Reasons to Visit Yorkshire in your car

[Zak33]

Oh, people...what a place

Words can't explain the sheer excitement of realising that, while the weather was dire, the roads were empty.

Feb 2004 was therfore, for me and Sair, a time of driving about, visiting castles and waterfalls, walking i n the howling winds and driving rain..

and driving ... a lot.

Now it has to be said here and now, that I was not in a VX220, sadly.

I had a very humble Zafira 2.0 DTi with 100 bhp.....but gallons of torque. It has the kind of "dont pack, just chuck everything in" size that suits me on holidays. Wet coats, boots, the lot...all in.

And they drive pretty well...its not an MX5 or a Ford Racing Puma, but its OK

And the scenery.......

North Yorkshire has big Dales, huge Moors and lots of roads with noone except sheep!

So....as it was too rainy to do any photography properly I convinced Sair to use her Fuji F700 to take a few vids.http://www.fuji.co.uk/digital/camera...eras/range.php

30fps and mono sound. It does OK.

So with 128 mb card installed and 320x240 resolution chosen, we had less than 4 minutes of film-age without going back to base and uploading.

We did OK....few deletions but otherwise......pretty good.

So, the route.....from Swaledale, we went up and over (going south) Buttertubs pass, where the wind was SO STRONG I thought I'd done a wheel bearing, but it was the roof rails humming

This pass has steel stanchions be the road edge and high tension steel cables between...but they are LOW....so you dont go too fast.....its a steep drop...and it goes WAY DOWN.

Then, the other side, having driven through some amazing rain storms and clouds,down to Hawes (rope maker Skii, rope maker )

Then we went to Askrigg (James Herriot town, the vet program and books from the 70's and 80's) down a side road, and back over the moors.and we are talking up 1 in 4.....the diesel is designed for this tho.

and as we crested the top of the moor....I convinced Sair to film a few longer sections, downhill, so that the loyal following of Hexus could see the kind of divine roads. You gotta visit people...just gotta.

Note: never went over the speed limit and some of the drop-offs from the edge of the road are not funny, so you gotta go canny.

You can see where it got bumpy cos Sair films the tax disk holder, then the sunvisor, and back to the tax disk holder, in a split second

And then....after some just fantastic smooth, twisty roads.....



you just gotta haven't you.....?



you gotta find a water splash


So we did.

and that night Sair, being a star, whacked it all into her MSI Hermes and got Moviemaker going.....and here ya go.

Enjoy

13.5 mb Media Player Movie

[5lab]

wb mate

scotlands better imo, but yorkshires still good i wouldnt have said judging by the video that they were nessesarily 'smooth' roads, seems alot of jolting going on there.. shame you couldnt have more of a drivers car too.. even an ashtray woudl have been better than that.. oh well.. glad ya had fun

[XTR]

Wicked mate

Nicely edited too... good one Sair!



But...... that's not a water splash!!! that's a small puddle. what ya need is the River Wear. The ford at Stanhope.

[Angus]

cool

who is the backing music??

[XTR]

cool

who is the backing music??

In the Credits at the end it says..... Music: Mew

[Lowe]

Great vid Zak, some top roads. Wonder if they do Optimax anywhere near.

[Vimeous]

Zak, wonderfull stuff.
Top marks to Sair for not only keeping the camera on track but captiuring that all important moment of rallying joy, the water splash

Makes me wonder ..... go for the scenery?
Or
4wd, compliant suspension setup, grippy tyres and some monster stoppers

[XTR]

This pass has steel stanchions be the road edge and high tension steel cables between...but they are LOW....so you dont go too fast.....its a steep drop...and it goes WAY DOWN.

Random question...

These high tension steel cables are often found on motorways instead of crash barriers.... ya ever seen a car plowed into one before?


The car gets trashed! its 3 cables... 1 goes underneath the car. 2 go over the bonnet. They cut into the door posts. TRASHED!


I've seen an MG ZR have a fight with them before.. and lets just say... the ZR lost. KNACKERED!

[5lab]

thats true but they are very good from a safety point of view. like a normal barrier they stop the car going past them, but they also stop the car bouncing back into the carrigeway it came from, which traditional barriers tend not to do (so basically you're thrown sideways into 70mph traffic...)

[Capt Doufos]

Encounted roads like that in the Lake District. Always good fun.

[Zak33]

you liked the Music huh?

Mew.....top top band....

And Sair did good huh? She is a brave lass

[TechnoKitty]

Yup, one of the reasons I love living up here, you don't have to go too far for a cool driving experience

[Zak33]

Techno....you are a lucky person.....all except the appalling flooding

I saw SO MUCH FLOODING


But roads....to die for...and die ON...so you gotta go steady peeps

[TiG]

Damn that movie rocks, and I'm not sure I want to ask this question but those videos seem to show you going fast, or at least it feels fast. what speed are you doing in some of those shots?.

And Sair deserves an award, its well put together, the music rocks too, Its save permanently as its a great stress relief to watch that for a few minutes

TiG

[Allen]

Reasons to Visit Yorkshire in your car

There are some then?

[Zak33]

Tigster...never broke a law.....the long downhill section on the narrow road before it cuts to the watersplash sections was fastest but still not rocket speed.

Trying to drive smoothly enough for her to not swallow the camera was hard as it was....poor lass got chucked around on the ones we deleted...and I reversed back up for over a mile, flat out, trying to find a point to restart recording....now THAT was fast...