Where is Biker Heaven?

What does Biker Heaven mean ? Lessee...
1 - Must be near to as many major racetracks as possible - in the UK that would be Brands, Silverstone, Donington, Oulton, Cadwell, Mallory, Snetterton...
2 - Nearish to London (or a major city) for work - say an hour away- and near to a station for the Mrs
3- Near to some nice roads
4 - Decent place to live - ie not Warrington where Swellhead and his mates run riot every night, beating up ladies cos they refused to give him a fag
5 - Decent property prices - i know this is hard within the hour to London circle, but where a few bedrooms, a garden and a garage for £200kish is possible

Course, Biker Heaven isnt necesarily in the UK, i guess so long as you can change the names of the tracks, the rest could apply in Italy, Spain, France or USA.?

SO where is it - im looking at Stamford, sort of Northants way, but whether that would qualify as "heaven" is ....debatable ? Is this the area the org er who listed all the tracks being 1hr, 1.5 hrs, 2 hrs away lives?

Watford ?

Mid-Bedfordshire, right where I live. Got great twisty roads on my doorstep, it's 5 miles from the M1 and 9 miles from the A1 so major road links are to hand, it's on a rail mainline into London, or you can get into the heart of the West End by bike in less than an hour.

Cadwell is 2 1/2 hours away, Silverstone 35 minutes, Brands 1 1/2 hours, Oulton 3 hours, Mallory 1 hour, Donington 1 1/2 hours, Rockingham 45 minutes. There's a few local MX clubs, and also a 'pay as you go' MX track to go playing on if you don't race about 20 minutes from here.

Housing is in the affordable bracket, a decent 3 bed semi with garage is still under 180K

Lets talk at Sliverstone Lozzo !

Anyone beat that ? Im guessing Pedro Pedroso will give it the Viva Espana - and lets face it - everyone in London who suffered like me in the rain and traffic this rush hour - they do have the weather !

[Richie]

Originally Posted by pete m

What does Biker Heaven mean ? Lessee...
1 - Must be near to as many major racetracks as possible - in the UK that would be Brands, Silverstone, Donington, Oulton, Cadwell, Mallory, Snetterton...
2 - Nearish to London (or a major city) for work - say an hour away- and near to a station for the Mrs
3- Near to some nice roads
4 - Decent place to live - ie not Warrington where Swellhead and his mates run riot every night, beating up ladies cos they refused to give him a fag
5 - Decent property prices - i know this is hard within the hour to London circle, but where a few bedrooms, a garden and a garage for ?200kish is possible

Course, Biker Heaven isnt necesarily in the UK, i guess so long as you can change the names of the tracks, the rest could apply in Italy, Spain, France or USA.?

SO where is it - im looking at Stamford, sort of Northants way, but whether that would qualify as "heaven" is ....debatable ? Is this the area the org er who listed all the tracks being 1hr, 1.5 hrs, 2 hrs away lives?

Watford ?

ADD a POLL...


i'd vote number 3

[STRAMASHER]

Biking Heaven? "The South" "Racetracks"


Spain, N260 start to finish.



Or Scotland. Just about any of it. Just quit bringing that bad weather up with you?! Much faster and longer than any racetrack.

[Lissa]

Rugby

When I first met Pete he was living in Surrey. When he moved up here he couldn't believe the roads were so good and so quiet.

We're a couple of miles from Junction 1 of the M1, the M45 and M6 are no more than 10 mins away. We have Mallory and Silverstone almost on our doorstep, and Rugby is on the main line route for both north and south train-wise.

Best of all though, a couple of minutes out of Rugby in any direction and you're on great roads

[rictus01]

perhaps I see this in a slightly different way, it isn't any one place, but a feeling, a good run down the old kent rd threw rush hour traffic, a sunny sunday in june out on the back roads of surrey, a crisp bright morning blast up the motorway in december, and alpine switch back on holiday, going over a dune on that hire bike, blasting threw a long tunnel? catch my drift here


OK it's just me then

Cheers Mark.

Where is biker heaven - hmmm - just the other side of the car/tree/barrier that hits you.


But on a lighter note - I'm with Mark - heaven's in my head...



... along with a few other strange things.

scotland but only once global warming arrives cos its so cold and wet just now

Im 1 hour from knockhill, 10 min from A82 (one of best biking roads in scotland)

my flat is going on market next week, 2 bed flat with converted loft under £80k

[G]

Midlands is fairly ok.

Where I live......

Cadwell - 1hr 20mins
Croft - 1hr 50mins
Silverstone - 1hr 40mins
Donnington - 30mins
Mallory Park - 40mins
Darley Moor - 45mins

Derbyshire Dales - 20 mins
Pennines - 40mins
Cat & Fiddle - 40mins
North Wales - 1hr 15mins

1hr by train to london

1hr 40mins to stanmore the another 20mins to central london

Reasonable housing prices, 3 storey, 4 bed Townhouse, front and rear garden, Garage, quite culdesac, £200k new build,

Its not bad at all in the midlands, everything is close by.