Best Biking Roads The Cat and Fiddle uncut Macclesfield to Buxton on a Yamaha MT10
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Filmed in 4K, the full Cat & Fiddle run including a stop at the newly re-opened Cat & Fiddle pub. A fantastic road, a former most dangerous road in the UK, it has some amazing views and some less than professional driving by an 8 wheel tipper truck.
The pub is open for business, currently outside seating only. Beware they have an ANPR camera in their car park and if you drive in there you will need to sign in on the I pad in the shop with your registration details. This will put some customers off in my opinion, please let me know what you think in the comments below.
All roads are great biker roads if the rider is quite happy with a 50mph limit or an average of, personally I don't mind as I think it's fast enough to be able to enjoy the scenery and soak up the surroundings. I'm more often than not a Yorkshire Dales rider and 50 mph is more than enough for me there. I've not ridden that Cat n Fiddle road for many a year, but when I did it was a great ride down to Matlock Bath. Yeah I really enjoy your content, or the quality footage both you and Carol make when your out together. Thanks for sharing your great rides with us 👍🏻
We enjoy most roads but try to keep off motorways. Carol should be with me on the next couple if ride outs and we thank everyone who watches. Cheers
Another good video really enjoyed that, haven’t done that road for awhile , personally I think the average speed cameras on that road are a good thing , I remember how all you heard was the RTA s that happened before the cameras , that and the majority of riders can’t ride it faster than 50 without crashing so the cameras take the pressure off , making it a more enjoyable road for the masses 😎👌🇬🇧🏍🇬🇧 keep up the good work, stay safe
I'm not sure about the cameras, I do think a few idiots spoil it for the majority.
Think the appalling casually rate forced the authorities hand.
As always appreciate you stopping by the channel and take care.
Hey Banditmanuk,
Hope all is good your way.
Gorgeous roads! One day when I am over on your side of the pond I will have to ride it!
Thanks for the ride,
Cheers and safe riding!
All is good here in the UK thanks. Hope its all good over your side of the water? Plenty of great roads here, hope you can make it over some time. Just remember we ride on the correct side of the road here😉😉
Thanks for calling by the channel, ride safe and take care
Some of those camera angles were exceptional. As was the road and scenery. Thoroughly enjoyable experience 👌🏼
Oh, and the Yammy is a beast 😍
You say all the right things 👍 As you know everything looks better when the sun is out.
All from the heart my friend 😊 Yep, sunshine certainly helps 😎
Great run out Richard! Last time we were there it was closed and boarded up 🙁 good to see it open again - loving the 360 footage! 😀👍
Good to see the pub reopen, not sure how welcoming the camera in the car park is but the coffee and cake were good.
Looking forward to seeing how you get on with your 360 👍
Finally catching up with some of the videos in my Watch Later list. What a great road, and the lower limit means you can enjoy the scenery more serenely 👍
Its still a great road and can certainly be enjoyed at the lower speed. Unfortunately years ago it gained the unfortunate title of most dangerous UK road (it's not dangerous if ridden sensibly) the bike death stats forced action to be taken with the cameras. Nice to hear I'm on someone's watch later list, it's one of the rare occasions I'm out unsupervised on my own 😉
@@Banditmanuk 🤣
Great video Banditmanuk, accurate and informative as always 🏍👍
Cheers and thanks for watching
I need to take the TL's up there.
You are more than welcome up here.
Fantastic footage and the MT sounds great 👍
Thanks very much, stock exhaust on the MT10 as well👍
It's great to see you back on the bike again 🏍️ very enjoyable.
Thanks and appreciate you watching
Nice video Richard liking the 360 stuff, great road that one fella. 👍
Thanks Steve 👍 Good to hear from you.
Was there always as many cameras in the Cat and Fiddle ? I could swear there's way more
They've had a few goes at making the camera system work properly. Spent about a million pounds! When first installed in 2011 there were loads of short cuts not covered by the cameras. On another vid I've recently seen posted on a Panigale (fast) he states the cameras don't work from Macclesfield to the Cat and Fiddle pub. No idea if this is true.
Pre camera it certainly was the place to open up a superbike...... not that I condone law breaking in any way.
Glad I did it when you could do a hundred miles an hour. Pub looks more like a garden centre now.
Yep, like everything else these days the Health and Safety folks think they know best. Sadly I also remember the pub as a pub with a fire and real ale.
Still a scenic run but you need to head to Spain now to properly enjoy riding decent roads without speed cameras. Thanks for watching anyway
Ridden that road twice whilst doing the National Rally, first time it was thick fog, second time it was dark so it didn't have to be fast to be exciting.
Well at least you've seen the view on a sunny day now 😎 Thanks for watching
What a ridiculous set up for the parking area. Great ride mate :)
Yep, definitely an unfriendly welcome to the pub but still an enjoyable ride.
