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Title: Percentage road signs
Post by: MackieHornet on 06 September, 2011, 09:09:17 am
Anyone else take pictures of them, either before they've cycled up them, or after?    ???

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/2895735194_741d80cc65.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: bobb on 06 September, 2011, 09:31:20 am
I'll raise your 20....

I took this one of a very yellow токамак with sign in Cornwall circa 2007:

(http://www.zaribor.com/raz/pics/30per.jpg)

With fully loaded bikes, there was quite a bit of walking involved!
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Riggers on 06 September, 2011, 01:14:00 pm
Is that near Widemouth? Because if it is, then I've walked up it giggling, just thinking about how impossible it would be to cycle up it!!
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: interzen on 06 September, 2011, 01:24:52 pm
We've got a few 33%ers in these parts - Rosedale Chimney is one, naturally, although last time I was there it was just a "Dangerous Hill"-type sign rather than one of the xx% jobs. There is a climb out of Egton Bridge that is signed at 33%, though, and it's absolutely brutal.

I rarely take photos of hill signs - usually I'm trying hard not to cough up vital organs as a result of actually climbing the bloody things.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: red marley on 06 September, 2011, 01:29:52 pm
From an old thread on steep hills and the Cartesian equation of a line:

(http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/cartesianSlope.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: vorsprung on 06 September, 2011, 01:36:17 pm
In Devon near South Molton - 33%
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.076837,-3.867102&spn=0.018604,0.038152&z=15&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=51.076967,-3.8672&panoid=0kKOb2lRCV5dxTXxSbyV8A&cbp=12,310.61,,0,0

On the Bryan Chapman route, near Harlech - 40% and "unsuitable for motors"
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=harlech&hl=en&ll=52.859285,-4.107857&spn=0.018008,0.038152&sll=51.076971,-3.867187&sspn=0.018739,0.038152&vpsrc=6&z=15&layer=c&cbll=52.859284,-4.107802&panoid=yGKaLCpeY407jSLExQYCmg&cbp=12,30,,0,16.03
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: vorsprung on 06 September, 2011, 01:41:26 pm
This one is steeper than 25% and it is sustained for too long for my legs, even with a triple I've never climbed it
Out of Lynmouth heading for Lynton and the Valley of the Rocks
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=lynmouth&hl=en&ll=51.229853,-3.830023&spn=0.009271,0.019076&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=17.969195,39.067383&vpsrc=6&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.229758,-3.829931&panoid=OK9bnc4cyKEzWEd4Bl9MVQ&cbp=12,275.99,,0,0
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: mike on 06 September, 2011, 01:47:59 pm
a very proud MrsMike in the langdale valley: (http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/P8040380.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: tonyh on 06 September, 2011, 01:55:44 pm
Is that near Widemouth?

I think it's the road leaving Millook southwards (there's a similar one leading north).

I've ridden both, so there's serious doubt about their 30%ness ! (on an 18" gear, which is probably cheating) (and they have very short steepness, compared to Lynmouth, Hardknott, and others)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Moose57 on 07 September, 2011, 10:53:49 pm
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6185/6125332260_7351bb6a08_m.jpg)

Burgess Hill Rumble 2009, only 20%. But for someone who does most of his riding on the Romney Marsh a mountain.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 September, 2011, 09:18:46 am
The in-laws' cottage is on a cheeky 18%.

Slightly OT, but did anyone see Countryfile last week with the North Pennines on a motortrike?  They reckoned that the St John's Chapel to Langdon Beck road is the highest in England, but I'm sure that's bollix; I've been over it on a Brompton, although I did have to stop and rest a few times.

(http://www.peeble.com/wd3.jpg)

(http://www.peeble.com/wd8.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: MSeries on 10 September, 2011, 12:47:48 pm
The in-laws' cottage is on a cheeky 18%.

Slightly OT, but did anyone see Countryfile last week with the North Pennines on a motortrike?  They reckoned that the St John's Chapel to Langdon Beck road is the highest in England, but I'm sure that's bollix;

I was told that it's the highest road in England by Davey Baby,
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 10 September, 2011, 01:14:53 pm
Chapel Fell is the highest sealed through road in England, AIUI. Joint with Killhope Cross.

'zilla, have you been over Coldberry End out of Ireshopeburn? That's a lot higher, and a fair bit more challenging on a Brommie. It's an unsealed road, and I had to walk most of the descent to Teesdale on my tourer. I could have ridden it, if it hadn't been for the 80 mph gusts...
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 September, 2011, 02:31:13 pm
Nah, I've only been over the Burnhope Reservoir dam, up the stupidly steep ramp at the far end (there's a gate to stop vehicles) and then back down into Ireshopeburn.

I thought Newhouse Moor (the in-laws' cottage is actually at Newhouse) was higher, but the OS map says not.  It does have THREE separate chevrons on the OS map.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 06 October, 2011, 10:03:17 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2675/3923557163_c161c53798_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/3923557163/)
IMG_2609 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/3923557163/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 06 October, 2011, 10:04:15 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5005034538_c7d7056558_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/5005034538/)
IMG_4464 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/5005034538/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 06 October, 2011, 10:06:00 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3496/4002293986_15f192b4ec_z.jpg?zz=1) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4002293986/)
2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4002293986/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Rimnod on 09 October, 2011, 12:53:06 pm
Top of the Cults Hill in north east Fife.  A modest 600 feet over about 2 miles. 

