A blanket 50 mph limit applies to the entire route and is regularly speed-trapped these days by mobile radar units.
Also monitored by police bikes and cars (some marked, some unmarked) and occasionally by helicopter.
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COMMON HAZARDS :
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- Vehicles coming at you on the wrong side of the road
- Arriving at recent crash site(s)
- Diesel spills (sometimes alleged to be deliberate local sabotage !)
- Random grit dropped on the road by various trucks
- Sheep
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In spite of all this, it is one of THE best motorcycling roads in England ! It is one of my local routes and I love it - even though I crashed recently on "The Balcony". Hey ho.
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The Cat and Fiddle is officially the most dangerous stretch of road in England.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!
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