sti555

I was out today, driving between leek & buxton, loads of fun twisty roads when I saw this...



Can't really tell in the piccys but it was very narrow, twisty & very very steep (i reckon -25/30%), just had a new clutch so thought it would be a good idea to take the scooby down the track & see what was round the corner!

Off we go..!




All was going well got to the bottom with no trouble..



and..


But it got abit bumpy going up the other side, car is quite low..



Got round the corner, just a field full of sheep, was abit dissapointed! lol!, coming back down again was scary, big cliff to the left..



Got my foot stuck in cattle grid for this shot



Parked up, no damage!



Sorry for the poor pictures, taken on my phone


And

*Special Stupid Pointless Poor Quality Video Clicky!!* 4.59mb

[Edited by sti555 - 1/8/2004 11:20:49 PM]

Mickle

Excellent place and pics!

[Edited by Mickle - 1/8/2004 5:21:31 PM]

sti555

Cheers Mickle..

Brain's not working

Spooks

Now that looks like fun of the highest order
Gotta laugh though " parked up no damage"......hehe common sense kicked back in then
Spooks

sti555

Spooks is was fun, trying to use the car as much as I can before my date with the wooden tops (19th Jan) & my immenient ban

it was a weird place though, little tiny farm house with about 200 sheep in a pen, no one about... ran over a large animal turd for a laugh at the top cliff.. was expecting it to be soft, but was rock hard, lol!....Bloody cold too

Watch out for episode 2 coming soon..

Suggestions or ideas Anyone??

f1

Made me laugh, great story. Disappointing end mind. Good photos off of a phone though.

Jake

Which phone shot those pics??

CharlieWhiskey

OK heres a map, where is it?http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...multimap.y=138

Cant think of one that goes nowhere, did think it was here

Gav

when your next out mate i could probs join you

i go driving there alot ( cat and fiddle )

gav..

sti555

The phone is spv e200, video coming shortly..

Not quite sure where the place was, my mate says it's near the roaches (spelling??) if that helps

sti555

scoobygav,

prob will be there over the weekend, it's a nice bit of road, was just a tad too wet today, would'nt like to lose it on one of the corners/drops though!

ajm

Excellent pics and narrative! Lucky there was no other traffic about to see you randomly stopping the car, jumping out and taking pictures of it!

sti555

Ok People,

Just done a stupid pointless poor quality video, again done on phone, only 5fps as low memory..

Off for a ***, have a look anyway!

Clicky 4.59mb

sti555

ajm,

thanks for the comments!

MooseRacer

... ran over a large animal turd for a laugh at the top cliff..

lol, easily amused then?


the whole episode sounds like something I'd do - except I'd have managed to get stuck down there somehow


nice work mate, keep it up

Pilgrimage

"...ran over a large animal turd for a laugh at the top cliff.. was expecting it to be soft, but was rock hard, lol!....Bloody cold too..."

I can understand you noticing how hard it was (suspension i expect) but how & more to the point why did you take its temperature???

Tim66 STi8

Hi all, great roads around that area, use to live in Buxton so I know all the twisty dirt lanes There are some good roads just off the main Buxton - Leek road A53. As you are heading towards Buxton past the winking man pub you come to a crossroad, take the right heading towards Longnor, at the start of that road 5 to 600 yards there is one hell of a jump & the rest is pure fun If you want a fast twisty road then try the A5004 Buxton to whaley Bridge, then once you do that go to the goyt vally 4 a chillout & an icecream Then out of the goyt & that will take you onto the cat & fiddle road. Give them a try if you like them i have got loads more to surgest Happy safe driving.

Tim