FAO: Anyone going to North Wales

Nuts4fsr

Went to Bala for my Bro's Stag do at the weekend.
LOADS of alcohol and meat was consumed. Very little cake. Sorry...
Rednal Karting just outside Oswestry was our entertainment. BEST track I have ever driven.
However......
The road from Bala to Oswestry everyone else followed was the A5. Wrong move. I went B4391 & B4396 and discovered a real gem of driving heaven.

Not only was the road exquisite to drive on with fantastic scenery, it was also freshly roadplaned, partially widened and newly tarmaced.

If you get the chance, drive it. You wont be disappointed.

Chunkers1980

Been doing that trip for years. Through, Knocking, where there's a shop, the Knocking shop. Beautiful road, never go the os way unless towing.

YeehaaMcgee

I wish everyone would stop using any of the roads in Wales.
I get quite annoyed when the journey to Coed y Brenin (normally about 30-40 mins) takes over an hour and a half in summer due to the fekkin caravans, and tourists gawping at our mountains.

mudcow007

absolutely positively full of police around them neck of the woods with speed cameras

especially around the A5

Anonymous

And probably like to stop and breathalise shabby looking mountain bikers in the morning after they've been out on the lash the night before. They're all drunken hooligans after all.

YeehaaMcgee

mudcow007 wrote:

absolutely positively full of police around them neck of the woods with speed cameras

especially around the A5

Not as bad as people claim - but they do hide in horseboxes and the like.

El Capitano

Not quite north, more mid Wales, but the A44 from Langurig to Aberystwyth is my favourite road for either riding or driving in the UK.

tmsjns

I love that road i hit i at misnight on he way home one nigh and it was emtpy and awesome!
I live around 20 mins from coed y brennin, Thats where Im using to get back into riding after three years of. ot riding, I used to work atthe cafe in coed y brennin and used to ride the trails after work, Ob the good old days when I was fitter and less fat!

welshkev

mudcow007 wrote:

absolutely positively full of police around them neck of the woods with speed cameras

especially around the A5

i used to drive to and from north wales at least once a week and have never seen any police up there hiding with speed cameras :?

VWsurfbum

welshkev wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

absolutely positively full of police around them neck of the woods with speed cameras

especially around the A5

i used to drive to and from north wales at least once a week and have never seen any police up there hiding with speed cameras :?

its because they were hiding

welshkev

VWsurfbum wrote:

welshkev wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

absolutely positively full of police around them neck of the woods with speed cameras

especially around the A5

i used to drive to and from north wales at least once a week and have never seen any police up there hiding with speed cameras :?

its because they were hiding

oh yeah...duhhh...

thekickingmule

welshkev wrote:

VWsurfbum wrote:

welshkev wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

absolutely positively full of police around them neck of the woods with speed cameras

especially around the A5

i used to drive to and from north wales at least once a week and have never seen any police up there hiding with speed cameras :?

its because they were hiding

oh yeah...duhhh...

And you were driving too slowly for them to notice you

YeehaaMcgee

There does seem to be far fewer speed camera things around here than there used to be (touch wood).
Didn't they hand the duty back to the cops after it was run by a private company for years? Maybe the cops are lazy.