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eddie99 - 30/8/08 at 05:05 PM

I dont know whether this has been done before, but it might be cool if people could share their most fun roads that they have been on, Not just in England but maybe in Europe..

Then people might be able to plan trips on these roads...

The best road i know is in Italy, Northern Tuscany, check out on the map, from Aulla - Cerreto with some great restaurants on the way. Its about an hour to get to the top of the mountain, tend to see some ferrari's, pagani's and lamborgini's testing as its only 1.5 hours from modena.

Let the thread begin...

Eddie

novacaine - 30/8/08 at 05:12 PM

we could put together a GPS "points of interest" for everyone to use

eddie99 - 30/8/08 at 05:13 PM

yeah, although thinking about it, maybe keep to UK first, lets see how a UK list goes :p

Eddie

Howlor - 30/8/08 at 05:46 PM

For a european road I have often driven the road north from the coast up the mountains towards the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France.

Really twisty, great tarmac, wide road, just perfect. This is the road were Frank Williams had his accident in a Sierra.

For the UK the route from Osmotherly to Helmsley is just superb. A bit narrow and bumpy in places but for scenery coupled with exhileration at relatively low speeds it is perfect.

Steve

StevieB - 30/8/08 at 06:00 PM

If yo go to the Caterham website, they are currently doing this same survey.

My vote is the road from Dore to Chatsworth in the peak district. Not the most twisty road out there, but it was resurfaced a few years ago and is billiard table smooth with long sweeping bends. Just a shame it's used by so much traffic (and bikes) to attract the rozzers to keep an eye on it.

Benzine - 30/8/08 at 06:04 PM

M25

Richard Quinn - 30/8/08 at 06:13 PM

A9 in Germany. Not twisty or smooth but there is something satisfying about it when the sticker on the dash of your hire car says PLEASE do not exceed 220kmh. Well, you have to see if it will (and it did!)

speedyxjs - 30/8/08 at 07:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
M25


I really really hope your are joking about that
The best road i have ever driven on was the trollsteigen road in Norway.

Daimo_45 - 30/8/08 at 07:09 PM

I go to Normandy for D-Day every year and can safely say the roads there are the best I ever been on! Not a single bump or pothole and countryside all the way!

novacaine - 30/8/08 at 09:08 PM

possible not for a seven but by far the most fun roads i've been on are the forest roads in Jyvaskyla in finland, gravel roads, the roads that make up the ouninpohja stage are out of this world, bit of a hire car breaker mind

Edit to say that the stage on my avatar (Mokkipera), belive it or not is a public road,

[Edited on 30/8/08 by novacaine]

dave1888 - 31/8/08 at 08:31 AM

A82 up through Glencoe and the road to applecross (Bealach na Ba) scenery is nothing short of spectacular. Its just a pity the quality of road surface is shit.