I survived the Cat and Fiddle Road!!

[Kris]

[karen_moomin]

[tony532]

nice one.

cant understand the weekend bikers that go up and down it all day long though


like someone said before it has a reputation as a dangerous road partly because of the born again weekend power rangers binning brand new r1's on there and killing themselves on the balcony e.t.c

go as slow as you like on there and dont let any car driver put you off when going round one of the bends

dont take in the views either mate. that was my mistake when i had just started biking


have to go on some better roads if everyone is still going out on saturday

[Kris]

[tony532]

there are a couple of longish straights

i think the long straight he means is just past the pub going to buxton where it goes to a 60.


usualy a high speed pursuit car waiting on the road on the left


a very overated road though


but as karen said it scares the pants off you the first time you ride on it. probably because of the statistics attached to it


rode down it the other week after coming back from buxton and saw a recently binned r1 ! on the balcony

[Kickstart]

[Nighteyes]

[divuk83]

[EuropeanNC30R...]

[Flip]

How long are you home for Maurice?

[Kickstart]

[EuropeanNC30R...]

Nice one keith

I'm home until mid-July some time, then I'm off to sunny Surrey.

[Mantzy]

Is that the road towards Buxton from Macclesfield by Man Tor or whatever its called? And there's a pub at the top (highest pub in UK i think) and always has bikers on it and people para and hanggliding off it?

Used to live in Macclesfield and used to go Buxton a few times a year.

Edited to say now i've read the whole post then my questions been answered already. I'll agree it's a pretty scary road even in a car. Used to see lots of bikes on the balcony. Never saw any coppers though.
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[McJamweasel]

Yes, thats the one. The pub is the Cat and Fiddle.
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[Mantzy]

Nice one Karen for making it in one piece. I'd like to do it one day.

New Zealands roads are very similar to the Cat & Fiddle with tight blind turns and great views. Done it by car but bike would be something special. Scary but fun.
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[mr.z]

The thing with this road is bends look allot tamer than they are, if underestimate it that little bit too much then your in trouble... which i suspect some have done, thinkin they can go pritty fast only to realise the bend is tightening any they have now way of adjusting their line to suit... not that thats any different to allot of other roads... i could show you roads around derby that would make harderned trackday aces poo themselfs.
Best roads ive been on were in the lakes though, shame its 200miles away for me
Like i said its allot less fun when its snowing/gale force winds/peeing it down, comeing from buxton it might be a loveley spring day, closer you get the worse it will get.. but its still better than going through stoke and then a horrible ride up the m6
damn i want to go for a ride now
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[Shaun]

Whats wrong with Stoke exactly?

[mr.z]

[iCraig]

I was in stoke/Newcastle-U-Lyme the other day looking for DK Motorcycles.

What a dull place it is, plus bouncing down the M6 at 95MPH on a GS500E isnt good, LOL

Anyone know where DK is at all?

[Shaun]

Yes, 2 minutes from my house!

[iCraig]

[JonB]

I live too far from there but from the replies it seems pretty sketchy. A bad road down here has got to be at the bottom off Porlock Hill near Minehead Somerset on the A39.
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[Nighteyes]

[Flip]

[Shaun]

From junction 16, assuming you came from the north go left at the roundabout, get off the A500 at the second exit and go right on the big roundabout onto the A34 towards newcastle town centre. Keep on the A34 and go straight over the next roundabout, through a set of lights and over the next roundabout which has a McDonalds on it, through 2 sets of lights and straight over another roundabout. You will see a row of shops on the right hand side of the road, one being cissbury leathers, as you pass these shops you will go through 2 small sets of lights for pedestrians. Not far down the road you will come to another set of lights, used for allowing traffic out from the road on your left. Make sure you are in the right hand lane just before these lights as a couple of hundred yards down the road you will have to turn around just before a small set of traffic lights to head back up the other way, when you get back to the big set of traffic lights DK is right on them on your left, if its a saturday there should be plenty of bikes around going in and out of there!