Australia's best motorcycle roads. Bells line of road.

Bells Line of Road (The Blue Mountains) NSW.






After the Putty Road one option is to head west via this road to Lithgow and then make you way to the Snowy Mountians region. My suggestion is try via Bathurst, Cowra, then Lachlan valley h-way, and via Harden on to Tumut - excellent scenery and not unpleasant road. I will post more about this route elsewhere.

So leaving the putty you may have bypassed Windsor and be ring across some mostly umarked roads for awhile until you join this road just before Kurrajong. A nice steep climb then up to the plateau, however a speed camera spoils the fun a bit. At the top a nice lookout awaits, I could just make out some highrises of Sydney even on a cloudy/hazy morning so I imagine the view on a clear day would be superb.


Now you will ride along a scenic but very touristy section of the road that will no doubt have a bit of traffic as well. Then further both of these thin out and you will find yourself on top of the ridges of the Blue Mountains. Here it all comes together, the road and curves are terrific and so is the spectacular scenery. A wonderful riding experience - however word of warning for QLD riders to bring your warm gear, anywhere south of Cessnock the temperature drop in high country is much more dramatic than in our sub tropics.



At the end of the road you have a very steep descent down Mt Wilson into Lithgow which is laid out before, an interesting view can be had from the small memorial stop half way down the range.


Chefs Summary: Corners - great, excellent surveying. Surface - very good.

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