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I couldn't find a thread to fit this one, so I've started one (mods please move it you find something more suitable).

Now I have means to finally download from my video camera, there's no stopping me with the musical road videos (thanx for the idea, Bryn!).

So here's my second effort - the A537 Cat & Fiddle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXcZVuiZ-EE

Let me know what you think!

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Great video, recognise parts of that road from Traffic Cops and the like. :P
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Nice one Serena. Cat and fiddle is one of my favourite roads. My daughter lives in Macc so I use this route often when we go the "pretty route".

I've driven it many times, ploughed it a couple of times, been for material on it numerous times, and drunk/ate in the C & F on a number of occasions, never get fed up of it :D

Did the prat that ovetook you just after the C & F make it to Buxton just two cars before you?
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Sabrista wrote: Let me know what you think!
Good music, but you crazy brits, driving on the wrong side of the road :wink:
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Sabrista wrote:I couldn't find a thread to fit this one, so I've started one (mods please move it you find something more suitable).

Now I have means to finally download from my video camera, there's no stopping me with the musical road videos (thanx for the idea, Bryn!).

So here's my second effort - the A537 Cat & Fiddle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXcZVuiZ-EE

Let me know what you think!

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I think it is brilliant. Do you mind if I link to it from Rural Roads?

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M4Simon wrote:I think it is brilliant. Do you mind if I link to it from Rural Roads?
I would be flattered :) Please go ahead!

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Nic_A47 wrote: Good music, but you crazy brits, driving on the wrong side of the road :wink:
Hang on, we drive on the 'proper' side of the road, here! :wink:

Anyway, excellent video Sabrista, well done! I used to this sort of thing when I was little whenever we went on holiday. I still have about half of my own recordings on video cassette to this day which must go back about 15 years! Watching your video brought back some happy memories!

I used to use the A537 fairly regularly when I was little on trips to Buxton and the various caverns in the area, so I recognised a lot of the road from that video. Sadly, I haven't used it for at least 18 months now (probably a little more than that) and it seems the plague of yellow backed signs has grown further. Still, an excellent road!
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I know the road fairly well - the lack of any sort of protection against falling off the edge can be daunting at times! Good to see the C+F is still well populated by bikers!

You'll have to get another video of the road in the snow - that's when it really becomes interesting along there!
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Call me thick, but I presume the video is going at about 1.5x real-time?
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SubaruImprezaWRX wrote:Call me thick, but I presume the video is going at about 1.5x real-time?
You're thick! ;)

It looks like 2x to me.
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haymansafc wrote:I used to use the A537 fairly regularly when I was little on trips to Buxton and the various caverns in the area, so I recognised a lot of the road from that video. Sadly, I haven't used it for at least 18 months now (probably a little more than that) and it seems the plague of yellow backed signs has grown further. Still, an excellent road!
I still prefer the A515 ;)
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Jam35 wrote:
SubaruImprezaWRX wrote:Call me thick, but I presume the video is going at about 1.5x real-time?
You're thick! ;)

It looks like 2x to me.
James gets the point - it's 2x :lol:

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I was going to say, crikey - unless driving a Scooby of course! :wink:

Thanks for vid BTW, looks look a really nice road to drive. No wonder m/cyclists love it so much.
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Post by Lewis »

BigToe wrote:Great video, recognise parts of that road from Traffic Cops and the like. :P
Me too :P
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SubaruImprezaWRX wrote:I was going to say, crikey - unless driving a Scooby of course! :wink:
Well, if driving at Scooby pace I was following a damn quick Nissan Almera :o
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Very nice, but PLEASE GIVE CYCLISTS ROOM!
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Hagbard wrote:Very nice, but PLEASE GIVE CYCLISTS ROOM!
There's always one whinger :P
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I have a few videos on my YouTube page. All in real time! :wink:
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DavidBrown wrote:I have a few videos on my YouTube page. All in real time! :wink:
If I hadn't sped up the C&F it would have been over 15 minutes long!

As for the Grane Road one, speeding that up made it fit the song exactly.

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PeterA5145 wrote:
Hagbard wrote:Very nice, but PLEASE GIVE CYCLISTS ROOM!
There's always one whinger :P
Not whingeing, but if I was the second cyclist overtaken in that video the driver would have got a mouthful of abuse. With no solid white line and no oncoming traffic there's no need to pass a bike that close.
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