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Airsnark
18-10-11, 06:21 PM
so whats your favorite corner?
http://forums.sv650.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=9947&stc=1&d=1319135765
maviczap
18-10-11, 06:23 PM
Any one of these
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Dfs1yhhwatc/Tm4Y0PbVsZI/AAAAAAAAAhw/OhOIjlSOHpQ/s512/046.JPG
andrewsmith
18-10-11, 06:39 PM
any on this road (here comes the wind ups!)
http://i1034.photobucket.com/albums/a426/andrewsmith1708/21st%20August%202011/S7304258.jpg
http://i1034.photobucket.com/albums/a426/andrewsmith1708/21st%20August%202011/S7304251.jpg
Bluepete
18-10-11, 06:42 PM
Really?
Any corner?
What about...
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/CrashyMcgee.jpg
Pete ;)
andrewsmith
18-10-11, 06:47 PM
:smt098:smt098
I knew one of you would say that!!
Aint yours about 2 miles South of High Force B6277?
I know one you and sv4me liked was the A68 between Hass and Bryness
Bluepete
18-10-11, 07:06 PM
Aint yours about 2 miles South of High Force B6277?
Do you mean where both of us had huge slides on a poor road and STILL managed to ride on, unscathed?
Yeah. I love that corner. I nearly injested the Tiger through my anus!
Pete ;)
andrewsmith
18-10-11, 07:10 PM
touche
All meant in good fun!
Quiff Wichard
18-10-11, 07:14 PM
favourite corner?
Boots
mister c
20-10-11, 02:48 PM
This is mine. I travel it twice a day 5 or 6 days a week & love it.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/croozenooze/Untitled.jpg
Dave20046
20-10-11, 03:24 PM
so whats your favorite corner?
Can you see right down the junctions as you approach?
That'd be my concern with it from the photo, but can't really tell.
Can't say I have particularly favourite corner, I have a few favourite 'stretches'. I can thing of a few really good corners but you have to ride out of your way on crap roads to get to them and it kind of takes away the fun :(
BBadger
20-10-11, 04:06 PM
Dont have a picture but right opposite hamptoncourt station down to the river...may only be a 30 but when its clear you can do abit more.
full lean left full lean right then full lean left and a straight to open it up onto before a nice left with a drop.
Airsnark
20-10-11, 04:06 PM
ah an s bend gotta love em
Airsnark
20-10-11, 04:08 PM
Can you see right down the junctions as you approach?
That'd be my concern with it from the photo, but can't really tell.
Can't say I have particularly favourite corner, I have a few favourite 'stretches'. I can thing of a few really good corners but you have to ride out of your way on crap roads to get to them and it kind of takes away the fun :(
ye u can see the junctions fine, but iv never seen a car exiting or entering that road :D
Dave20046
20-10-11, 04:10 PM
ye u can see the junctions fine, but iv never seen a car exiting or entering that road :D
Nice 8) :riding:
this:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=56.612987,-3.3395&spn=0.034621,0.077162&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=6
as you can keep the gas on and just lean and lean and lean. always brings a smile to my face.
+1 Agreed with Andrewsmith :0)
melmerby to Hartside... then over to Alston :0) grins by the mile....
Has to be this (http://g.co/maps/ahmbk) for me at Mallory. Kneedown at 110 (ish, I only had the balls to look at the clocks once :o) for just over 1/3 of a mile. Doesn't get any better than that :D
andrewsmith
20-10-11, 07:35 PM
+1 Agreed with Andrewsmith :0)
melmerby to Hartside... then over to Alston :0) grins by the mile....
Next question
Tyne or Wear Valley?
this:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=56.612987,-3.3395&spn=0.034621,0.077162&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=6
as you can keep the gas on and just lean and lean and lean. always brings a smile to my face.
+1 with this.
