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Mr Nice Guy
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PostPosted: 22:47 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: types of road you hate? Reply with quote

Is there any particular type of road you hate? I don't mean roads in specific.

Myself, I just lose all bottle on steep downhill twisties... you could probably ride a bicycle down faster than me Embarassed

Whereas I absolutely love uphill twisties Very Happy
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PostPosted: 22:50 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

i hate motorways and duel carrage ways i ride miles out my way just to avoid the boredom
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

trunk roads, the A9 in particular.
Last time i was on it i felt like breaking something and phoning the recovery company just to take me home
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hate roads made out of fresh black tarmac. I have an aversion to anything shiny (as it's normally slippery) and I ride slower than I should on it because my brain thinks it's slippery even when dry, when it's probably not.
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Multilane one way roads in cities, where you need eyes in your arse and on each elbow. Where you pretty much have to put your brain in your topbox and just go for it.
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PostPosted: 22:59 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Really narrow single-track country lanes where all the bends have high hedges so you can't see if anything is coming the other way.
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PostPosted: 23:00 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just hate bumpy roads, with pot holes and patched up bits of tarmac etc.. esp the ones where they have the long bit of patch work that goes on for about 20metres, where a pipe was laid down.
A road that I really hate is New Kent road/A201, east bound, around where the BP/M&S petrol station is. The road there is awful.
also, hate roads that have been dug in and made bumpy, or have dips in them, caused by buses. Very noticeable around bus stops.
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PostPosted: 23:01 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Motorways, and any road that has salt on it.
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PostPosted: 23:04 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

babyyam wrote:
Really narrow single-track country lanes where all the bends have high hedges so you can't see if anything is coming the other way.


That and any wet road. Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:11 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Motorways and city riding. Anything else I like, from trails/single track to A road hooning.
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PostPosted: 23:20 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Corners down hill with an 'iffy' camber. When it has just pelted down, the roads are very wet and you have to do a tight corner up/down hill.

Going downhill twisties isn't very nice either.
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PostPosted: 23:24 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

long stripes of overbanding, making the front feel vague Thumbs Down

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PostPosted: 23:26 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Going downhill twisties isn't very nice either.


Same, I dont really like downhill twisties - Laguna Seca freaks me out when you see the GP guys to a god like flick down it Shocked w

Really wet roads are find but i don't like it when the rain has just sprinkled on and brought all the shit up but not washed it off.
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 17 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

babyyam wrote:
Really narrow single-track country lanes where all the bends have high hedges so you can't see if anything is coming the other way.


ride them at night on a small bike, excellent fun where you gotta learn the lane to make the most of it and all you do is watch for headlights (and pigs/cows/sheep Laughing )

when i first left school and got me moped (Puch VZ50) there used to be 4 of us that raced in single track lanes like that Mr. Green

my personal dislike is long straightish roads like motorways unless i gotta get somewhere in a rush
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PostPosted: 00:03 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any off camber steep uphill bends (especially lefts). Theres one in particular near me where i've grounded the fairing a few times with only modest lean and almost come off as the back end kicks out.
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PostPosted: 00:06 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm with Babyam on this but would like to add a further twist:

Hedge/trees one side and a rather nasty drop the other side with the road being too small to pass anything big. Kinda like a fair few roads round Wales.....

Also I hate old, forgotten about B roads with a rather poor surface.
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PostPosted: 00:11 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anything straight and boring I avoid, everything else is game.
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PostPosted: 00:20 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Re: types of road you hate? Reply with quote

Mr Nice Guy wrote:
Is there any particular type of road you hate? I don't mean roads in specific.

Myself, I just lose all bottle on steep downhill twisties... you could probably ride a bicycle down faster than me Embarassed

Whereas I absolutely love uphill twisties Very Happy


Downhill twisties ARE uphill twisties on your way home so it's not the road you hate. Laughing

Know what you mean though. I go about 20% faster uphill. If I do come off, I will come to a halt quicker Thumbs Up Confused
Even as a kid I hated downhill on bicycle. I am such a pussy.
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PostPosted: 00:38 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wet roads, its so hard to have fun on them without full wets fitted, you can have some real fun on them, as much as a dry road, but its so hard to gradually push and push, then it all gets spoiled by shite on the roadsurface which puts you back to the beginning again.
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PostPosted: 01:00 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

UrbanRacer wrote:
trunk roads, the A9 in particular.
Last time i was on it i felt like breaking something and phoning the recovery company just to take me home


Bang on the nail. The A9 is the work of the Devil and sucks your soul out through your arsehole.

I have it on good authority that the A9 was designed in an era where they decided that accidents were happening during overtakes. Therefore they would build a road you can't overtake on. It is full of carefully engineered corners specifically shaped so you can't quite see far enough ahead to safely overtake. Anywhere they couldn't fit in such a corner, they put in a stand of trees to block your view.

It is a road that drives you to frustration. You can't make progress at anything less than 100mph if you want to be able to pass. So it's sit in a queue behind a flat-cap wearing fiesta driver doing 50mph or risk your licence by going fast enough to safely pass.

If the Scottish government makes good its pledge to dual the A9, they will garauntee themselves a second term in office.

The A75 from Dumfries to Stranraer was designed by the same person and shares similar properties.

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EDIT: Oh, and I know of at least two people who HAVE deliberately engineered a breakdown to avoid having to drive along the A9.
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PostPosted: 01:44 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found out recently that I hate roads made of cobblestones.
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PostPosted: 02:08 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Only roads with tram tracks in them.
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PostPosted: 08:04 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Roads where they have rippped the top surface off in order to put a new one down, but decided it was too much effort to do both of those things in one sitting. So, they leave it half finished and covered in stones, gravel and other shit for about a week while they scratch their arses and masturbate inside portaloos to 6 month old copies on Nuts until the new tarmac gets delivered. Thumbs Down
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PostPosted: 08:12 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I live in the country, and so alot of the backroads have gravel in the middle of the road from where it has rained or tractors have covered the road in mud. These are particularly bad on corners! When you go round them you just think oh crap stay upright stay upright!
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PostPosted: 08:59 - 18 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

timmyboynorwich wrote:
I live in the country, and so alot of the backroads have gravel in the middle of the road from where it has rained or tractors have covered the road in mud. These are particularly bad on corners! When you go round them you just think oh crap stay upright stay upright!


Yep, that sounds just like me too!! Shocked

As for the 'uphill - downhill' twisties I try and make sure I go into Shaftsbury on the middle road where there are just going down bends and then back on the high road where there are the proper uphill twisties! Laughing

Makes a change from when I'd go all round the houses to get somewhere so I didn't have to turn right!! Embarassed
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