Favourite Roads...

[jimbobsimmonds]

hi guys...

was just thinking we could get a little list of favourite roads for driving 100% legally :-) late on a sunday night for example ...

i live in the Medway area so have a pretty good knowledge of the local roads but just a general local area compilation would be cool...

1: Church Lane, Chalk (nr Gravesend) to Chalk Road, Higham

great straights with a few crests, brilliant lines of sight... quiet...

2: Buckland Road / West Street / Salt Lane (Higham to Cliffe)

varied section with good lines of sight, quite high speed but tight at first and pretty much single lane with a blind crested bridge thrown in for good measure... up towards salt lane is designed for trucks so is very wide and recently surface... great sweeping corners with plenty of bail out space... salt lane itself is long and straight and is good for a quick 0 - legal speed limit blast...

(plenty of very good roads in this area)

Cliffe / Cooling / High Halstow / Deangate / Strood

superb and varied, my favourite stretch in this area... tight blind twisty bits folowed by medium length open straights with 90 degree corners and a few chicanes thrown in around cooling... great little sequences of corners nr high halstow, dux court lane you can genuinely get airborne over the infamous crest... all topped off by a nice long straight with roundabouts thrown in down the ratcliff raceway...

(all 3 of the above pretty much link into one sequence...)
4: Cobham to Cuxton.

know this road like the back of my hand as have been riding my push bike down the hill since i gained long enough legs to make the ride... probably best you don't go full bore first time or in the day time as the lines of sight are good with headlights but the verges and grass can make it tricky but with a bit of practice you can genuinely have a laugh if you plant your inside wheels in the drainage crests for example...



have plenty more and if anyone can work out a way of getting the routes from google or bing or w/e maps into a link it would make this a lot easier... post away...

[furball330i]

the road that goes through camber sands is pretty awesome, but they are wise to people enjoying the road and have unmarked cars there all the time...

[snowen250]

Alkham valley road is good, tis my route to work. But it is a nsl, then 50, then 40, then 30, then 40 then 50 route. So beware.

The lanes on Romney Marsh are good, but i would advise learning them first. Many a Saxo in many a ditch.

The A259, Rye to Hastings and the general coast road is good, but always busy in the day and prone to nob heads at night.

[Paul 8v]

Bit worried about posting any favourite roads on here incase Huxley Pig decides to have a look

[Greenwich Ross]

furball330i said:

the road that goes through camber sands is pretty awesome, but they are wise to people enjoying the road and have unmarked cars there all the time...

+1

Shame you end up in Camber at the end though

[tloraine]

snowen250 said:

Alkham valley road is good, tis my route to work. But it is a nsl, then 50, then 40, then 30, then 40 then 50 route.

That is a good road. How local are you?