Best driving roads in England only?
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Not long been back from a ride around the Peaks, namely Cat & Fiddle and the Snake Pass as well as other similar roads in that area.
Great fun but Snake Pass in particular was bogged down with 50mph limits and 3 stationary police camera vans. Not to mention the oldies in Vauxhalls and Renault people carriers doing 40 in an already tame 50mph limit. The wreckless suicide squads of the past ruined Cat and Fiddle for the rest of us by, you know, crashing and dying, so that also has 50mph av speed cameras.
What other roads are better or as good as those examples in England?
Not long been back from a ride around the Peaks, namely Cat & Fiddle and the Snake Pass as well as other similar roads in that area.
Great fun but Snake Pass in particular was bogged down with 50mph limits and 3 stationary police camera vans. Not to mention the oldies in Vauxhalls and Renault people carriers doing 40 in an already tame 50mph limit. The wreckless suicide squads of the past ruined Cat and Fiddle for the rest of us by, you know, crashing and dying, so that also has 50mph av speed cameras.
What other roads are better or as good as those examples in England?
Declaring my interest as I live in Ireshopeburn at the top of Weardale, it's difficult to argue with the following as a route :-
Barnard Castle, Alston, Hartside, Melmerby,Hartside, Alston, Nenthead, Stanhope, Harperly Bank, West Auckland.
Just by coincidence most of this is the route of the North East 7's group this sunday!
Barnard Castle, Alston, Hartside, Melmerby,Hartside, Alston, Nenthead, Stanhope, Harperly Bank, West Auckland.
Just by coincidence most of this is the route of the North East 7's group this sunday!
Kenty,
I'll be mountain biking Alston, Blagill, Nenthead mine, Garigill and back to the Cumberland Arms this evening. We truly are blessed are we not?
Look out for a powder blue Lotus Elan in the Pennines, that'll be me! I used to to have a Seven and could be seen plying those roads on many a summers eve, often with the NE Seven boys. Still meet at the Church Mouse?
I'll be mountain biking Alston, Blagill, Nenthead mine, Garigill and back to the Cumberland Arms this evening. We truly are blessed are we not?
Look out for a powder blue Lotus Elan in the Pennines, that'll be me! I used to to have a Seven and could be seen plying those roads on many a summers eve, often with the NE Seven boys. Still meet at the Church Mouse?
Although I live in Thirsk , and hence within a spit of the Moors and a slightly longer spit of the Dales, much of N Yorkshire is full of caravanners/motor homes / pick ups and people on cars and bikes doing the same as you . Wensleydale is lovely as long as you driving there before 7am , much of Swaledale is narrow and fiddly and Buttertubs very overrated.
As for the Moors, it's all a bit obvious really- B1257 Yorkshire TT (Stokesley - Helmsley) and Hutton Le Hole - Castleton are prime suspects . As often as not it is My Own Biker Hell - and what is it about bikers that they expect to zoom past everybody on the straights (fine , they're quick ) but go into total denial on twisty sections that a car has caught them and wants to go - and can go - much faster?
For real driving I far prefer N Durham and Northumbria but my secret favourites are further east on the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Wolds and although flat , the road between York and Howden, then Goole to Epworth is an early morning delight.
As for the Moors, it's all a bit obvious really- B1257 Yorkshire TT (Stokesley - Helmsley) and Hutton Le Hole - Castleton are prime suspects . As often as not it is My Own Biker Hell - and what is it about bikers that they expect to zoom past everybody on the straights (fine , they're quick ) but go into total denial on twisty sections that a car has caught them and wants to go - and can go - much faster?
For real driving I far prefer N Durham and Northumbria but my secret favourites are further east on the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Wolds and although flat , the road between York and Howden, then Goole to Epworth is an early morning delight.
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