Where`s your favourite bend or sequence of corners?
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Here, both ways, on my commute:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blandford+Forum+...
70-80 deg bend right, hump bridge, 70-80 deg bend left, if you don't want to click the link.
Driven it most days since 2002 and it still makes me giggle and think of Scalextric.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blandford+Forum+...
70-80 deg bend right, hump bridge, 70-80 deg bend left, if you don't want to click the link.
Driven it most days since 2002 and it still makes me giggle and think of Scalextric.
Johnnytheboy said:
Here, both ways, on my commute:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blandford+Forum+...
70-80 deg bend right, hump bridge, 70-80 deg bend left, if you don't want to click the link.
Driven it most days since 2002 and it still makes me giggle and think of Scalextric.
Where is that please? Tarrant Valley?https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blandford+Forum+...
70-80 deg bend right, hump bridge, 70-80 deg bend left, if you don't want to click the link.
Driven it most days since 2002 and it still makes me giggle and think of Scalextric.
I loved the Mickleham Bends on the A24 between Leatherhead and Dorking, but now the Southbound carriageway is reduced to one lane and has a 50mph speed limit and cameras it is just "meh".
The road sign at the beginning allegedly inspired 10CC to come up with "Deceptive Bends".
Whether that is true or not I used to love ragging RD Yamahas along that stretch in the late 70s to go to Box Hill on a Sunday morning and watch the lunacy while sitting on the bank - happy days!
The road sign at the beginning allegedly inspired 10CC to come up with "Deceptive Bends".
Whether that is true or not I used to love ragging RD Yamahas along that stretch in the late 70s to go to Box Hill on a Sunday morning and watch the lunacy while sitting on the bank - happy days!
I love it too. But you might already have guessed that....
Not only is it sublime to drive , it is also wonderful to watch racing from . I thought I was a hero the first time I scraped in at 100mph in my R400 . So a bit of a shock to chat to one of the leading Clubman racers and learn that his data logging showed his slicks and wings Mallock entering at 134mph ...
Not only is it sublime to drive , it is also wonderful to watch racing from . I thought I was a hero the first time I scraped in at 100mph in my R400 . So a bit of a shock to chat to one of the leading Clubman racers and learn that his data logging showed his slicks and wings Mallock entering at 134mph ...
Edited by coppice on Wednesday 27th May 08:22
brisel said:
So many good roads.
Some ace ones from Bardney to Baumber and north onto the B1225 since you mention that part of Lincolnshire.
+1Some ace ones from Bardney to Baumber and north onto the B1225 since you mention that part of Lincolnshire.
A couple of sequences at opposite ends of the UK
Jury's Gap. https://goo.gl/maps/q9bUCi6SsetVbPqK9
A835. https://goo.gl/maps/TTXAPt2NZfBWMYh87
coppice said:
I love it too. But you might already have guessed that....
Not only is it sublime to drive , it is also wonderful to watch racing from . I thought I was a hero the first time I scraped in at 100mph in my R400 . So a bit of a shock to chat to one of the leading Clubman racers and learn that his data logging showed his slicks and wings Mallock entering at 134mph ...
Not only is it sublime to drive , it is also wonderful to watch racing from . I thought I was a hero the first time I scraped in at 100mph in my R400 . So a bit of a shock to chat to one of the leading Clubman racers and learn that his data logging showed his slicks and wings Mallock entering at 134mph ...
Edited by coppice on Wednesday 27th May 08:22
Always someone faster. Years back one lad was moaning and groaning about the fueling and the thing wouldn't drive out of corners. We showed him the throttle trace and corner speeds of the two other guys. Always liked the data, easy to look at almost impossible to master.
Anyway it stopped the moans.
These esses on the B3223 north of Simonsbath.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/B3223/@51.195974...
Or this "chicane" on the A396, on the way to Exmoor.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/B3223/@51.003215...
Both brilliant roads, when driven at the right time!
https://www.google.com/maps/place/B3223/@51.195974...
Or this "chicane" on the A396, on the way to Exmoor.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/B3223/@51.003215...
Both brilliant roads, when driven at the right time!
Zig Zag Hill, North Dorset. Perhaps not my favourite but it's definitely up there. I tend to drive it most days.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9870558,-2.1554483...
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9870558,-2.1554483...
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