We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.
Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.
Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.
To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home
Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
These 46 comments are related to the topic:
Been to the Lake district today.
Been to the Lake district today.
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 46
|
By:
Ha ha ha! There's a load of gouges on that little rise at the foot of the hairpin near the top where people have overcked it and bottomed out! Did you?
The A'side-Kirkstone road ("the Struggle" as it's known locally) is a beast of a climb - steep straight from the turning off the main road in Ambleside (all the cars coming down reeking of brakes or is it clutches) - levels very briefly after about 10 minutes - then a long, steepening drag - then that little twisty descent and then the kier: a couple of seriously steep hairpins and a longslope to the top to finish your legs off. Chapel Stile - Kirkstone in just under 40 minutes - wished I hadn't smoke for 12 years! I could have been in the Tour de France.  |
|
By:
Ha ha ha! There's a load of gouges on that little rise at the foot of the hairpin near the top where people have overcked it and bottomed out! Did you?
How very dare you  I drive every pass at least twice before I speed over it.  I raced my mate over Hardknott and Wrynose passes many years ago. I was in a Mini Metro and he was in a Vauxhall Cavalier. He doesn't race that well, but he thinks he does. I gave him a two minute start and caught him before the top of Wrynose. I took him back over as my passenger in the same Metro in mild rain the year after.  When I stopped the brakes weres steaming and his knuckles went white gripping the dashboard. |
|
By:
I'll be looking out for nutters in Metro's when I'm trying to finish the Fred! Tbh, it's so bloody hard that there could be Sherman tank heading straight for me and I wouldn't notice.
As teenagers, me and some mates borrowed one of their dads' Ford Granadas and went up and over the passes a few tmes taking it turns to sunroof surf. The car was so long he had to wheelspin it round the hairpins - all good fun! |
|
By:
That's why I never took my Jaguar up there.
|
|
By:
You never mentioned your jag before.
|
|
By:
nice to see jack back
must be his birthday or sumfink |
|
By:
It is, just
|