Highest road you've been on?
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peterperkins said:
18,000 feet etc..
How was the breathing for you and the bike up that high?
The Royal Enfield must have been an asthmatic ant at that altitude.
I once had a medical for testing a car in an altitude test chamber. I was not allowed owing to low haemoglobin count. A few years later, a robot driver was developed to allow even higher altitude testing.How was the breathing for you and the bike up that high?
The Royal Enfield must have been an asthmatic ant at that altitude.
I lived in Lincoln years ago - on the partly named Lindum Hill. It's a slight pull to walk (if you were on 30 Marlboro reds s a day , as I was then ) but it's not Pikes Peak . My mate's relations - from March , below sea level in the Fens- refused point blank to drive up such a scary incline..
My highest is the Susstenpass - 2260m - and I can report that my OH's badass 306 Diesel Turbo romped up it . Scarier was Sutton Bank - about 300m , 8miles from home , in my 2CV , four up , 1st all the way . My Seven managed a healthy 85mph peak velocity there when , miraculously, the NSL enjoyed a very brief local relaxation.
My highest is the Susstenpass - 2260m - and I can report that my OH's badass 306 Diesel Turbo romped up it . Scarier was Sutton Bank - about 300m , 8miles from home , in my 2CV , four up , 1st all the way . My Seven managed a healthy 85mph peak velocity there when , miraculously, the NSL enjoyed a very brief local relaxation.
Pica-Pica said:
Not sure about U.K., but in Europe; GrossGlockner (vehicle testing), bloody hot; and Jungfrau (leisure), bloody cold. Both in midsummer (different years).
The top of the road is 2500 metres. The mountain itself is close to 3800metres.I went over the road in a tourist bus. Lots of disguised cars on test.
RipTrip1 said:
Fishlegs said:
Just googled highest road in UK, and it says Cairnwell Pass (aka the Glenshee Road) is the highest "main" road at 670m, a road I've driven many times, so I guess my answer is that.
Scenic?
The road is great, and yes the scenery adds to the occasion. Most mags and TV car shows have used that road. Here's JayEmm in my 2-11 on the bit between Glenshee Ski Center and Braemar which should give you a feel for it:
https://youtu.be/Fh1dfDaT5fU
Fishlegs said:
No, I've never owned a Renault.
The road is great, and yes the scenery adds to the occasion. Most mags and TV car shows have used that road. Here's JayEmm in my 2-11 on the bit between Glenshee Ski Center and Braemar which should give you a feel for it:
https://youtu.be/Fh1dfDaT5fU
Lol I knew you would make a Renault joke haha. Looks amazing The road is great, and yes the scenery adds to the occasion. Most mags and TV car shows have used that road. Here's JayEmm in my 2-11 on the bit between Glenshee Ski Center and Braemar which should give you a feel for it:
https://youtu.be/Fh1dfDaT5fU
Fishlegs said:
Just googled highest road in UK, and it says Cairnwell Pass (aka the Glenshee Road) is the highest "main" road at 670m, a road I've driven many times, so I guess my answer is that.
I didn't know that was the highest UK road, been up that on the way to Glenshee a fair bit. Once on a 1972 Puch Maxi moped... It needed a bit of input from me on the pedals to get to the topNot on a road, but I've been to the top of Ben Nevis on a TL125 trials bike. You can't get any higher than that in the UK.
RipTrip1 said:
Fishlegs said:
Just googled highest road in UK, and it says Cairnwell Pass (aka the Glenshee Road) is the highest "main" road at 670m, a road I've driven many times, so I guess my answer is that.
Scenic?And the ski centre at the top is open year round and makes a great bowl of soup.
dxg said:
RipTrip1 said:
Fishlegs said:
Just googled highest road in UK, and it says Cairnwell Pass (aka the Glenshee Road) is the highest "main" road at 670m, a road I've driven many times, so I guess my answer is that.
Scenic?And the ski centre at the top is open year round and makes a great bowl of soup.
Col de la Bonnet claims to be the highest in europe. I drove it in a sixties Alfa Spider.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywOJgWJfKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywOJgWJfKY
coppice said:
I lived for years on the western edge of the North York Moors and when conditions were right I could see the radar thingie from home, with binoculars - I reckon 50miles away . What is in it ?
It's an air traffic control radarI think you can see it from Shap Fell too which is also pretty far away
sevensfun said:
Never seen that before. Thank you, that was wonderful! MattyD803 said:
Across the Tioga Pass in Yosemite/Sierra Nevada range, California. The road rises to c. 3000m / 10000ft at it's peak.
We set off from Furnace Creek in Death Valley that morning, which is -58m below sea level, and was 35 degrees, so we were wearing light weight clothing and flip flops......It was May and the Tioga pass had only just opened a couple of days prior, which meant when we stepped out at the parking area at the head of the pass, we were greeted with snow piles much taller than us and temps well below freezing. Clothing choice by that point wasn't ideal, but as the climate control had held us at a steady 22/23 degrees, we hadn't really thought it through.
It is fair to say that at the steepest section of the climb I was glad that we had booked a 300C with the Hemi V8 under the hood......and even that didn't exactly fly up. Many of the camper vans and picks up were genuinely crawling up.
Simply incredible driving, views from which will live in my memory forever.
Yes, in my case the other direction. I started at Cook Camp and headed down to Las Vegas in one shot, followed by several shots when I met up with my mates. Again the Tioga pass had just opened a couple of days before and there were banks of snow. A good time to visit as the crowds are smaller and in melt season the waterfalls are epic.We set off from Furnace Creek in Death Valley that morning, which is -58m below sea level, and was 35 degrees, so we were wearing light weight clothing and flip flops......It was May and the Tioga pass had only just opened a couple of days prior, which meant when we stepped out at the parking area at the head of the pass, we were greeted with snow piles much taller than us and temps well below freezing. Clothing choice by that point wasn't ideal, but as the climate control had held us at a steady 22/23 degrees, we hadn't really thought it through.
It is fair to say that at the steepest section of the climb I was glad that we had booked a 300C with the Hemi V8 under the hood......and even that didn't exactly fly up. Many of the camper vans and picks up were genuinely crawling up.
Simply incredible driving, views from which will live in my memory forever.
Unfortunately I only had a Chrysler C200 which was rather less than impressive, I know altitude makes a difference but I feel even my (turbo) diesel Vectra would have been more fun.
But even in a 126 that road (well the downhill sections) would have been undimmed. The views are spectacular and road excellent.
Fishlegs said:
sevensfun said:
Never seen that before. Thank you, that was wonderful! 
though I wouldn't want to be stuck behind the slow traffic heading the other way
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