Bike Route 2 and Skateboard Route 1
This is bike route 2. Just as fast but all on pavement and IMHO twice as dangerous except for the death corner on route 1. This route is Very bad for pedestrians.
Start at the top of Ryal Walk, pedal like crazy al the way. Hill starts to flatten out around the area where Byrness Close and Ryal Walk cross. Keep peddling uphill towards the shops. Tear past the entrance to the infants school and hurtle past the mail box, keeping it on the right of you. Approach the top of the Pyrry bank and apply read breaks whilst turning skidding into the bank itself, foot down is a sissy option……. storm down the Pyrry bank and do a left or right skid at the bottom onto the tarmac. Voila – route 2 completed. Skid zone at the top of the Pyrry bank is marked in a red crescent. This ropute is more exciting than route 1 because of the dangers of pedestrians and also because the route itself is much narrower with houses on both sides almost all the way.
Skateboarding this same route is equally exhilarating BUT you can only get as far as the first flat bit (Byrness/Ryal crossing) before you run out of steam
As I said, there was an extension to this route that the Master does not see fit to mention...once you 'hurtled past the red post box' you ignored the Pyramid ramp and went straight on, down a dirt track across the field to the right(as you hurtled)of Dr Raj's surgery, then bombing on onto the Reestones Placeside slip road between the cube shaped flat block and the garages-this was a very dangerous part of the ride, as you were blind to any cars coming out from Reestones garages to the right-at this point you turned sharp left down the slip road then right down Hazeldene Ave main road, hurtling on and on to the red danger corner at the very bottom at Gunnerstone then straight on off the main road down another dirt track NW with Hillsview School on the right , a great ride until the engine like collapsed(kashl kashl) somewhere near where Kingston Park Metro station is now as the land leveled out.....
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