I used to run this route on my RD400 back in 1981-82 . . . that was a great bike in the twisties - could beat the 1000 cc bikes. I'm not sure how many average speed cams there are but if you stop for 5 mins that should help reduce the average . . . .which you can make up for when moving!
I had my RD250LC 81 to 82, wasn't bad in the twisties either. Still on a Yam 40 years later. There is a rumour that not all the cameras are working but I don't feel like testing it.
Controversial comment I know but I rode it last year, living locally it is a route I have ridden a lot in the past in pre speed camera days. I have to say its not too bad, and to be honest in the past it was pure madness, in fact I stopped riding it because of the lunatic fringe that used to ride the pass in the 1990's.If you take it as a lovely scenic view its fine.Nice video thanks.
I agree really. Don't like the cameras but some riders just went crazy over there so something had to be done. Thanks for watching
Nice video ,always enjoy your content, keep it up.
Will you be riding and hopefully filming your local Distinguished Gentlemens Ride this year?
Thanks for the kind words, Carol and I already have a couple of joint rides filmed so hopefully more to come soon. Unsure yet about the distinguished gentlemens ride but I try to post news and plans on my facebook.com/114812633257230/posts/537729757632180/
Lost count of the number of times I've ridden it, not so much recently due to the Gestapo stepping up anti-biker missions if you know what I mean...oh you noticed the revenue cameras LOL! That truck driver is a good example of why Traffic Police should be on the road and revenue cameras removed. Nice video many thanks.
Nice to hear from you Paul, on the road to recovery I hope🤞. I'm no fan of the cameras but the trouble was the stats. Too many riders riding too fast and running out talent.
I would prefer to see more police and less cameras but don't see them taking them down...... cost best part of a million to install!
@@Banditmanuk I have been better I must admit! Still haven't the strength to ride but am getting there.............slowly. Sods Law states it will be *issing down when I think I can do it LOL! I would love to help remove the cameras if anyone knows a source of small nuclear devices?? 😍
That was another good one and I only watched it to see if I was on it! Not impressed with one of tipper colleagues driving on wrong side of double white lines there. The speed cameras have just finished having a makeover costing many hundreds of thousands of pounds and nearly two years worth of work as some did not work properly. A forewarning though now as the council are going to spend around a million pounds on each of two local roads the Via Gellia and The long Hill between Whaley Bridge and Buxton, this is mainly cycle safety initiatives but they are installing average speed cameras on that one just like the Cat and Fiddle. Now as in the nursery rhyme, Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle...with the pub at 3.01 The Setter Dog, could be the little dog laughed? The old transport cafe at 8.01 used to be called The Dish and the Spoon, all that grassy area in front was lorry parking. All we are missing is a cow jumping over the moon! Ride safe.
Yep, that waggon driver was on the racing line 😉
I'm no fan of average speed cameras but years past some riders were doing crazy speeds over the Cat and Fiddle. I guess it was enviable the authorities would take action.
Personally I wish the council budget could go to repairing the appalling road surfaces rather than new cameras.
Didn't realise they were open yet. They are going mad for fining and clamping people in the car park tho, which is rather like biting the hand that feeds them!
Great road though 👌 even with average speed cam...
It's the people who park there all day and don't buy much blocking people who want to buy
I live over in Macclesfield and yes the cat +fiddle is a good road unfortunately you get a hell of a lot of what you shown on you video which is vehicles taking corners on the wrong side of the road I've had this happen on a few occasions its bloody terrifying so i don't use that road unless i have know choice
I was a bit shocked to see a so called professional driver cut the corners like they did. I know we bikers haven't got the greatest record for safe riding there but I certainly wouldn't want to meet someone head on.
Its still a lovely area, thanks for watching and take care.
completely agree the truck was terrible, but bikes coming towards you on completely the wrong line so that they are effectively leaning over on to your side of the road.
@@eforeman7499 I'm not a spokesman for all bikers, hopefully what we do is safe and reasonable on this channel.
Some riders do ride dangerously and too fast, unfortunately it can all end very badly.
2 years have passed I know. That is typical of a tipper driver going over the double white lines and that driver was totally in the wrong but…..there’s always a but, but in his or her defence he or she will most certainly be fully loaded so cutting the corners is saving on diesel, brake & tyre ware. Keeping up momentum and power is key when you’re driving a fully loaded wagon, the other point I’ll make is that the driver sits so high up that he or she can see if there’s owt coming in the opposite direction and only a really stupid driver, HGV or otherwise would cut a corner if they couldn’t see if there’s anything coming towards him or her, if that was a police bike behind that driver then he or she would be driving a lot more carefully. That said I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video Banditmanuk even though it’s 2 years old. Safe riding and driving folks. _ _🚛_ _🏍️_ _
Yeah, amazing road, if amazing includes average speed zones where cars drive up your arsehole! It's probably a great road to go on a scooter or 125cc.
