As the title says what is your favourite road I want to do a lot of riding this year and hunt out Some cracking roads so I need your help I live in Surrey so for me it's got to be the A272 Any one who rides it knows why So come on chaps what's yours
A6 Bakewell to Buxton (Derbyshire), and A57 Snake pass Ladybower to Glossop to name a couple of my faves.
Also love the 272 for a local ish ride. Billingshurst to petworth traffic free is amazing.... Had a blast through there Monday Abroad has to be the route napoleon and the ring.... But done a few which are amazing, the a38 south of the ring (have to check for sure) is the best unknown ive done, was incredible and blew the Black Forest b500 out the water.... Can't wait to go back in June!! Edit - just checked - was the a48 Edit 2 - the whole of the west coast of Scotland (and glencoe etc) rivals anything in Europe if the sun is shining! Too bloody many to pick a favourite...
Close to home: Skipton to Hawes via Ribbledhead, classic tarmac, B6255 & B6479 Little bit further: Bowes to Alston on the B6277, stunning in the dry. Further away: Hereford to Abergavenny on the A465, the only road I've ever been t-pacced on by the Heddlu! Best ever...... The B500 from Baden Baden to Freudenstadt, terrifyingly good.check it on google maps if you've never been, a full days ride from Zeebrugge but well worth it. And a great little town at the end with a pub/brewery in the square that turns into the only nightclub for miles at 9pm, and has everyone from the town in it, from 18 to 80. Although with Jimbo dissing it I may have to seek out the 48 to see.
Imaging the b500 but four times longer in the woods with no f*cker on it!! Oh and with better Tarmac... The b500 is incredible but a bit too busy and too many police for my liking, but the 48 blew us away, was as good as my 1st time on the napoleon I promise you, and the perfect link from the ring to Black Forest... Dual carriageway?? Goes from neustadt to bad kreuznach.... Full on twistie heaven!
Really hard to select one - The Supersonic Speedway from Spean Bridge to Eilean Donan Castle is stunning - or the road to Ullapool from there. Spean Bridge, Highland, UK to Eilean Donan Castle - Google Maps The N260 in Spain, or the road from Sort to Vehaila via the ski resort - lovely fast sweepers, almost no traffic and fantastic visibility Sort, Lleida, Spain to Av. Pas d'Arro - Google Maps Plenty in Germany as road surfaces are also really good - would like to spend a week on the roads round the ring and down and back up the Black Forrest -
Fantastic to know jimbo! We can use the b500 from the ring to Baden Baden, then on the way back, the a48. Thx!
Applecross pass (bealach na ba), route through Glen Coe. I've a bad memory for road names/routes as I'm usually content to follow others.
We did a road through the Austrian mountains, 100 miles of switchbacks, long sweepers, straights, undulations...the lot. I'll try and find the road using the videos I took... It was outstanding. Also, the Gotthard pass. Fantastic. Think Glencoe with loads more twisties and a surface to die for.
Dual carriageway?? Goes from neustadt to bad kreuznach.... Full on twistie heaven! That explains it, I was looking at this 48 just south of Nurburg:
The A272 is the best road around here but it's still shit. I hardly ever ride in this country now. I think mine are the N260 in Northern Spain. Completely amazing in every way. And...the D994 from Nyons to Serres in Provence. The fastest most scarey road ever.
Si we came from south if the b500 (hour or so) done that to Baden Baden then the 48 to the ring in a day. Was pretty full on but easily doable in a day. If you havent done it - Most people think the b500 is huge but in reality you can ride it in a morning... here you go Si - this is pretty much what we done in a day.... http://goo.gl/maps/9UPgO
The B1225 Caistor to Horncastle AKA Bomb Alley good stretch of road that gets better nearer to Horncastle. Also the B1202 Market Rasen to Bardney then onto the B1190 Bardney to Horncastle.
Jimbo, are travelling from nurburg to Baden Baden one day, so it's possible to use the A48, then next day Baden Baden to Lucerne, so we can use the B500?
we done the route i put up in a day yeah mate, finished at 9pm but we had to change tyres in the morning and didnt get going till lunch time. with a small group, decent pace and not coffee stopping every fuel stop i'd say you could do the 48, 500 then onto lucerne in a day (a long day but i know you dont mind big miles) no probs... its only another 70 miles from the bottom of the 500. if you split it into 2 days, you'll breeze it...
