I Got snapped on the Cat on Saturday...

[Ratty]

.. by an SV riding member on another forum. Here are the photo's he snapped of thier rideout's flypast (which I gate-crashed). They were a great bunch.

http://themotorbikeforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=10491&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Ratty

[MR UKI (1)]

Cool pics there mate, you done well gate crashing them :)

[Ratty]

I was talking to the guy up at the Cat. I saw him standing by the road when I was on my way down and stopped thinking he had a problem. He told me what he was up to so I carried on down then did another run up.:D

Ratty

[plowsie]

Nice style!

[G]

Spotted loads of SV's up their on saturday and all throughout derbyshire, was going to do a eyeball post but there was that may I couldnt remember them all lol.

[kwak zzr]

the "cat" i love that road :)

[G]

the "cat" i love that road :)

If you love the 'cat' .....you need to try the A54 which runs along side it to the south, just as nice but with next to no traffic.

Thats the route i did at the weekend with hockeynut.

If you fancy it give me a shout i will come along.

[kwak zzr]

wow yea! next time i'm up that way i'll drop u a pm, trouble is the cat is about 90miles from my house so its a bit of a run just to get there.

[Lozzo]

If you love the 'cat' .....you need to try the A54 which runs along side it to the south, just as nice but with next to no traffic.


The A54 towards Congleton from the Cat is wild, has to be one of the most 3 dimensional roads I have ever ridden. The first time I did it I turned round and did it again four times - I was on a borrowed 1200 Bandit and the owner was sitting there at the Cat junction regretting lending me the bike because he was bored waiting for me to finally stop.

[G]

The A54 towards Congleton from the Cat is wild, has to be one of the most 3 dimensional roads I have ever ridden. The first time I did it I turned round and did it again four times

Yeah its a brilliant stretch of road, I had only ever driven it until the weekend. I had been waiting so long for the right weather to ride it.

The end near Congleton under the trees before the crossroads at Bosley was abit gravely inbetween the car tyre lines, I had abit of a moment lol....thats what makes it so good though, such a diverse road its got everything.

Its good to do it as a loop A537 to Macclesfield, then the boring bit of A523 and back along the A54 towards the start of the A537 at buxton. Only downside to doing it like that is the road from the Bosley crossroad to Congleton is dam nice aswell.

[Lozzo]

My favourite bit is the hairpin outside the pub, I watched a mate on his R6 save a lowside with his knee there, the front hit a lump of sheep-**** - the one and only time I've ever seen that done on the road.

[G]

Yeah that part is as bum twitcher if your going down the hill, up hill isnt as bad.

Near the buxton end there is so many dips and bumps that if your going much over the national speed limit you will get air time :-#, only ever happened in my car though, didnt fancy doing that stretch quick on the bike lol

[sinbad]

Yeah that part is as bum twitcher if your going down the hill, up hill isnt as bad.

Near the buxton end there is so many dips and bumps that if your going much over the national speed limit you will get air time :-#, only ever happened in my car though, didnt fancy doing that stretch quick on the bike lol

Hah yeah it's a fascinating piece of road but not one to go hell for leather all the way along really :)

[Lozzo]

Hah yeah it's a fascinating piece of road but not one to go hell for leather all the way along really :)

You're kidding, aren't you? Hooning up and down the A54 in the company of well ridden R6 is one of the highlights of my motorcycling career.

[Tomcat]

Hah yeah it's a fascinating piece of road but not one to go hell for leather all the way along really :)

I have to say it is on them bumpy bits that you really feel the sv crying :( Tis easier to ride on the cbr , sorry if that upsets any of you, the sv will always be in my heart ......but ......





nice pics by the way, like the comment some guy makes about the sv :)

[Lozzo]

Yeah that part is as bum twitcher if your going down the hill, up hill isnt as bad.

Near the buxton end there is so many dips and bumps that if your going much over the national speed limit you will get air time :-#, only ever happened in my car though, didnt fancy doing that stretch quick on the bike lol

The air-time is what makes it fun - front wheel or both wheels airborne over a blind crest knowing there's a 90 deg bend 50 yards over the other side is what makes it exciting.

[suzsv650]

LMAO at that R6 rider on the wrong side of the road and not leaning!

You did well \\:D/


i ride my r6 proply!

[sinbad]

You're kidding, aren't you? Hooning up and down the A54 in the company of well ridden R6 is one of the highlights of my motorcycling career.

Too many blind crests and dozy sheep for my liking. Some of it's alright, but the stretch from the hairpin pub up to the junction at the top is a bit deadly.

[plowsie]

LMAO at that R6 rider on the wrong side of the road and not leaning!

You did well \\:D/


i ride my r6 proply!
You mean the guy on the fazer i think it is? I would be a bit like that if a Busa in race colours and aftermarket cans just busa'd under me into a corner lol.

[MR UKI (1)]

Oooh, the hairpin bit is great, especially coming down to it when you see the road going up the otherside of the valley. Did that bit myself on Saturday afternoon on the way home from the Cat. :D

[xXBADGERXx]

I like the fact that your pretty much the only one with a knee on the deck or damn close to it . 10 for stylin it up there man :D

[G]

The air-time is what makes it fun - front wheel or both wheels airborne over a blind crest knowing there's a 90 deg bend 50 yards over the other side is what makes it exciting.

Tomcat summed it up.....not fun on standard sv suspension lol....and even more so on one your trying to sell lol

[Ratty]

I like the fact that your pretty much the only one with a knee on the deck or damn close to it . 10 for stylin it up there man :D

Cheers for that fella. I don't wear knee sliders because of my combination or didy legs and clunky old hips, I can't get my knee down. The piccy suprised me by how close it was.

Alan

[xXBADGERXx]

Well I reckon your in the realms of scraping a slider there feller , Last time I got my knee down was on a TZR 125 wearing jeans , never forget the jeans just vaguely skimming the corner for a gnats whisker and the burning sensation as the skin on my knee tightened up .... never did it again :D

[suzsv650]

You mean the guy on the fazer i think it is? I would be a bit like that if a Busa in race colours and aftermarket cans just busa'd under me into a corner lol.


nope defo the black poweranger R6 why do people buy fast bikes and not ride them propperly:confused:

[G]

Dude it may have been his first time up there, and even then once you have done it a few times some people just go up there for a nice relaxing ride...this powerranger crap and abuse of nice bikes is getting as tedious as the IAM bashing

[_Stretchie_]

Hmm, the Cat N Fiddle road.. Fantastico. Not so nice when the rain is flying at you sideways. El Saxo and I did it coming from Lincolnshire to Lancashire at the end of September last year. We had intercoms on and kept getting some computers geeks having conversations on the same band then telling us off for using their channel and to change channel's NOW!!!

Cracking road. We also went to Matlock Bath for fish and chips on the way, what a strange 'sea side town' ha haa

Good pics there

[Luckypants]

If you love the 'cat' .....you need to try the A54 which runs along side it to the south, just as nice but with next to no traffic.

Thats the route i did at the weekend with hockeynut.

If you fancy it give me a shout i will come along.

wow yea! next time i'm up that way i'll drop u a pm, trouble is the cat is about 90miles from my house so its a bit of a run just to get there.

The A54 towards Congleton from the Cat is wild, has to be one of the most 3 dimensional roads I have ever ridden. The first time I did it I turned round and did it again four times - I was on a borrowed 1200 Bandit and the owner was sitting there at the Cat junction regretting lending me the bike because he was bored waiting for me to finally stop.

Me Too!! I'll come!! Please mister!