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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: Hully on 29 March 2007, 14:21
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I thought I would start up a new thread on peoples recommendations of great driving roads. There's bound to be loads out there that are absolute gems throughout the country. Then if anyones in the area they can give them a try. Feel free to add comments as you see fit. If this proves popular, we could ask for it to be made into a sticky. Ok, time to get the ball rolling. See below for a few of my personnel favorites with comments:
1. B1257 Stokesley to Helmsley, North Yorkshire.
An absolute blast in either direction, but be warned, get to know the road first as there's lots of undulations and technical twists. :evil: Best driven outside peak times such as holidays and weekend afternoons as can get busy with tourists and bikers. I believe this road was mentioned by Car Magazine as one of their top 10.
2. B6318 Greenhead to Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumbria. (Runs parallel to the A69 west coast Cumbria to east coast Northumbria)
Great road for extremely long straights and fast corners. Again the road is quite undulating and used to be a Roman road, hence the long straights! Again can be busy during peak periods due to a number of museums along the road. Hadrians Wall runs the entire length of it.
Well there's a couple for you all to be getting on with. I'm sure I'll think of a few more over the next day or so. Forgot to mention, both these roads have some spectacular scenery too, so you could use the excuse with the wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend that you are on a sightseeing trip. :grin: :evil: Right, I'll sit back and see where this goes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNSCRGv0h8Q
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i cannot recomend more than any other road than the A939 that goes from Ballater to Nairn - now God himself made that road - beats the Kairnamount road any day!
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A57 - Derwent Reservoir to Glossop
Superb stretch of road enhanced by the fact that all the lorries tend to go over the wider route on the A628 Woodhead pass. Approximately 10 miles long and a hoot in either direction. Both tight twisties and long flowing bends are the order of the day. The only two drawbacks are that there are only 3 or 4 overtaking opportunities and that half way up the road has some awkward off camber corners combined with some pitting in the surface.
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A57 Snake pass great road - mind you seen a few cars go off there!
Mind you I like the Strines or Mortimer road between the A57 and A616 Langsett. Lots of twistys and a couple of hairpins also. :shocked:
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M275 outa portsmouth, such pleasure leaving that dump of a city, oh what a sh!t hole that place is :grin:
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The A82 from Glasgow to Fort William. It has mental windy bits and some belting straights. Loch Lomond is not for the faint hearted.
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Snowdonia. All round Betws-y-Coed
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The A82 from Glasgow to Fort William. It has mental windy bits and some belting straights. Loch Lomond is not for the faint hearted.
Yeah, forgot about that one.
I was up there a few years ago, lovely road, the stretch from Fort William to Inverness ain't bad either.
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The A82 from Glasgow to Fort William. It has mental windy bits and some belting straights. Loch Lomond is not for the faint hearted.
Too busy for me i'm afraid - Glen Coe is where all the mags take their cars too - but it's full of daft sheep, caravans and Americans :wink:
Saying that if you carry on from Fort William :sick: to Invergarry to Kyle of Lochalsh on the A87 - that is recommeded - for the less experienced of that area you will see the castle that they used for the film Highlander up there - that will keep your other half happy and a good excuse for making her sick! :grin:
Skye can be good too as can be Shetland but far too many sheep at the latter - i only go on buisness - this has its benefits though as i always get a hire car while there! :evil: :evil:
Try A924 - B950 - A93 from Pitlochary to Braemar - Has the sheep problem near the ski slopes but not so busy as the West Coast - much better!
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I likey the Banchory to Montrose in 10 minutes :shocked:
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The B974 Cairn O' Mount road is a fantastic road to drive on...we took a bunch of TTs and a Mk5 R32 over there recently on a group thrash...the downhill stretch from the top of the hill to the "Clatterin' Brig" bridge at the bottom is mental fun if done at a decent speed :grin:
Downhill stretch starts around 3 min 40 on that video
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M275 outa portsmouth, such pleasure leaving that dump of a city, oh what a sh!t hole that place is :grin:
It must be bad Phil, if you class the M-way as a good road! :wink: :grin:
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A835, from Contin (20m north of Inverness), through Ullapool and Assynt, over the Kylesku Bridge, through Scourie to Rhiconich. It's single track after that but still fun. Not a traffic cop in sight, big wide roads, great bends, better scenery and if you go just now, very little other traffic. Can not be beaten!
clum1
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A835, from Contin (20m north of Inverness), through Ullapool and Assynt, over the Kylesku Bridge, through Scourie to Rhiconich. It's single track after that but still fun. Not a traffic cop in sight, big wide roads, great bends, better scenery and if you go just now, very little other traffic. Can not be beaten!
clum1
Another road I can try later this year. This just gets better :smiley:. Keep em coming.
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Another road I can try later this year. This just gets better :smiley:. Keep em coming.
Leave it 'til the summer and the caravannettes are out; it's not uncommon to get stuck behind a convoy of three or four Italians, all completely oblivious to the traffic behind them. There's quite a few straights though...
Calum
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the first part of woodhead pass just after thingyton is good for an all out blast, from the flouch roundabout to the top off the hill, you can get flat to the floor for about 3 miles :evil:
scotland has got to have the best roads, unfortunately i am always driving a van when i go there, still enjoy the drive though :evil:
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Another good road for all those over in swampy land. The B1145 from Kings Lynn to Aylsham is a blast, with some fantastic bends, where you can see if anything is coming before you enter them. Unusually for Norfolk, its got some hills along it too! :grin: :wink:
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Another good road for all those over in swampy land. The B1145 from Kings Lynn to Aylsham is a blast, with some fantastic bends, where you can see if anything is coming before you enter them. Unusually for Norfolk, its got some hills along it too! :grin: :wink:
Oi - that's my neck of the woods !!!!
Keep away from the A149 on the North Norfolk coast though, pleanty of hairdryers! :wink:
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Another good road for all those over in swampy land. The B1145 from Kings Lynn to Aylsham is a blast, with some fantastic bends, where you can see if anything is coming before you enter them. Unusually for Norfolk, its got some hills along it too! :grin: :wink:
Oi - that's my neck of the woods !!!!
Keep away from the A149 on the North Norfolk coast though, pleanty of hairdryers! :wink:
PMSL :laugh: :laugh:. Spent a few years down there and its a lovely part the world, good golf courses too! :wink: Oh, and the clubs actually fit in the boot of the new Mk5 unlike the Mk4. :angry: