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Rubbish
ZigZag road at box hill is not there, that has to be the twistiest
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ZigZag road at box hill
I tried to find it on Google Earth but failed. Is that it's proper name?
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Try www.frappr.com/boxhill
Ryka's Cafe at the bottom does fantastic burgers and is a biker's hangout On a Sunday afternoon you will see everything from an old Bonny or Velo thru Harleys to the latest superbikes. Well worth a visit.
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B3081 is sure damn twisty!
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Zig Zag road from the Burford Bridge Hotel off the B2209 ( just of the A24) is shown on my on Autoroute
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ZigZag road at box hill I tried to find it on Google Earth but failed. Is that it's proper name?
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I tried Box Hill, UK into Google Earth and it is there ( off the Old London Road) and also just North of Boxhill Road
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Porthcurno to the A30 via St.Buryan (Cornwall) , there is a very tight bend on a 1 in 5 gradient, on a narrow road leaving porthcurno. In additional to the other bends.... Fun part is meeting a coach going downhill and no room to pass on the bend.
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To Applecross from the A896 (Kishorn) over the Bealach nam Bo. May not be the twistiest in total but super views from above the hairpin bends at the top
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>>To Applecross from the A896 (Kishorn) over the Bealach nam Bo. May not be the twistiest in >>total but super views from above the hairpin bends at the top
Totally agree, on a sunny day both routes into Applecross have to be the best. Words cannot describe the views. I have driven all over the UK but cannot find anything that comes close to this.
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I would have thought that the Hardknot / Wrynose passes would have made the top 10 as well!
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Done the hardknot pass, the views were rubbish mainly due to the heavy 90 degree rain that obscured everything. Did the snake pass for the first time this year. Good lunch at the rather quaintly worn out snake pass inn.
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Zig Zag Road at Box Hill has been spoiled for the bikers who used to race up and down it by the addition of speed humps in the straight stretches.
I cannot say that I've experienced any problems of twisty roads in the UK to compare with some of the roads I have driven elsewhere in the world in particular in Crete , Kefalonia, Madeira and Majorca where they have real mountains rather than the small slopes you get in Scotland.The accepted way up and down these mountains is the hairpin bend......short straight .... another hairpin etc,etc..in some places 50 or so bends in a row.
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The B3012 from Pirbright to Frimley is a good one as well. Flick sharp right and sharp left under the railway bridge onto what seems like an endless series of 70-90 degree corners on a wide, grippy road, with a lovely "yump" and 3/4 mile straight in the middle . Brilliant by car or bike. Unforgiving if you get it wrong though - no barriers and lots of trees to hit.
I used to go out late at night just to take the 306 along here.
Cheers
DP
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I never mention our local twisties to anyone.
They get published, the loonies turn up, the locals moan, the plod patrol it, the council humps it.
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Best twisties in Europe?
A136 in Spain following on from the French D934 to Huesca. Features a dual carriageway corkscrew that climbs 900 mtrs with breathtaking views of the Pyrenees. More fun on the way up than the way down where you can use your horsepower to the maximum.
Again in Spain the N1 leading from Vittoria Gasteiz to Burgos- a motorway that twists through mountainous regions and features a hair pin bend with an 80km limit-let me repeat that a hairpin bend on a motorway. Fantastic road surface in parts thanks to EU money and perfectly possible to do speeds that would see you locked for lengthy period in most of the UK.
Those are two of my favourites.
I also used to rate the Infante de Sagres in Portugal running from the other side of Lagos to Portimao. Sadly the authorities have put in speed bumps before many of the roundabouts which means you can't apex them at 90mph as before. Also the spoilsports have started enforcing speed limits with patrols. So only a 6/10 now. Still fun if you get on at the beginning of the motorway where there is usually no traffic at all giveing you a free run and see how quick you can get to max speed though.
Less fun because it's a straight line but the autobahn A31 down from Rhede in north west Germany to Essen is unrestricted and unlike many other German roads mostly empty. I've seen 270kph+ on the GPS there for sustained periods although I'm most likely just making it all up according to some ;-)
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I know the B3012 well, its a real cracker for speed. We used to have contests to see who could fly the furthest at the frimley end when whipping over the Basingstaoke canal. You need to take care tho the army is prone to come leaping out of the trees in landrovers and APC's.
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TonyJ
I reckon that you've got it there; I've never seen anything to match the Bealach na Ba; [though the run up from Staffin to the Quirang Pass is quite close.]
Watching the sun rise from the radio station on the peak of Sgurr A'chaorachain, looking down on the Cullins, is beyond words.
The scariest road must be the one to the lighthouse overlooking the Mull on Kintyre. [Below the site of the Chinook massacre.]
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