The A59!

[Deanosri]

Ive just been for a job interview up in skipton, I hope I get it not just because I need a job but because that road (from clitheroe to skipton, and back again) is absolutely immense! I don't drive it often enough but love every minute of it when I do so, does anybody else no the stretch Im on about? Its wicked!!:thumb:

[mowgli]

i used to do a lorry route from clitheroe to stamford, the bit to skipton is incredible & is right up on my list of roads to drive just for the sake of it.

it was fun in a loaded tipper, so it must be great in a car... i'd love to have a go on it at about 6am in june or july before the world gets up

[L33 LEG]

I remember the days when we all used to drive along it at night, in fact there was that time you had the white nova and i was in my saxo going up that hill back from skipton Lol if you remember?

Anyway, im sure in rush hour that would be a crap road, wouldnt be able to overtake and would be constantly getting held up by slow drivers. There seems to be a death weekly on there aswell so more than likely you'll be stuck in serious jams at some point.

[Deanosri]

Oh yeah! I'd forgot about that haha good times! If I get the job I start at 7:15am so it should be quiet around 7am bar the odd wagon to pick off. I timed myself once in my GSi from the centre of Clitheroe to centre of Skipton and I did it in 17mins, I reckon that can be beaten but a sub 15minute run would be asking alot ha.
I bet it's one different experience in a loaded tipper mind!

[L33 LEG]

Watch out for the traffic cops at night, may even be there early hours of the morning aswell. A few years ago they were catching everybody out, think it's alot quieter now though.

[mowgli]

I bet it's one different experience in a loaded tipper mind!

we go down the hills as fast as we can to get up the next.....

[raymond]

fcuk me not been on that road for a long while i remeber my brother getting nabbed on there in his mk1 astra last year and a valver nova was with him and the guy in the nova told the copper it was a 1,2

yet he was keeping up with the gte lol

the copper diodnt beleave him and they all got 3 points iirc he had to pay 120 quid fine the guy in the nova

[mowgli]

i saw a citroen bx with a caravan flip over about 5 miles east of the cement works..... the debris was everywhere....... the family of 4 got out ok, and just stood there dazed. i know you shouldn't laugh, but it was damn funny.

[mowgli]

anyway, aren't the roads round there clogged up with brand new renault meganes????

[Southie]

That be Gisburn then Lad. ;)

Love driving "around Skipton" roads especially the A59 from Skipton to Harrogate as well, spent most of my youth driving the Yorkshire roads wasting fuel.

[Maka]

Yes Southie, the very stretch that Deano's on about was where I first spotted you in the nova if you remember...

I drove that road everyday while I was learning, its still one of my favourite drives even if its only to go skipton for some tesco 99 motion potion haha

[beggsy]

yes it is a sick road i have to admit. we should all go over to skipton and meet up sometime there is that massive carpark over there to. it would be a nice drive out.