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FreshAL
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PostPosted: 14:01 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Urban corners Reply with quote

Yeah, we all know the countryside twisties are great, but are there any superb corners in the town/city near you?

There's a series of bends in town near me which are usually chock full of traffic, but late at night (if you catch the lights right, or just ignore them) it becomes a sharpish left up and over a bridge then a wonderful right hander, nearly a full 180°.

I hadn't realised how good this corner could be till I saw a post-haste courier fly round it scraping his panniers. I'm not mad enough to try it in traffic, so I came back later on one evening, and it's very fun. Mr. Green

Any good urban corners where you are?
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PostPosted: 14:04 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Goodmans yard north of the Tower.
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PostPosted: 14:04 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 14:15 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always find those curved motorway sliproads designed to slow cagers down bloody enticing.
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PostPosted: 14:16 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a relatively popular little "track" as it were with a few of the faster boys Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 14:17 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

coming off the A1, onto the A428, just down the road from my house

https://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=52.20334,-0.297757&spn=0.003873,0.006931&om=1
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PostPosted: 14:21 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

feef wrote:
coming off the A1, onto the A428, just down the road from my house

https://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=52.20334,-0.297757&spn=0.003873,0.006931&om=1


Is that the banked upwards spiral? or would be downwards if your coming off the A1 i imagine...?

If so i bloody love that place Laughing
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PostPosted: 14:28 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 14:34 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm in Milton keynes. It's all pretty straight roads and roundabouts. Fun for some, not so for others. Hard acelleration, hard braking, quick flicks through the roundabouts.

Mind you, Bradford city centre was "fun" to weave the bike through what with it's big sweeping multi lane roads and lots of ups and downs...

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PostPosted: 14:37 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 14:47 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://mc.multimap.com/cs/blon//X20/Y72/X2094Y724S5W500H300.gif

That ones nice and fun for getting your knee down and nearly any of the exits you take are nice straight run offs... with nice bends
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
NIce little streched roundabout, good when its not busy.

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PostPosted: 15:23 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

The yellow bit (sundown drive) used to be an ace run after dark, but they have filled it with traffic calming obsticals now, so the lines from corner to corner are screwed up Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 15:26 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

All chavs in this part of Essex will know about Festiva Leisure Park. Its on a two laned carriageway thats a couple of miles long and has 5 or 6 large roundabouts on it. Traffic lights are at either end (start or finish) and no speed cameras except the odd mobile.
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PostPosted: 16:10 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

The A666 in Bolton through to Darwen and Blackburn is a bit urban in places Thumbs Up

Other than that Moss Bank Way in Bolton can be a lot of fun even with the traffic there as there is ample room either side of the traffic to nip round at speed Smile
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PostPosted: 17:05 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just as you leave the big roundabout at Battersea Park heading south there is a really smooth s bend which you can take at a decent pace and it feels good when you do! Wink

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PostPosted: 17:28 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Totally offtopic but that was surreal. I looked at the map in Als post and thought "that looks familiar". Then I realised, I used to live on Fatherson road (just off that map). Used to be a cracking little Thai restaurant on the tow path along the Kennet.

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PostPosted: 17:46 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

vee wrote:
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Bizarre roundabout. I mean - why create something like that instead of one large roundabout?

Although it's pretty easy to navigate, once you work out whether it's quicker to go clockwise or anticlockwise to your exit (changes depending on traffic).

https://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=swindon&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&z=18&ll=51.562929,-1.771213&spn=0.002414,0.006738
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PostPosted: 17:53 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can tell drivers from swindon, they're pros on roundabouts.
Anybody from here ain't really bothered by it bar being on test, but everyone else goes WTF!!!!! Cool
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PostPosted: 18:08 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Potterow corner in Edinburgh is (in)famous. Especially hitting it uphill. A sharp, two lane left hander with DEEP ruts in it from all the buses going round. You have to hit it on the outside of the burm and it is like going round a wall of death. Come over the top of the burm and you are straight into an armco barrier, sideways.

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PostPosted: 18:12 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Re: Urban corners Reply with quote

FreshAL wrote:
There's a series of bends in town near me which are usually chock full of traffic...


I’ve been round that system in Reading a million times, but never when it’s been empty, I’ll have to give it a go.

Bit of a London cliché, but The Mall Arrow Constitution Hill Arrow Hyde Park Corner Arrow Park Lane Arrow Marble Arch Arrow Bayswater Road is a cracking ride when it’s quiet and the lights are on your side. Used to do it every night for six years and it just got better and better. Super sticky shellgrip on most of the corners and only one camera halfway up Park Lane.... not that I would ever have been going over 40mph, of course. Wink
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PostPosted: 18:20 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

vee wrote:
You can tell drivers from swindon, they're pros on roundabouts.
Anybody from here ain't really bothered by it bar being on test, but everyone else goes WTF!!!!! Cool



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PostPosted: 19:07 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Totally offtopic but that was surreal. I looked at the map in Als post and thought "that looks familiar". Then I realised, I used to live on Fatherson road (just off that map). Used to be a cracking little Thai restaurant on the tow path along the Kennet.

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Weyhey! The junction into Fatherson Rd is where I got knocked off. Restaurant is still there
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PostPosted: 20:16 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Tarmacsurfer wrote:
Totally offtopic but that was surreal. I looked at the map in Als post and thought "that looks familiar". Then I realised, I used to live on Fatherson road (just off that map). Used to be a cracking little Thai restaurant on the tow path along the Kennet.

/hijack off


Weyhey! The junction into Fatherson Rd is where I got knocked off. Restaurant is still there
https://www.bensthai.co.uk/

Love it, should be used automatically in case of it happening Laughing
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PostPosted: 21:29 - 29 Aug 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Road from Mablethorpe -> Louth (think it's the B1200) is basically a farm track and that's got some awesome bends.

Ditches either side if you run off. Thumbs Up
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