Featured New Owner With Plans For The Cat & Fiddle Pub

Saw the title and thought it was going to be your new venture!!

 

Would be good if they were able to have it as a bunk house too

 

Interesting. Trouble with the Cat and Fiddle road is it's a bit bleak out of season. So getting sustained year round trade would be a problem. It's fairly local to me but it's not somewhere i'd go between say October and the end of March. Unless........

 

Its been popular with trail riders in the past - assuming there are still routes legally ride-able the winter season may be OK too ! Main gripe I have over there is the average speed cameras spoiling the landscape and my fun ! Nice in surrounding areas too though - Bakewell Matlock etc..

 

Would it be asking too much to take down the SPECS cameras while he's at it.........

 

We stopped opposite the Cat and Fiddle pub on the 2016 GMU rideout that I lead.

Over the years the A537 has had a reputation of being a very dangerous road with many fatalities, like it or not the cameras are there because of idiots or people riding/driving above their capabilities.

 

Twas a good place before camaras

 

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

 

First time Cat & Fiddle for me today.
Some of the corner road surface is shockingly bad, wondering if this is the new safety technique to slow ppl down?
Some stretches it feels like there’s too many cameras and 50 is unjustified - straight, open views, no junctions. NSL (even with cameras) would be more realistic. The real twisters can still be enjoyed enough with 50 limit.

 

That looks like an awesome place mate. Would love to visit that.

 

Funny you should resurrect this thread today. I've got a job in Cheshire tomorrow and was thinking of coming back over Cat & Fiddle. Sadly not on the bike but hey ho-a third class ride is still better than a first class walk, as my grandad liked to say. Still enjoy the views

 

Average speed limits in parts now be careful

 

Yep sadly that is so, although you'd have a job reading the number plate on my never washed cage

 

I would love to know if it's open or not. Just out of curiosity.

 

If I do come back that way I'd be calling in, don't worry. Used to be a good craic in the warmer months. Be nice to see it get sorted.

 

It was still a great day out tho' Tiglet, I remember it well. Tested all my wet weather gear too !!!

 

Used to be a regular haunt of mine and a buddy about 20 years ago on a summer evening.

We would sit outside having a pint and guys would ride like stink from Macclesfield up to the C&F turn round on the front of the pub and hammer off back down to Macc this would happen all evening long.
Every now and again there would be a lull in the proceedings and then you’d hear the sirens, man down.

Know wonder the cameras were installed.

 

Well, not good.





What with the Hartside burning down, we may run short of iconic meets. Smashing run home though, personally l prefer the A53 between Buxton and Leek. I can name loads of these hills from my hiking head

Can see my favourites in the distance, Parkhouse and Chrome Hill.



So that place looks a bit doomed to me. Here's hoping though.