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Was wondering when someone would identify this one! A personal favorite, and really ideal for a well-tuned MINI! Have had lots of fun "educating" enthusiastic drivers of Vettes, sleeper Volvos, and even Lotus Elises on this darling ribbon of paved nirvana!

MANY THUMBS UP on this one - do it if you ever can. Be advised that a reconnaissance run is always advisable before trying it at any sort of speed... Makes it just that much more fun anyway: Recon run in one direction; pull a 180 when the twisty stuff runs out; head back the other way; rinse & repeat as desired!

_Dave_

edit - PS: The southern end is where the twisties get really fiddly, and if you start from the North, it's like ending a ski run with moguls! The rythm of the turns just gets better and better! Heading North is still fun, but you hit the trickiest stuff first... Just sayin'
2nd edit - PPS: The whole run described is fun, but my unbridled enthusiasm and commentary is focused only on CA 229, the section between markers B and C as presented in the original post.

 

Highway 229 is the best 5 mile twisty I have ever run. Very unique, like ski moguls. For MTTS (MINI takes the States) in August 2006, we took a group of MINIs on 229 and there was a lot of smiles and grins when we stopped at the end just before Highway 58!! :cornut: Remember that Dave?

 

Craig, I will cherish that memory forever! Made an in-car video, but the memory stick ran out just as we were hitting the "moguls"... Have to dig that up and post on You Tube sometime...

_Dave_

 

And here's the link to the video:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9Rda3LPtg[/ame]

Apologies for the many issues this video has, including: shakycam, pixelation, a crack in my windshield, low speed due to passenger considerations, etc.

_Dave_

 

Dave -
That was great - really brings back some good memories of MTTS 2006. I have a new Go Pro Hero camera, maybe we'll get some new footage of 229 on the way up to the Monterey Motorsports Reunion in August.

 

Thanks for fixing the link Nate! This was my first-ever YouTube upload...

Craig, a decent video of 229 would be awesome. I feel bad about mine, but it's better than nothing...

_Dave_

 

Haven't been on 229, a little out of my area of travel, but North of there a bit is 198, San Lucas to Coalinga. Not as varied and not a loop, but not well traveled either and worth a look I think. Have not done this in anything other than an empty semi, but did it many times and always tried to beat my best time. Same as 20, Willits to Ft. Bragg. The fun is all relative ie, "run what ya brung."

 

KPH -
I have been on both Highway 198 and Highway 20 with my MINI and they are both very good twisty roads. But Highway 229 is unique - if you are ever in the Atascadero area you need to run it. :wink:

 

CFMINI-
You, my friend, are devoted. Hwy 20 is out of the way from everywhere. I was paid to go there! 229 will be highlighted on the map.

 

When you run Hwy 20 south from Clear Lake be sure and take Hwy 16 to i-505, instead of staying on Hwy 20 all the way to Williams @i-5.