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The Oxley highway from Walcha to Gingers Creek in the XR8 OR on the YZF. Nice fast straights to stretch the legs & plenty of windes at the Gingers Creek end, stop at the creek for a hamburger & a beer & blast back. 30 mins from home, how can you go wrong lol
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I've done Wiseman's Ferry Rd from the freeway to the dirt and back again - very very nice. Was with a 1 month old Pulsar SSS, so I didn't go the dirt at all
Don't know why i haven't replied to this but fave roads are Great Ocean Road, Great Alpine Road (which I had the pleasure of driving this year for my Corolla's first real road), Commonara Parkway is a good short blast within Sydney and Wiseman's Ferry Road is good. Plus there's one on the way back from the Hunter Valley but I can't remember the name of it. I did the old Pacific Hwy back from Wiseman's Ferry Rd at 70km/h (as police were likely) and never touched the brakes. |
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Thanks, elephino. Mentioning the Great Alpine has reminded me of another one. The Snowy Mountains Highway, Adaminaby to Tumut. Just as good the other way, of course. If you like your mountain roads narrower and bumpier (for WRX owners as opposed to R8 owners) Batlow to Corryong via Tumbarumba and Tooma is hard to beat. Right across the rooftop of Australia. I've only ever driven it three times, but I'm not a local. The first time was in the late '70s in a Mitsubishi Lancer rally car. Second time was in a Commodore Acclaim, and the last time in my wife's Vectra. Fantastic drive in all three, and the views are to die for. Just don't upset the local farmers and their dogs herding sheep down the middle of the road.
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I was talking to a copper the other day and he was telling me about the time he was in the passenger seat of a VL Turbo HWP car on his way to an accident between Tumut and Tumbarumba. He said that they were doing 180kph (or more) and just as they were approaching the crest of a hill some more info came over the radio. It said that the accident that they were going to was "A car went over a crest and hit a flock of sheep"
They didn't have time to slow down before they were over the very same crest and into the same flock of sheep! He said that there were sheep flying everywhere! They went off the edge of the road and rolled ever a few times but were unhurt, but there were dead sheep and sheep with legs missing....... |
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I really love the drive from Cardiff to Leominster via the Beacons early am, you can really fly and the scenery is awesome
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Another time, he was travelling considerably faster down near Wagga (he denies he was travelling fast, but you decide) when he saw a dark shape on the road ahead. He swerved to avoid what he thought was a person in dark clothes, but one tyre caught a rough edge of the road shoulder and blew out. The car slewed across the road, across a ditch, sheared off a 5" diamter tree trunk and then barrel-rolled across a ploughed field, finishing up more than 100 metres from the road, upright, and totally covered in grey dust. From the photo it just looked like an abandoned car. The roof had strange parallel scratchs across it, which were from the barb-wire fence the car went over upside down at the time! He wasn't hurt, and when he rang the police to report the accident, the policemen asked two questions "Are you hurt?" and "have you been drinking?" When the answer was the negative, the policeman just said goodnight and hung up!PS turns out the "dark shape" was an eagle feeding on some road kill in the middle of the road, and what he saw was the flapping wings... Last edited by Bigguy; 6 Jun 2004 at 14:16. |
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He said that I had the right to remain silent....
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Thought I would drag this old one up again. I drove a the road between Oberon and GOulburn the other day, great drive really enjoy able if you like some old roads with some challenging corners then this is the one.
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Good of you to dig this up Amaroo. These days may favourite drive of all is the 3k's in no traffic from work back to home :-) I also love the set of bends from Gosford to kariong - either way they are alot of fun and a short but sweet end to a drive home from Sydney.
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Myn would be the drive from nr Oswestry through to Bala via Llangollen. Those corners are just beautiful and smooth
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The Great Ocean Road - in fact the entire journey from Sydney along the coast to Adelaide - is probably tops. The Hana Road in Hawaii is up there and I guess The Pacific Coast Highway is worthy of a mention in third. The most memorable though were probably the Dempster Highway in the Yukon and the Gibb River Road in WA. Most scary? The back road through the mountains from Monaco to Nice...
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Greenhill Road- Whether you're heading into or out of the city it's a fun road. As long as you don't get stuck behind some **** doing 35km/h.
That and the run from Lobethal to Tea Tree Gully, via Chain of Ponds Road. THAT is fun. |
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Wombeyan Caves road leaves Mittagong and goes west towards Oberon (sorta), brakes glow red there. The bit of Prince Highway, NSW South Coast, through Dignams Creek and Victoria Creek, it is 11kms of sheer bliss. Any road in NE Victoria or if you want real adventure try the Barry Way from Jindabyne down to Victoria, it follows the Snowy River for a lot of the trip and it is dirt. They used to run rallies down it but the pansies wouldn't do it today. Brown's Mountain out of Moruya is another top drive, I could go on forever.
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Drove a good road last monday. It was called ummmm oh yeah thats right Mt Panorama Bathurst
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Elan valley to Ynyslas Via Devils bridge and Nant-y-moch pure heaven whatever car Im driving
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I have done the Hana road all the way round the volcano. The wild, open weather side of the island is an unreal experience, with the cliffs and smashing surf, and then into Hana area with the tight turns.
For me, US 129 in Western Tennessee. Deal's Gap. The Dragon's Tail as it is called. Granite walls and drop offs. Great cycle or auto road. |
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Some of the best roads I have ever drive were in route 40, wich is 4900km long and goes through the andes, from south to north of Argentina.
http://www.turismo.gov.ar/esp/atra/ruta/cd/index.html There are places were you go from the desert to the jungle in a couple of Kms just arround a hill... its crazy! All along you go from sea level to 5000m above it, back and forth, there are salt flats, jungles, mountains, rivers were you can drink the most pure water and some parts without tarmac (gravel or sand) where... well... I drove them in a Jeep Grand Cherokee but I wish I had an Impreza STI at thosemoments... |
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