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PH dream drive Brecon to Builth - done today
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19/01/2015 16:00
19/01/2015 16:00
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 836 Hereford
HiraethHuw
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Enjoying the ride
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Enjoying the ride
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Posts: 836
Hereford
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Someone suggested this road to Piston Heads this week as their dream drive. You can read about it here:- http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default....source=20150115I'm on day five of a bad cold, fevers, aching joints, no energy etc but I couldn't face another day in the house. Brecon is 36 miles from Hereford, so I thought why not? I packed paracetamol and drink for me and £30 of Esso for the Vis, then headed out. No snow in Hereford, but the Black mountains were white, and so were the Brecon Beacons. And so was the roadside on the Brecon/Builth road. Spending too long looking at the scenery and putting the wheels into the snow would've been trouble. I didn't give the car the beans as I'm still monged out by my cold. Instead I followed the cambers, avoided the sheep (just), and drove the mountain section twice. The road was gritted, but in the shadows it wasn't enough and the road was covered in slush, so I would bank it round a bend, find I was on a loose surface, back off the power and clench me cheeks and ride it out. Fantastic. My Vis is revving to 6k happily now, and sounds sweet. I carried on through Builth, along another good high road through Hundred House, then back to Hereford via New Radnor and Kington. 106 miles - still a bit of fuel left, feeling like sh!t again but at least I have a smile on my face. Have got pictures but too much of a faff to load them up..... I lurve my Coupe.
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Re: PH dream drive Brecon to Builth - done today
[Re: HiraethHuw]
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19/01/2015 19:57
19/01/2015 19:57
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PeteP
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Hon Club Member 005, Membership Secretary
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Blimey, I'd give it a go but not in the snow! Where in the world is it? It's a bridge on the Atlantic Road in Norway.
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We must all do our part for the planet. I unplugged a row of electric cars that nobody was using.
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Re: PH dream drive Brecon to Builth - done today
[Re: PeteP]
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19/01/2015 21:05
19/01/2015 21:05
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barnacle
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Club Member 18 - ex-Minister without Portfolio
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Blimey, I'd give it a go but not in the snow! Where in the world is it? It's a bridge on the Atlantic Road in Norway. And at least two or three of us are planning on driving it this summer... want to join us?
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