CarbonRick

What are the best driving roads in the UK?

I'm guessing we don't have anything near as grand as the Stelvio Pass or Transfagarasan..

Alps Pacino

Helmsley to stokesly road or the yorkshire tt as its known, some decent vids on youtube of it

cjwood555

Might not look much on there but...
Llangollen - Ruithin (horse-shoe pass and Nant y Garth Pass) - has some good flowing twisty sections

Huddersfield A62 - not massively exiting but good for getting some speed down with spectacular views!

Braughing to Bishop's Stortford - a little sprint I used to do in the 1.1 205!

Stortford to Chelmsford (A1060) - boring in traffic but at 2am I could do this road in 14 mins in a 1.6 focus

sparticus1

Aberfoyle to Kilmahog on the A821 in Central Scotland. The bikes use it all the time with loads of hairpin bends on it

Chip

iTrader: (3)

Nearly all the best driving roads in the UK arent in england IMHO

There are some fantastic roads in wales, and presumably in scotland, in england even the great roads like snake pass are just far too fucking busy with other cars for you to ever really enjoy.

The key element of a great driving road is having no one else on it driving along slowly spoiling it for me IMHO

COCHYN

Check my last mag feature out, plenty of pics showing why Wales is so good for any motor enthusiast ;

Spiky

iTrader: (1)

as chip says, some truely amazin roads in wales, i found 2 new one;s the other day and the views and road for amazing, next year when my car is taxed and mot'd i'm taking it on a few runs with the video cameras running

DangerousBryan

a68 from the a1 accross to edinburgh through jedburgh gets my vote. also snake pass from sheffield to glossop. greenfield road from holmfirth to greenfield.

DangerousBryan

snake pass is dead at 4am chip. you have to make the effort in the uk to get on them when they are empty. roads in wales and scotland are probably dead more of the time.

Rich_bloor

buttertubs pass and the cat and fiddle !!!

Chip

iTrader: (3)

At 4am yes it is, but the views arent quite as enjoyable


A truely great driving road should have everything, challening turns, interesting gradients, fantastic views, and no traffic.

Rick

cat and fiddle is getting SPECS

DangerousBryan

suns about up at that time in the summer though.
cat and fiddle way to busy and a heavy police presence most of the time.

coleman

Anywhere close Spiky?

Theres a few good roads between Barry and Bridgend
Either through Llandow or through Wick

Edit
I forgot about the mountain road from the Rhonnda valleys to Ogmore valleys! Over the Baulk i think its called.
A mate took me over it a good few years ago in his std 1.9 205 gti and scared the shit out of me