Favourite track ridden... Why ?

[weeksy]

So which is your favourite track and why...

For me, i'm going for Portimao. Location, climate, elevations, corners, facilities.... All just incredible... It's an absolutley fab track to ride.

Lots of ace memories of adventures there.

[KungFooBob]

Cadwell, cos it's the best.

I've a sneaky feeling that if I ever manage to ride a bike at Laguna Seca that might change.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Cadwell, Lydden is second.

[weeksy]

Cadwell, Lydden is second.

lol Lydden :d

[KungFooBob]

I think the sea of angles is my 2nd fave.

Lydden is shite in almost every respect, it's on a par with Darley Moor!

[weeksy]

I think the sea of angles is my 2nd fave.

It's one place i've not ridden that arguably i should've. went there once but the weekend didn't quite work out and i didn't ride. Looks good fun though.

[Noggin]

I loved Cadwell from the first time. Then really loved Portimao, even though I crashed and only rode two days out of four! I feel like Portimao is Cadwell on steroids

I loved Anglesey the one time I went, really wanted to go back and find out if it was as much fun for a whole day


Equally, I do really like Mallory as well. Ok, I haven't found a track I don't like!! But Cadwell and Portimao are my favourites

[KungFooBob]

I think the sea of angles is my 2nd fave.

It's one place i've not ridden that arguably i should've. went there once but the weekend didn't quite work out and i didn't ride. Looks good fun though.

I've been three times, in glorious sunshine. I can imagine it's an awful place to be when it's windy and rainy. Where as Cadwell is quite good fun in the rain.

[KungFooBob]

Mallory is dull as ditch water

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Cadwell, Lydden is second.

lol Lydden :d

It's fun, I've realised I'm supposed to have said why, and looking at my choices I'm going to say that I prefer a narrow twisty track, I've done Donington a couple of times and I don't like it, I'm not brave enough to take the wide bends as fast as they can be taken and end up feeling a bit frustrated, Snetterton is similar, but I've ridden there so many times that I know exactly how fast I can take the bends (faster than I'm brave enough to go these days).

Olivers Mount is also fun but it's really narrow, and the fast bits are scary.

I've been to Laguna Seca, not ridden it, it's huge, the drop down the Corkscrew is impressive, the hill going up to it is a long walk.

Yorick will be along in a little while to reminisce about Carnaby and Flookburgh, I raced at West Raynham which was another featureless airfield track marked out with cones.

[KungFooBob]

You'd like Three Sisters, it's flippin' aces on a little bike.

[Noggin]

Mallory is dull as ditch water

I've never found that (equally, I'm not as fast as most TBF!) but it's so twisty and there's a bit of up and down. Yes it's tiny, so I supposed someone more experienced would get bored. But I did my first couple TDs there - on a Blackbird! The others there were all on litre bikes and it was just so much fun! little bits that could catch you out completely if not set up right and some places ridiculously fast (for me!) but technical.

Never understood out it comes across as boring! LOL There's hardly anything straight there & what is straight is so short it's over in a sec! (You can tell I can't ride fast in a straight line! All the places I could gain on people were places 'most' people are slower - corners and technical twisty bits! )

[Jody]

For me it has to be Cadwel Park. Because it has a jump !

Plus I love any excuse to show these pictures (again)

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

You'd like Three Sisters, it's flippin' aces on a little bike.

A friend of mine lives in Warrington and loves it, they have some sort of "Time Attack" thing there that he regularly does on a CRM250 with Supermoto wheels.
I did Lydden on my Husky 610, it was a really fun track day, I don't think I'd have enjoyed it on a sports bike, I'm tempted to get another SM just for track days, though my 1170 Kawasaki pretty much rides like a huge SM.

[porter_jamie]

Caldwell without the chicane as it was my local and I used to do ok, I suppose. 1.42 on my 60hp.mono
Mallory, pre chicane (not the bus stop) as the esses were a big balls scary corner. I managed to do Gerrards on the stop in top gear, after a small lift to get it turned on slicks.
Snet, pre all the new stuff. Holding it on the stop round the bomb hole and stuffing it into Coram was epic. I think the end of Coram has changed now, I dunno.
Pembrey, I remember working up to doing the kink in the back straight without lifting. That was a bit scary but man I could gain 2 bike lengths every lap there.
I'm far too old and fat to even consider a track day now sadly

[weeksy]

I'm far too old and fat to even consider a track day now sadly

@porter_jamie say what now ?

[porter_jamie]

i can barely reach to tie my shoes!

[weeksy]

i can barely reach to tie my shoes!

boots are easier

[KungFooBob]

You need some of those new Sketchers slipons.

I was quite shocked that no one had thought of slip-on footware before.

[Rockburner]

I guess my "favourite" would be Mallory (old Mallory), but only really because I went there more than anywhere else, so I learnt where I could be faster there, more than anywhere else.

Rockingham inner was good fun (if a touch dull, turn right, turn right, turn right, turn right, turn right, turn left, tun left turn left turn left, hairpin, straight, and repeat.)

Cadwell definitely suits bigger bikes than I ever rode on track, I can see why people live it.

Silverstone was just a wasteland of tarmac, and I only rode it with the stupid "complex" at the end of the lap that got tighter and tighter.

Anglsey is fun, wouldn't have minded more time there.

Donnington was good fun, but again suits bigger bikes than I ever rode. Always impressive to watch Couchy and Yorick doing their stuff there, and Rocket Ron with the obligatory pillion laying waste to everyone