29-01-12, 10:09 AM
I've not ridden either road, but lack of knowledge/experience of a particualar road doesn't seem to be stopping anybody esle from commenting, so here goes.
It doesn't seem appropriate, at all, to be comparing the Dragon with (say) a 37 mile stretch on a small island. One is a very fast racetrack, with some longish straights, that absolutely, you need massive cajones to ride at high speed. The other is more of a ballet, it doesn't look as though the speeds ever get that high, there's barely a straight on that 11 miles, you're flicking from one side of the tyres to the other with no respite at all.
Which one would I rather go ride? That'll be the Dragon, thanks. I'm surpised they haven't banned the big trucks from it though.
Now that road Fort William - Ardnamurchan, that one I have done, and it is a peach
It doesn't seem appropriate, at all, to be comparing the Dragon with (say) a 37 mile stretch on a small island. One is a very fast racetrack, with some longish straights, that absolutely, you need massive cajones to ride at high speed. The other is more of a ballet, it doesn't look as though the speeds ever get that high, there's barely a straight on that 11 miles, you're flicking from one side of the tyres to the other with no respite at all.
Which one would I rather go ride? That'll be the Dragon, thanks. I'm surpised they haven't banned the big trucks from it though.
Now that road Fort William - Ardnamurchan, that one I have done, and it is a peach