Rural Roads

[Paulgertie]

http://www.rural-roads.co.uk/ might be of interest.
Paul

[Richard Marshall]

Ssshhhh.    Its a bit bike a fairy dying every time you say they don't exist.

They're supposed to be a secret you find for yourself or they turn into urban roads. 

Richard

[Steffan]

Indeed!! Someone ought to hack that site. Part of the joys is finding them for yourself. That could only have been put up by a dye in the wool urbanite.

Steffan
PS there are absolutely no descent rural roads in Wales - none at all !! Just for the record!!

[002]

I agree They dont exist !

You cant ride on one of those with the latest YGSXCRFZ 2000 RRR
Cause you cant do 180mph with your knee down on the straights to the next Tea Stop 10 miles away.
Then talk B@llucks about how you took the corners one handed pulling 10g scratching your arse !

Whats more they will only be usable by the likes of us when it rains or the sun aint shining.

SteveH hack the site and destroy it.... NOW !

Jethro

[guest27]

Yup absolutly no good roads in South Wales, no good roads in Devon  and a really bad boring road to be avoided at all costs is the A396 Minehead to Exeter, and never ever ever if you are in he area have a play on the A3072 that carves off the A 396 to Crediton.  They are rubbish rubbish rubbish - infactr I used to have to ride the 3072 3 or 5 times each time I went to my sisters just to remind me how poor it was.

R

[themoudie]

Aye, still appears to be concentrating on 'lemming land'! Including east Herts, where my initial road miles were legally ridden. Mud (boulder clay) on the road through Much Hadham hasn't changed!

Hope the featured roads remain south of the Humber / Mersey line, if the site remains active!!!!!! If you want good roads, ask Pat ;-) and ply him with a good malt!!!!!

Bill

[Andy M]

Buy a GPS and set it to shortest route. You'll get all the interesting stuff.

Fortunately no one has yet covered a unit in stick-on carbon fibre, installed the speed camera locations and mounted it on a lump of flimsy aluminium dressed up as titanium. They weigh a massive amount, so you'd need to drill thousands of holes in your frame and fuel tank to remove an equivalent weight from any sub-200 HP machine in order to keep the performance levels.

There have of course been a few laughs with GPS. A farmer in I think Hampshire is charging £100 a go to pull idiots out of a ford that the GPS people didn't put on the electronic maps, and a German guy was done for dangerous (or maybe drink) driving after swinging on the wheel as soon as the voice said turn left, regardless of the fact that there was no turn.

Andy

[guest27]

When I had to travel between Milton Keynes and Ludlow on a regular basis I tried to go different ways, many were wonderful roads.  I have yet to see a GPS/Satnav, Google map etc that has the option for the road with the most bends per mile, or best views, or stunning villages with brilliant pubs.  Only ever see "Shortest Route" and "Fastest Route" - Both of which from here seem to involve the M4 (Yawn)

R

[hondamichael]

i always finde those routes , as i dont use any maps or sat navs  at all on my way , as i have a good sense of direction
i look at home on the map where i want to go, try to remember some points on the map between wich i should pass
and of i go , ok i sometimes need a couple of hours more because i`ve seen a nice country road which looks like fun with loads of corners , but i usually find a way back on the route wich i have planned , downside of this strategy is if your sat nav says 250 miles i need at least 350 miles , but i just dont care when i arrive, as long as i arrive with a big grin in my face

[guest27]

Mmmm - recognise that.  First trip to see friends in Cornwall on the RD500 changed from a 200 mile trip to over 400 miles, wonderful sunny day and Mmmmmm roads.  Seems to me that there are a number of places called Frome in Somerset...

R

[guest24]

As they (rural roads) dont exist I have decided to start a website called www.rutted-roads.r.us as I live in London and dear old Ken doesn't like to fix them and thats what I ride on....

[hondamichael]

strry but they can`t make the roads better in london , they
 have a reputation to lose as the pothole capital of the world
was there once with a vespa and nearly fell into one of these potholes
but nevertheless london is a nice village to visit as long as you
 live somewhere else
i would prefer to live in
 one of these small valleys in wales