Evo Triangle - how long

[matt frost]

Hi all, I have done a search as I gathered this would be a well covered topic and the first reply would be use the search button or something lol....however I couldn't find an answer to what I wanted.

Anyway I am heading to Anglesey for a trackday in 2 weeks from London and am tempted to divert a tad to do the triangle or at least part of it. I have looked and AA route planner says we will go in a tad north of it (the A55) so it shouldn't be too much of a diversion. I have looked it up and am guessing the basic triangle (I am sure there are roads surrounding it are great too) consists of the A5 along the bottom, and the B4501 and A543.

The question is, roughtly how far or how long does it take to do the triangle at a reasonable rate. I am tempted to a lap or half a lap and continue along the A5 up towards Anglesey.

Cheers.

[simonparky]

roughly 15mins to do the triangle

[plenty]

You'd have to be pushing very hard indeed to do it in 15 mins. It's about 20 miles.

[matt frost]

Brilliant, thanks guys....especially for that map!

[Matt_Fezzy]

Doesn't feel like 20 mins when your going round it!!

Edited by Matt_Fezzy on Friday 1st May 17:12

[mmm-five]

plenty said:

You'd have to be pushing very hard indeed to do it in 15 mins. It's about 20 miles.

So? The 'Ring is 14 miles long and only takes 9 minutes

[Allyc85]

Matt_Fezzy said:

Doesn't feel like 20 mins when your going round it!!

Edited by Matt_Fezzy on Friday 1st May 17:12

lol was thinking exactly the same thing, feels like half of that

[plenty]

mmm-five said:

plenty said:

You'd have to be pushing very hard indeed to do it in 15 mins. It's about 20 miles.

So? The 'Ring is 14 miles long and only takes 9 minutes

True, but there aren't not too many numpty tourists on the Ring and nor is there this guy watching over you.

[mmm-five]

plenty said:

mmm-five said:

plenty said:

You'd have to be pushing very hard indeed to do it in 15 mins. It's about 20 miles.

So? The 'Ring is 14 miles long and only takes 9 minutes

True, but there aren't not too many numpty tourists on the Ring and nor is there this guy watching over you.

I've just been very lucky then, as I've not 'seen' a copper or mobile camera on the Evo Triangle when I've been using them (over the last 6 years) - must be the odd hours/days I go

[Overlag]

instead of going via the A55 what about going into wales via the M54 then A5 you could then do the horse shoe pass, then leave the a5 to do the east then west side of the evo triangle leaving out the bottom a5 section?

[mmm-five]

Well, my route home from Birmingham to Liverpool this weekend included a little spur-of-the-moment diversion.

Unfortunately, Sunday afternoon turned out not to be the best time to do a run, and ended up stuck behind numpties who were too scared to overtake anything travelling at 30mph and just decided to stay up their arses, in effect making a 30/40ft lorry now 200ft long and much more difficult to overtake than it should have been. If they had just hung back from the lorry by 10/20m then they'd have been able to see past it on both sides (depending on the corner/road/etc.) and had plenty of opportunities to overtake.

In the end I just had to wait for roads with a nice long straight and good visibility to do the convoy pass, although a guy in a black Astra VXR got a shock when he decided to pull out from the middle of the convoy without looking - he was lucky that at least one of us was paying attention, and I didn't even feel the need to burn his retinas with my bi-xenons

[Lord Croker]

mmm-five said:

I've just been very lucky then, as I've not 'seen' a copper or mobile camera on the Evo Triangle when I've been using them (over the last 6 years) - must be the odd hours/days I go

They once were caught using a horsebox with a camera in the back...

Edited by Lord Croker on Monday 4th May 22:31

[Geebo]

Lord Croker said:

mmm-five said:

They once were caught using a horsebox with a camera in the back...

Edited by Lord Croker on Monday 4th May 22:31

How the hell do these people sleep at night

[mmm-five]

Geebo said:

Lord Croker said:

They once were caught using a horsebox with a camera in the back...

How the hell do these people sleep at night

There's a double bed in the back of the trailer

[plenty]

mmm-five said:

Well, my route home from Birmingham to Liverpool this weekend included a little spur-of-the-moment diversion.

Nice diversion. I would have turned off at Bala and picked up the B4391 to Welshpool. Cracking stretch and relatively lightly trafficked. Generally the numpties and caravans in Wales tend to stick to the A routes leaving the many wonderful Bs free to play.

[mmm-five]

The route was actually a reverse of what was posted, just got my to & from in the wrong places, so it would have to have been Welshpool to Bala.

I've probably done the B4391 a few times in the past, but this weekend I simply got my paper map out and found a town near the coast and headed towards it, then found another further up, etc.

I originally planned to go to Ffestiniog & Betws-y-Coed, but decided to reroute to avoid a bit of traffic on the A5 (some were doing 30mph along double-white line roads, so I couldn't overtake).