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The A4061 is a bit of a dark horse. Superficially, it looks like a typical local road linking lots of former mining communities in South Wales together. However, on closer inspection, it reveals itself to be an excellent driving road, full of fun twists and turns. It's popular with bikers as an alternative route from the M4 to the A465.
The A4061 starts in the centre of Bridgend, at a junction with the A4063, and immediately crosses the River Ogmore to head northeast
The A4061 is a bit of a dark horse. Superficially, it looks like a typical local road linking lots of former mining communities in South Wales together. However, on closer inspection, it reveals itself to be an excellent driving road, full of fun twists and turns. It's popular with bikers as an alternative route from the M4 to the A465.
The A4061 starts in the centre of Bridgend, at a junction with the A4063, and immediately crosses the River Ogmore to head northeast
Of course up in the mountains of Scotland you would find some.
The infamous Bealach na Bà road to Applecross, there is this series of tight hairpins going up/down hill and single track too.
Been up here a few times, the first time I went up my cars turning circle wasn't so great and needed a small reverse to actually get round one of them.
SteveA30 wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2016 12:22
B3081 Zigzag Hill, has 4 hairpin bends. Just south of Shaftesbury, where there is another on a bypassed bit of A30, now also B3081. 5 Hairpins on one B road, perhaps a record in England. Wales and Scotland no doubt have several like that.
Our forum member Jon from Auto Shenanigans has just made a video about these bends:
A totally different sign in Johannesburg. This particular northbound descent features a 190°bend. About 2 m away is a similar 180° bend, except that th downhill slope is on the sourthern side of the ridge. Interestingly, any rain that falls on the northern side drains into the Indian Ocean and rain that falls on the sourthern side drains into the Atlantic Ocean. In 1970/1 I had a flat about midway between the two which was right on the ridge.
And now for something completely different; my grandparents lived in Brentwood and I had aunts and uncles in Harold Park, so this weirdness on the A12 was the best way to get back whenever we were visiting.
(I'm sure it used to be even tighter when I was as a kid but I think they rearranged it later.)
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Saintfield, I occasionally see cars attempt to turn 180 up Comber Street https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.46653 ... ?entry=ttu though it's uncommon as both roads are headed the same direction, if they needed this way they might have turned through the town. Usually ends up a small 3 point turn.
The 270-degree bend on the right hand edge there is interesting, I don't know another road having anything like that, although some railways do so to gain/lose height.
Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 08:22
Madrepore Road, Torquay, one way downhill. The uphill equivalent is the straight and very steep Stentifords Hill Road
WHBM wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:34
A longstanding favourite is this road on the north coast of Majorca, which I always like to take the hire car down when visiting https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palma ... ?entry=ttu
The 270-degree bend on the right hand edge there is interesting, I don't know another road having anything like that, although some railways do so to gain/lose height.
Another "all the way round" junction is on New Clearwater Bay Road in Hong Kong. I used to catch the bus along that route.
jgharston wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 06:55
Another "all the way round" junction is on New Clearwater Bay Road in Hong Kong. I used to catch the bus along that route.
