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An East European viewpoint on the A537.

Posted by The Prodigal <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=The+Prodigal' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 23, 2023, 2:17 pm

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Written by Cristian Puscasu from Romania.

https://autotrends.org/cat-and-fiddle-road-drive/

"Nothing from the past was sad...every incident from the past was laughable
for the simple reason that it was past, and that he had survived it without
mortal damage." (Alan Sillitoe.)

Re: An East European viewpoint on the A537.

Posted by Lannis <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Lannis' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 23, 2023, 2:43 pm, in reply to "An East European viewpoint on the A537."

Oh my gosh. My knuckles are whitening and sphincter shrinking just hearing the name.

Arriving in Liverpool at 9:30PM in the rain on a very late ferry.

A65Bill leads our crew of 7 bikes (5 with working headlights, 5 with working taillights. Headlight bikes in front, taillight bikes in the rear) out of Liverpool to the southeast, then peeled off for home and the remaining crew navigated by carrier pigeon from there.

We then took a route that I will not attempt to describe except that I remember Great Budworth and Knutsford being on it. We passed near Macclesfield about midnight in dense fog and rain, and soon after were climbing the Cat and Fiddle road.

Fay and I were on a massively overloaded A10 (over 500 pounds payload, us + luggage). I was straining to see the flickering 6V taillight in front of me through the fog; nothing else was visible except the occasional guardrail. If that taillight had gone over a cliff, I would have been right behind it.

After what seemed like an eternity, we bypassed Buxton at about 2:00 AM, passed through Bakewell (I only knew it via a lit roadsign, I never got a sniff of a tart or pudding), and finally pulled up at "The Plough" in Two Dales at O dark 30 in the morning ....

Wouldn't have missed it for the world, though!

Lanni

At no time in history have the people forcing other people into compliance been the good guys.

Re: An East European viewpoint on the A537.

Posted by Beezabryan <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Beezabryan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 23, 2023, 3:32 pm, in reply to "Re: An East European viewpoint on the A537."

Memories Lannis, memories for both of us.

Happy days

BeezaBryan

He knows not where he's going, For the ocean will decide,
Its not the destination, It's the glory of the ride (Edward Monkton, Zen Dog)

Re: An East European viewpoint on the A537.

Posted by moe <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=moe' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 24, 2023, 9:16 am, in reply to "Re: An East European viewpoint on the A537."

If only i had a £ for every time i have been on this road 2 wheels and 4

Let's go the other way...

Posted by The Prodigal <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=The+Prodigal' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 1, 2023, 3:35 pm, in reply to "Re: An East European viewpoint on the A537."

...or perhaps not.

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"Nothing from the past was sad...every incident from the past was laughable
for the simple reason that it was past, and that he had survived it without
mortal damage." (Alan Sillitoe.)

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