Featured New Owner With Plans For The Cat & Fiddle Pub

Pegscraper · Apr 5, 2021

Wow, there's a trip down amnesia lane! Not been up there for some years now, the cameras killed it for me. Back in the early 90's we were up there most weekends and fine Summer evenings doing the Macclesfield, Cat & Fiddle, A54 Bosley loop. It got some very bad press with frequent fatal accidents so I guess it was inevitable that some form of permanent policing would emerge. Prior to the fixed cameras the Police would sometimes use a spotter aircraft in radio contact with bike cops on the ground to pick off those who were 'racing" It was a favourite route of some of the biking magazines when testing new bikes.
We did stop at the pub ccasionally but it was the route itself which drew us up there.

Sandi T · Apr 6, 2021

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It still is a good ride, tho I agree it was better before the cash cams went in but when the road is categorised as having the most crashes and fatalities in Britain the authorities had to act. Thanks to all the TT wannabies going berserk and even filming their own accidents so spectacularly they are the ones who have spoiled it for the rest of us. I was up there a couple of weeks ago riding it from Buxton to Macclesfield and this lad on a Repsol blade rode past the queue of traffic and me to go over the stop line on a red light at the last set of lights before joining the Cat then set off like he was starting a race only to slow down for the first camera. I bimbled off and kept my speedo never reading more than 60 cos the corners are tight and your speed drops to about 35 on some of them and guess who was right in front of me by the time we got to Macc. I think I only used the brakes four times on the whole run, just let the bike roll into the turn and used the gears.
Be nice to have the pub open again tho
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The TT wannabes film their own accidents, @Yorkshireman?? I wonder if it's related to posting on YouTube or Instagram or some such thing. What unbelievably crazy behavior. And of course it winds up ruining it for others.

Pegscraper · Apr 6, 2021

I remember this being on TV at the time. Checkout the size of the camera!

pistonbroke · Apr 6, 2021

I used to go cat and fiddle when I lived in sheffield but there was so much knobhead riding we gave up and went elsewhere in the end.

no cure for stupid.......