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Ninfield to: Ashburnham and back again
Want to try out some knee sliders. This is a nutters route with lots of very sharp left and right corners. Be prepared to do some niffty heavy braking (wild/Farm Animal). First go to the kings arms (opposite petrol station) in ninfield the take the road that goes to catsfield. Keep going down this road until you come across a T Junction turn Left here. Keep along this road until you come across another T junction, turn left again. You will then end up where you started from.
HARROGATE to: SKIPTON
JUST WANTING A QUICK BLAST ON A FINE ROAD,GOD CREATED THIS FOR A CBR,LEAVING HARROGATE TOWARDS SKIPTON AFTER 1ST ROUNDABOUT PUB ON CORNER (TRAVELLERS)NICE STRAIGHT BEWARE RIGHT HAND TURN APPROX.3/4 MILE SIGNPOSTED HAMPSTHWAITE,SWEEPING LEFT HANDER OVER BROWE THEN HOLD ON TO YOUR NUTS FOR A REEL THROTTLE OPENER,BEWARE CROSSROADS,SWEEPING BENDS BOTH LEFTIES AND RIGHTIES,NICE PACE TILL MENWITH HILL AGAIN BEWARE X ROADS,THEN OPEN HER UP DOWN HILL AND UP RIGHT HAND TURN APPROX. 3/4 MILE THEN RIGHT HANDER KNOCK DOWN SPEED SLIGHTLY FOR DECENT INTO LEFT HANDER THEN YOUR AT THE INTERESTING BIT ,ROCKY DROP TO RIGHT SO BE CAREFUL NICE TWISTY PEG GRINDING ROAD LEADING TO HIGHEST POINT OF TRIP.BEWARE THE POLICE OFTEN START CLOCKING YOU AT THIS POINT BUT THEY ARE EASILY VISIBLE.SLIGHT STRAIGHT BEFORE RIGHT HANDER THEN 45 LEFT OVER BRIDGE THEN CHOCKS AWAY,NICE MILE AND A HALF OF THROTTLE OPENING THEN SLIGHT RIGHT HANDER.DUAL CARRIAGEWAY PLENTY OF CHIN DOWN ,COPPERS SOMETIMES HAVE UN MARKED BMW,RED,N REG 318i ON LEFT HIDDEN NEXT GATE ENTRANCE TO FIELD.PLANE SAILLING TO SKIPTON 20 MINUTES DOOR TO DOOR MAX.
Ilfracombe to: Salcombe
Excellent roads with plenty of nice features. From the North of the county to the South, you will frequently pass other motorists plodding along at a safe speed, usually within the legal speed-limit, whilst travelling through many villages where the local inhabitants stand at the side of the road, recording the registration numbers of speeding motorcyclists, and then reporting them to the Police.
Occasionally, but more frequently, due to the ratio of Intelligence : Disposable Income rapidly diminishing amongst new bikers these days, you will see a bunch of flowers at the side of the road, or nestling in a brick wall, usually with a note of rememberance. These are usually there because someone died in a road-traffic-accident, and local statistics show that motor-cyclists are often involved, either in being a partial cause or often being the fatal victim of the accident.
If you are exceptionally lucky, you may come across the result of an RTA, where the dead or dying motorcyclist is still lying prostrate on the road, due to excessive speeding along a normally safe stretch of road. Body parts may also be seen, often where the rider has hit a stone wall after colliding with an oncoming vehicle. However, it is best left to the Police to clear up the mess and hose down the road, before re-opening the highway to the rest of the public who drive with reasonable care and attention.
Barton le Clay, Bedfordshire to: Hitchen, Hertfordshire
Take the B655 out of Barton towards Hexton and Hitchen and as soon as you come out of the village it's into a slightly curved open blast of countryside. As you come up the slight rise a lovely right hand bend (be careful of the drop on the left!) takes you down into Hexton. It is here where it is worth slowing down to the 40mph speed limit for the 150 yards through the village as the bottom of the hill into Hexton levels off very quickly and sports bikes nearly ground themselves!
After going through the bottom of Hexton the road rises steeply and comes out of the 40mph limit, opening the throttle again sees a flurry of trees fly by before dropping round a fast left hander before rising again into a fast rising right before slowing to a 3rd/2nd gear sharp left hander. Opening the throttle again blasts you down the flat straight out of the trees and up the hill through a fast right hander and into another fast left (watch the rough tarmac!). A little wiggle left takes you onto the flat and round the fast slight left hander and onto another fast straight. Going back into the trees takes you into a quite fast right (be careful as it is on a deceptive slight rise making the bike very light!) and then into a good series of fast lefts and rights finsihing with a slightly sharper left. The trees then open as you blast along the last curvy straight. Caution must be taken towards the end of the straight due to a right hand bend with roads joining on either side, after which another quite sharp left takes you up the hill and into the 40mph which starts the slow down into Hitchen.
A cracking 4 mile ride which you can keep going over getting faster and faster with no reported police presence (after 4 years of riding the route) and not too much traffic. Bliss!
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