Favorite Roads to drive the Scooby

[UK300_Impreza]

heres a few of my favorite roads to drive when i fancy a wee blast in the scooby and dont want to worry about speed cameras

A821 Aberfoyle - Callander (nice mountain road with some verty tight 1st gear corners)

another favorite

A86 Laggan Road to Fort William (love this road gr8 fun and going to see the fortwilliam world cup even better)

then A82 fort william to strling and back home to edinburgh or petrol station

[weeb]

we have done the aberforyle to callander road in one of our runs and is a personal favourite of mines!!

we are looking for input of good roads for future runs so if you have any more!! we prefer non main roads, cracking scenery and most important it must be challenging and fun to drive!!

ps. welcome to the club!!

[imprezapete]

I hate to say this but is this a good idea to post here due to the fact that we know police have been known to monitor this site?

[Gumball]

surely they would have to man a 24/7/365 operation on the offchance they saw one 1 or 2 or 46 of us passing these roads though?

costs them about 1k a day just watch a 10 mile stretch on the M74

My favourite is the roads in South Lanarkshire/borders

thankerton, biggar, galashiels and the rest, they are all class for various reasons.

some have been on such routes with me and enjoyed no end.

loads a shell garages too

[gus the bus]

Fort William to Kyle of Lochalsh for me or Poolewe to Gairloch. Fast but twisty roads and normally nobody on them. Local favourite are the Lang whang A70 from Currie to Carnwath and Carnwath to Peebles

[UK300_Impreza]

gus,

if you goto peebles head to innerleith and take the and the B709 to join up to the A7 very good road then follow the a7 till gorebridge and take the B6372 to penicuik this is a personal favorite run for me

[gus the bus]

A like that one too buddy! Do all these roads on the M.Bike too A lot of good roads in that neck of the woods

Also, Innerleithen over to St Mary's Loch and into Moffat and back by the Beeftub or another favourite is down to Hawick and then A7 to Langholm over the tops to Lockerbie. again, mega rds with nodoby on them

[UK300_Impreza]

yeah my dad likes to do the St Mary's Loch run on his bike says its good fun

[st3ph3n]

If you continue on past Carnwath, carstairs then Hyndford Bridge on the A70 there is a great, but short stretch between there and the M74. Past that and continuing on towards Muirkirk is good too.

One thing about these roads during weekdays there's masses of Coal trucks shifting at a speed which almost defies physics at times. I've been heading to some of our sites, not in the scoob but in a company car, to be greeted by a Coal Truck coming round a blind bend in a 16 wheel drift.

[gus the bus]

One thing about these roads during weekdays there's masses of Coal trucks shifting at a speed which almost defies physics at times. I've been heading to some of our sites, not in the scoob but in a company car, to be greeted by a Coal Truck coming round a blind bend in a 16 wheel drift. >>

Stephen, they are feckin mental these guys! I get them everyday between Harthill, Blackridge and Caldercruix

[sharon_mccall]

Any roads and all roads in my opinion. Scoobies rule!!!!

[st3ph3n]

I can't claim responsibility for those ones, but certainly the ones on the A70 are Scottish Coal ones. Well they're not actually ours, but they're contracted to our sites.

[gus the bus]

<< I can't claim responsibility for those ones, but certainly the ones on the A70 are Scottish Coal ones. Well they're not actually ours, but they're contracted to our sites. >>

Stephen, they aint all coal ones buddy. Some are going to/from the Quarry @ Forrestfield. The Coal ones are coming to/from Polkemmet opencast me thinks.

gus

[UK300_Impreza]

any road is good in a scooby yes , iam talking of driver roads ones that challange you and make you feel involved with the car ever corner a challange that puts a smile on your face

[billyboy]

Hopefully we will be venturing south of the border next year to drive some roads in Cumbria.

[gus the bus]

Billy, plenty in the Cumbria and Northumberland areas. Worked in both with the Forestry Commission!!! Many twisty challenging roads (even in an Forestry Commission Transit )

[rabsmith]

loads of exellent roads in galloway including the A712 between crocketford to newton stewart

[paul_honthy]

The 77 south of maybole to stranraer was a fantastic road in any car but since the new speed camera's theres only certain points that you car put the foot down (of course only to the legal limit!).

mind you not all the cameras r real !

[G.T.]

i loved that road too scotty but bloody cameras fecked it right up

[UK300_Impreza]

Yeah i have to agree thats a good road, nice coast road. i also like the a198 from gullane to port seton not very long but lovely coast road with some fun corners and very very wide road in places for the old straightning out of the corners

[paul_honthy]

the girvan 2 Newton Stewart road is a real challenge especially with the odd logging truck in the middle of the road! to be fair ur kinda spoilt around here for all types of road.

[the squiggle]

Elvanfoot to Thornhill

Crawfordjohn to Sanquhar.............Caution sheep over crest into blind 90 left

Moffat to Broughton.....devils beeftub

Lockerbie to Langholm......17 miles of heaven

Lockerbie to Eskdalemuir......rollercoaster anyone

Eskdalemuir to Langholm

Annan to Dumfries

Newton Stewart to Glenluce via Whithorn

New Galloway to Newton Stewart

Castle Douglas to Kirkudbright{the back road}....stage of WRC round San Remo

Carnwath to Abington via Quothquan

I do all of these roads daily in the line of duty

Favourite is defo the Elvanfoot road and i have the pleasure of driving it Mon to Fri. Scared the pants of a few so called fast cars on that road in the Merc Sprinter. I love the look on thier face when all of a sudden a bright yellow DHL van appears out of nowhere and stays on thier tail as they try to push on a bit. They eventually get the hint after about ten minutes and pull over

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Grant

[st3ph3n]

Oh I've done that Elvanfoot one many years ago in a slow car.

When you know a road you can really gain time on it. It's the same with the coal trucks I was talking about. These boys drive it many times a day and probably know every square inch of it.

Another good road is one I think Corsa mentioned a while back - Strathaven to Muirkirk.

Also - Whitburn - Forth - Lanark. Mind the humps!

[gus the bus]

Also - Whitburn - Forth - Lanark. Mind the humps! >>

thats a brilliant road from the Forth side into the humps leading to the Breich traffic lights! Normally get the motorbike airborne by the third one. All under 70mph obviously

[oobster]

<< Also - Whitburn - Forth - Lanark. Mind the humps! >>

thats a brilliant road from the Forth side into the humps leading to the Breich traffic lights! Normally get the motorbike airborne by the third one. All under 70mph obviously >>

I often wonder why they made the road like that - weird!

I love the B792 between Blackburn & West Calder, up past Freeport.