fossyant said:
just take it easy as the sharp right-hander is where folk lose it....
well, the right-hander is fairly gentle, you lose it on the steep downhill after it or the blind sharp left-hander at the bottom !
After Macc Forest, you drop down, pass a pub the 'Stanley Arms' and then climb up again to cross the Cat&Fiddle road A537 (I hate that climb...)
After crossing the A537, you drop down fast past a farm (this is fine, I've had over 40 on this section, it has good surface, straight, fairly wide, open sightlines, no problem)
- but then it gets narrower and you turn a right-hander and it gets much steeper : there's a sign at the top that says something like 20% but I think it's steeper...
The road is pot-holey, has a stream running across it and loose gravel from that, goes down steeply to a blind left-hander at the bottom, which is under trees and has green, slimy tarmac even in Summer.
It's almost impossible to decellerate down this steeper bit, whatever speed you go round that first right-hander is the speed you'll do down that hill - brake hard and you'll just lock up.
You have to negotiate the potholes & gravel, then get round that blind-left-hander at the bottom, hoping there's not actually anything coming the other way...
Don't have sleepless nights worrying about it, the Polka Dot/Spud
Murphy Riley runs past that every year and there's anot a pile of bodies at the bottom or anything, but it's worth a bit of caution, that's all.
After the blind left-hander is a dip and a climb back up, passing Lamaload reservoir half a mile or so further on, so if you get to that point you can relax
- and if you didn't even notice this steep-drop-and-blind-bend, you'll wonder what all the fuss was about !
