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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #10 on: 30 March 2007, 18:46 »
I likey the Banchory to Montrose in 10 minutes  :shocked:

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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #11 on: 30 March 2007, 19:03 »
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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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #12 on: 02 April 2007, 11:06 »
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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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #13 on: 03 April 2007, 00:06 »
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!

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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #14 on: 04 April 2007, 16:21 »
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!

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Another road I can try later this year. This just gets better :smiley:. Keep em coming.
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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #15 on: 04 April 2007, 22:34 »
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...

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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #16 on: 05 April 2007, 06:56 »
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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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #17 on: 10 April 2007, 17:15 »
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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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #18 on: 12 April 2007, 13:48 »
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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Re: Great Driving Roads
« Reply #19 on: 13 April 2007, 10:10 »
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:
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