it, MX-5?)

Yep perfect car to take in the scenery

[mikey k]

PenelopaPitstop said:

Whats the name of this location

Its called Stalheimskleiva just off the E16 near Oppheim.
Its one was from the summit so great for stopping and taking in the views!

[mikey k]

Can't believe this was exactly a year ago
Well over due another epic trip

[K50 DEL]

It's a great shame that none of the pics are displaying (is that just for me?) as it looks like a fabulous trip into some less-travelled areas.

[mikey k]

Works fine on my laptop and phone
They are embedded Flickr links
Some are large so it may just take a while to load the whole page

[dannyDC2]

Pics working here (work PC which usually blocks a lot of pics out!)

Great shots, thanks for posting

[K50 DEL]

Must be my version of IE, just checked in Chrome and all is well - now to re-read!

[mwstewart]

Great - thanks. It's given me some inspiration for next year.

[Kyodo]

mwstewart said:

Great - thanks. It's given me some inspiration for next year.

+1
We've been investigating Norway road trip options for next year and info and pics like this is a real help. I think it'll be a great place to take my wife's TT for a jolly

Cheers