Wrynose and Hardknott in the rain
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- There were five of us on this trip! Will we make it over in the rain without incident! Unlike last year! Wait till the end. @skmstudio @motorcyclenewsdotcom @MotorbikeMagEs @ItchyBoots @MotoJitsu
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Jeezo, there's some nasty potholes on that road. 100% concentration on riding, I bet! Thanks for sharing the video.
Thanks for sharing another great video, Steve. Wow, what a pretty ride. Taking in this scenery on a bike had to be special. In my younger days when I had a bike, I always sought out the most scenic rides in my area. You get a whole new appreciation for it when you're in the open air as opposed to riding in a car or truck. Call me crazy for doing it without a helmet (unless I was in town, around a lot of cars), but I kept my head on a swivel and never dropped my bike. Absolutely loved the experiences. Stay safe. ✌️
Great video. You do not always get the full experience of how steep some parts of this road are until you have done it. Been over it loads of times. The Roman fort is a must visit.😁
Definitely one of the better films on RUclips. Nicely ridden. No silly speeds ,well spaced and when you can see the front rider thirty feet up but only a bend and a half ahead the gradient is pretty apparent. Did it on a 650 trumpet in 1982. Bout time I did it again!
I did this on foot many years ago. Great part of the World.
At places - it looks like a bicycle path! Wow!
It looks in better condition in this video than when I last did it - at least there is now black stuff over most of the width, and not too many loose stones on the bends
well done. i went over this in 1981 on an yam xs250 with duff shocks and a 19 year old pregnant wife on pillion. with hindsight. i wouldn't do it with the same conditions now.
That road is in an awful state, some of those potholes are bike damaging, looks a lot worse then 4 years ago when we rode it. Suppose it’s a never ending job repairing with all the different weather conditions though. Credit to you guys for doing it in all that rain, nice bikes.
You would have been too focused on keeping on that road, Steve, to have noticed that you passed Hardknott Roman Fort which is slightly to the right in "the field" on that side of the road (see the plaque at 11:43). Given the remoteness of that location, it's not hard to see why the exposed stone foundations of the walls and buildings are in such good nick ... and seeing that weather, you can't help but think how tough it must have been for the soldiers posted there(!). 😄
My car has had a replacement clutch so I can now revisit this stunning scenery again this year.
Cheers Steve.
Went over there years ago in a Mark 1 Cortina. The days before cars were not judged on speed performance but whether it got the job done.
Done it by car and 4x4 several times - and once in a 1967 Transit camper, which performed very well, but tended to pick up the inner rear wheel on the steepest, sharpest corners. This makes me want to go back!
Wow...looks like a great pass to ride...if it looks that steep on the camera it must be bloomin steep!. Stunning scenery 👌
Did it in May on my Kawasaki GTR 1400 on a trip from Northern Ireland... It can be tight and challenging in parts.. Shame about the weather you got..
And yes the camera definitely doesn't show just how steep it is in places..
Great 👍
Try it in the other direction 👍
Still deciding which bike to take up there, Rebel 1100 has the power but is heavy or the Super Cub 125 which I have been up Applecross pass with a couple of years ago it was so light I could just throw it around hazards and squeeze past oncoming traffic on most single track roads on the NC500. At the moment the 125 is winning and with my new trailer I can trail it to the campsite from Rading then enjoy the passes before continuing on to Lanark for the second week.
Actually a 1 in 3 would be a 33.3 recurring % but 30% is pretty close😂
wow / looks a lot steeper than applecross
It is... much steeper. I came over the Hardknott the other way and going down felt like riding off a cliff. Wrynose was fantastic. Harknott.... not so much.
You certainly chose and 'interesting' day to ride it, but at least the traffic was minimal. I rode the passes in the opposite direction in May. It was nice and dry but over the Hardknott the combination of some traffic that didn't understand that most motorcycles have neither reverse gear or hand brakes and the really poor road surfaces in places made it a bit of an 'experience'... and not one I wish to repeat any time soon. The Wrynose was a blast.
Haven’t done that in years