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Britains Best Roads
greggors84 - 18/6/03 at 11:49 PM

Not sure if this has been posted here before, but something reminded me about this site i saw ages ago, hopefully it has a lot more info on it now.

I know a road is better when no one is on it, so submitting your favourite road could ruin it, but you might as well share the wealth.

Especially for us young drivers who dont know the really good roads

http://www.tyrekickers.com/bestroads/


Mark Allanson - 19/7/03 at 08:44 PM

You will have to go a long way to beat the road from Lands End to St Ives along the coast. It is usually traffic free, fantastic views and most of the corners have positive camber after an improvement scheme about 15 years ago when they tried to stop the number of cars disobeying the 'shiny side up' rule in the middle of the night. very often the cars would be found 2 days later buried in heather and bracken!

Look for it on the map, 20 miles of uninterupted fun


robinbastd - 19/7/03 at 08:53 PM

Just have to agree with Mark,but why not carry on after St Ives/Hayle and keep on going past Hell's Mouth,etc??? Unbeatable

Ian


Mark Allanson - 19/7/03 at 09:03 PM

Ian, your driving towards England then!


Jon Ison - 20/7/03 at 06:05 PM

Cat n fiddle..........

good place for picking donor bike engines too.........


greggors84 - 23/7/03 at 10:47 PM

A road i heard about is is the A1040 from the somewhere off the A1 up to thorney, where the Tiger Factory is. I think i got it off the tiger owners website.

The first time i went up, it was raining and there are lots of tight turns through villages, kept on locking up and sliding into the corners! Not clever.

Anyway that road goes through a St. Ives, not THE St. Ives though.

What are the chances!


chrisg - 23/7/03 at 11:25 PM

We found a great road by accident on the way back from Le Mans!

We got lost coming out of Poole and, well I know we went through Salisbury, don't know the numbers, maybe one of the shandy drinkers could fill us in.

Great road, not many petrol sations tho!

Cheers

Chris

The navigator


Sideways 2 Victory - 24/7/03 at 10:18 AM

Chaps

Here's another great site for driving roads, aimed at bikers but roads are roads and we've only wee little cars

Check out the links in the first paragraph here:

http://www.bytefactory.com/mcycle/index.shtml

ATB

Dave


eddie - 27/7/03 at 12:23 AM

thought of the snake pass or the wood head pass???

while youre out that way out round matlock and buxton....

but if you want free roads try the valleys in wales, why???

cause no one wants to go there