The A862 on a motorcycle
Our routes ride 38 miles of the A862 (Highlands, United Kingdom), where it is also called Newton Road. Its longest stretch on our routes turns 105 degrees a mile, among the straighter of the 151 roads we track.
- On our routes
- 38 miles
- Curvature
- 105 ° a mile
- Twistiness rank
- 101 of 151
- Longest gap between fuel
- 14 miles
The A862 is drawn in black where our routes use it. Red lines are the full routes; click one to open it.
Routes that ride the A862
| Route | Miles on the A862 | |
|---|---|---|
| North Coast 500514 miles in all | 38 | GPX |
| Moray Firth Tourist Route82 miles in all | 18 | GPX |
How we measure it
Curvature is the total change of direction along the road, in degrees for every mile, measured on the route line every 100 metres. Gentle drift under 3 degrees is ignored, so a long sweeping bend counts for less than a run of tight ones. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.
Fuel counts stations within 1 km of the line on its longest stretch on our routes (25 miles), from OpenStreetMap. There are 4 on that stretch.