Really interesting fact, if you come down the cat and fiddle your less than 2 hours away from the amazing roads of Wales!!! 👍🤣🤣🤣
No it's not as good as it was. So many bikers killed themselves there it was inevitable that something had to be done.
Luckily many of us can still appreciate the surroundings and enjoy riding the road.
The gradual creep of cameras is also hitting Wales, there was a load of new ones near the horse shoe pass.
Want some proper decent riding then head to Spain.
Tipper truck crossing double white lines like he’s on a race track. I’m sure I’ve met that twat before coming towards me over the Peak District. If you’re not familiar with the roads in this area for gods sake beware of the tipper and tanker trucks they are everywhere with all those quarry’s.
Think the tipper was the worst example of driving by a so called professional driver that I've ever seen.
@@Banditmanuk Professional driver only means he gets paid unfortunately, at least you had the brains to wait for a safe overtake, I've seen plenty of riders that would have tried a risky overtake before the bend. No room for errors on the cat and fiddle. Ride safe .
It would appear neither the bobbys or the cat and fiddle want bikers there... job done ✅ I’ll stay away Nice Vid with the 360
Think the pub would rather sell it's £100.00 bottles of whisky to the odd punter than cater for bikers. That camera in the car park is definitely not welcoming! Probably not a best biking road?? But thanks for watching cheers.
Wait a minute, are those forward facing speed cameras?
@@ralphbeardmore9738 I'm afraid they point both ways. Definitely designed with motorcycles in mind as they were the bulk of the statistics prior to installation.
Seein that lorry was mad, I get they have a good view of the road, but that was stupid.... maybe they were trying to average 50mph! :D
Yes he still wasn't far behind me once I reached the pub at the top.
@@Banditmanuk aye and went past you there at a wedge of pace
Is it possible to ride this road on a 125cc?
Absolutely yes. Would be fun trying to keep the momentum up around the corners and there's little chance you could trigger the average speed camera. Go for it, it's a beautiful ride. Thanks for watching
Done it loads of times on Honda rebel 125
It’s nice to see that amazing countryside again. I’m jealous of all your cameras! 🤣 Nice video 😁👍
Thanks Phil, if there was one camera I really thought worthy of buying its the Insta 360 One X2. Not for the main vlog camera but for all the other stuff. Battery life is way, way better than my Hero 7.
@@Banditmanuk Thanks for letting me know. A few of my Instagram friends have just bought the insta 360, the quality looks great! 😁
Thanks. Nice video, slow but that's clearly out of your control. I'm going on Monday to enjoy the views. 😬👍
Monday will definitely be better for a run over. Trouble is when it's busy lots of drivers go well below the limit 'just to be safe' which makes riding over tedious.
If you remember they are average speed cameras, if you are doing below the limit in the bends you can make it back on the straights 😉
Beautiful area, its worth stopping by the Goyt valley while in the area.
Unfortunately in the vid I'm going the GPS speed limit!
Thanks for watching, cheers
Thanks for this complete road vid. I did ask the staff in the Distillery part if there was anywhere to sit down & she said no? Clearly there was as you pointed the small seating area at the back. Will check it out next time. Thanks, great alternating footage, I know editing is a chore but great when you post vids like this 👍
No problem, it's normally the Mrs and myself doing the vids. Just for fun and mostly just as a record of where we've been. Getting to enjoy the editing now, cutting more and more out and hopefully getting decent bike to bike audio.
Keep going with your vids and best wishes. Richard 👍
@@Banditmanuk Thanks bud, but you say you're enjoying doing the editing! I'll let you come & do mine 😂. Actually, I think I need to upgrade my lap top as the quality of footage now on GoPro's, Insta 360's etc is advancing all the time. I'll check out that other cafe you mentioned when next up there, thanks for this information. Have a great & safe motorbiking year, Daz 👍😁🏍
Road this roads more than most
Reasonably local for us so been over a good number of times myself.
Thanks for watching
Great ride! Thank you for sharing.
No problem, appreciate you watching 🙏
Great video 👍🏍
Thanks John, appreciate you watching. 🙏
Blast! Was getting geared up today to be doing the Cat & Fiddle road with my dad today and was going to make a motovlog of it!!! Never seen tractors up there either 🚜🚜
Love the road itself personally, the otherworldly feel it has at its peak near the pub is awesome, and obviously keeping the speed down on the Deauville isn't particularly difficult 🤣
Your sticker has already made the journey 🤣🤣 If you've not done it yet its worth checking out the Goyte Valley by the Errwood reservoir then follow the small road by the water and eventually come out at that little road I pointed out as I left the Cat and Fiddle pub.
I'm sure you and your dad could put your own spin on whatever you film. Cheers and take care.
@@Banditmanuk I think I have done the Goyte Valley before after you did some drone action at the resevoir, I'm thinking it might make a good letter G nevertheless 😉