The fact that its down a steep hill as well adds to the excitement.
carelesschucca
20-10-11, 09:41 PM
ARGH!!! This is so difficult and its not fair. So many great corners for so many different reasons. Picking one is causing me real issues...
carelesschucca
20-10-11, 09:46 PM
Can I pick this one, bit of a cheat but I can't remember not grinning going round it!!!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Aberfoyle,+Stirling&hl=en&ll=56.178528,-4.385219&spn=0.000048,0.05476&sll=56.214723,-4.394188&sspn=0.069875,0.21904&vpsrc=0&hnear=Aberfoyle,+Stirling,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=56.178621,-4.384829&panoid=Yk5BRKco_49Q68rEKXeycg&cbp=12,64.73,,0,-3.61
littleoldman2
21-10-11, 12:07 AM
this:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=56.612987,-3.3395&spn=0.034621,0.077162&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=6
as you can keep the gas on and just lean and lean and lean. always brings a smile to my face.
Wonderful rode that when I stayed for a long weekend at the campsite at Faskally near Pitlochry
Luckypants
21-10-11, 08:19 AM
Can I pick this one, bit of a cheat but I can't remember not grinning going round it!!!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Aberfoyle,+Stirling&hl=en&ll=56.178528,-4.385219&spn=0.000048,0.05476&sll=56.214723,-4.394188&sspn=0.069875,0.21904&vpsrc=0&hnear=Aberfoyle,+Stirling,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=56.178621,-4.384829&panoid=Yk5BRKco_49Q68rEKXeycg&cbp=12,64.73,,0,-3.61
:D :thumbsup:
mister c
21-10-11, 01:05 PM
Has to be this (http://g.co/maps/ahmbk) for me at Mallory. Kneedown at 110 (ish, I only had the balls to look at the clocks once :o) for just over 1/3 of a mile. Doesn't get any better than that :D
:thumbsup: I only did Mallory once, but thought I had Gerrards nailed on my last session out on my FZR400 until one of the No limits girls passed me on the outside like I'd stopped. I felt about 2 inches tall lol.
This entire section of road...
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=A483&daddr=Dolfor+Rd%2FA483&hl=en&ll=52.376857,-3.385849&spn=0.303061,0.878906&sll=52.363441,-3.13591&sspn=0.301476,0.878906&geocode=FX7AHQMdHBfN_w%3BFfQjIQMdtFvN_w&vpsrc=6&mra=me&mrsp=1,0&sz=11&t=m&z=11
Cloesly followed by a road in north wales that I can't remember... I just remember following bluepete, or being followed by bluepete... it was super twisty and there was water on the left at about roads level. A bit of a vague description I know.
Next question
Tyne or Wear Valley?
Both and the Middleton in teesdale :0)
Specialone
21-10-11, 05:51 PM
Pretty much all of this whole area (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=43.808765,6.767578&spn=0.534167,1.448822&t=m&z=10&vpsrc=6)
Or a local one to me, not technical at all but if you can get on it without a car in front you can carry some good speed into it.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=nec&hl=en&ll=52.466416,-1.711099&spn=0.000013,0.011319&sll=43.808765,6.767578&sspn=0.534167,1.448822&vpsrc=6&hq=nec&radius=15000&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.466078,-1.711634&panoid=bzEOpogl58le7ABSEAH4Jw&cbp=12,352.24,,0,-0.85
Or the A483 as G mentioned, very good road.
Brettus
22-10-11, 11:00 AM
Mine is quite simple somehow, there are a lot of corners I like but my favourite seems to be one that is accessible to me, that I can ride whenever I like. My route to work can be made to include this one.
http://www.brettnet.co.uk/temp/FavouriteCorner.jpg
Obviously not when it has traffic on it like this but that isn't very often in all honesty, for a main road is doesn't get that much and is a nice high speed corner with a nice elevation change and mostly open view.
Oops, sorry about the res, my screen is a tad high def ;)
Not really a fair comparison, but this is the valley between the Furkapass and Grimselpass in Switzerland which I rode this summer on the way back from holiday in Italy. The Alps really are stunning, and yes the road is just a fabulous as it looks.
Note some of the hairpins, like the one in the foreground, are built on stilts, just to add to the experience!
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh268/Hi-vis/IMG_4824rotSmall.jpg
I have to say this is my current fave corner:
Link (http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.583181,-2.994285&spn=0.000002,0.001717&t=h&z=20&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=51.583141,-2.993935&panoid=dKTqziUZiUfMJ-8rTFH1gA&cbp=12,310.04,,0,12.31)
clearly not a good corner but if you get the speed just right you get some nice air time as you crest the hill next to the first junction.
and it's on my daily ride to work.
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