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6238/6226185246_672b50cd07.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/33691028@N02/6226185246/)
Cults Hill (http://www.flickr.com/photos/33691028@N02/6226185246/) by sutton538 (http://www.flickr.com/people/33691028@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: vermooten on 18 October, 2011, 10:07:49 pm
oddly OT:

(http://i.imgur.com/xjI98.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: eeymsmo on 21 October, 2011, 01:30:49 pm
Not the highest of numbers, but an interesting combination. Unfortunately the flat bit at the bottom is through a farm yard and a tight 90 degree left hander so you don't carry much momentum onto the uphill bit, or get to really let go on the way down.

(http://napalmgram.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/photo1.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Arn0 on 22 October, 2011, 06:40:11 pm
On the road from Shimkent to Almaty (Kazakhstan):

(http://www.frogonabike.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/kazakhstan-shimkent-to-almaty/img_1018.jpg)

Didn't feel like 6.7% at all to me :)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 16 November, 2011, 06:33:42 pm
Possibly the most pathetic:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/3758496970_4fcfa09100_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/3758496970/)
Lourdes 16/07/09 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/3758496970/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 16 November, 2011, 09:29:34 pm
The Lecht:

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/6351645552_c57944048c_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6351645552/)
IMG_0623 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6351645552/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 November, 2011, 10:10:42 pm
20%, Low gear - no shit, Sherlock!

Do you remember what the ! above the 3% was warning of? Maybe "over-enthusiastic road signers".  :D
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Arellcat on 27 May, 2012, 02:03:55 pm
I encountered this one yesterday:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7084/7278864928_eac5e8e801_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/beqi/7278864928/)

I did start riding up it from the Bailey bridge at the bottom, but decided to walk the rest because the locals have added huge amounts of broken glass to the path, presumably in earnest for more traction in the icy winter months.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Basil on 27 May, 2012, 02:26:02 pm
And that one in Harlech

(http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/276199656.jpg?key=640480&Expires=1338126032&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=Y19EkPTzCuuqxNWyTCPmSy8nPU9bKHrQEpFjzSPhidsLwms9TZ4eT3eMsMaO-4cYSx3DRh9A3GsRPufcf3eQZDzu40Cp96WGZ-C8J0scE2cLflDyjY-cZgOduQvR04BQ0Bcjng4IqQIj0PyQSUampabZWo1CQEmmvdN2mFDcj7c_)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 27 May, 2012, 04:33:56 pm
I was curious to see how % equated to degrees.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Grades_degrees.svg/767px-Grades_degrees.svg.png)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(slope)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Andrew Br on 27 May, 2012, 11:27:08 pm
I was curious to see how % equated to degrees.



That's very interesting; I'd have said that Mow Cop (25%) looked more like 75% when I was climbing it (and looking back down it as well).

Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 May, 2012, 11:37:00 pm
What's interesting about it IMO is that our percentage signs are in a way misleading; they are based on the ration of up to along, rather than being a percentage of the possible - if they were that, then for instance the 40% sign above would be 20%. For the purposes of clear road signs, or probably almost any part of the Earth's surface, it's better the way we use them.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 28 May, 2012, 12:43:13 pm
Thirty degrees is where avalanche risk gets serious when you're skiing off-piste, it feels pretty horrendous, a lot more so than when you see it on paper. I'd like to know how gradients are actually worked out, Do the engineers just measure the steepest section with a protractor and a level, or do they do it trigonometrically based on rise and 'going' as it's called? I'd break it down into shorter sections myself, the worst cases are the inside of hairpin bends, which have a much steeper gradient than the outside. As anyone riding Hardknott or Wrynose Passes on a Bank Holiday weekend, when there is no choice of route up, will testify.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 05 June, 2012, 10:59:00 pm
Top of Suie near Alford:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7087/7289785278_2cb01790b4_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7289785278/)
IMG_0333 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7289785278/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Salvatore on 13 June, 2012, 06:41:17 pm
I was curious to see how % equated to degrees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(slope)

One of the photos of examples of road signs at the bottom of that wikipedia page was taken on the 2007 Elenith. Richard Harding is the rider walker.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Chris S on 13 June, 2012, 06:53:36 pm
I've never been skiing, but I'd heard from #1 son that ski slopes can be steep. Having cycled over the Lecht a couple of weeks ago, where you can see clearly the slopes marked out on the mountaintops to the left and right, I can safely say I never will go skiing - I was getting vertigo looking up at them - so god knows how I would feel looking down them  :facepalm:.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Feanor on 08 July, 2012, 05:42:32 pm
Top of Suie near Alford:

(http://www.lowe-family.me.uk/photos/Suie_small.JPG)

Today, the Tap o' Noth is visible.   That's the obvious hill which rises up just behind the metropolis of Rhynie.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Chris S on 09 July, 2012, 10:59:57 am
I forgot I had one of these...

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6024/5947389399_c8ee3fca90.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/5947389399/)
IMAG0159 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/5947389399/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

It's here: MappityClick (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=364815&y=266590&z=120&sv=364815,266590&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=688&ax=364815&ay=266590&lm=0)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: arvid on 09 July, 2012, 09:57:39 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/7471300898_ddc4fee56c_z.jpg)
Hill on Day 2 of Mille Alba between Edinburgh and Berwick.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8154/7471217808_8ba1005539_z.jpg)
NCN1 near Belford. This was of course with full camping gear.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7073/7328478824_b3b0155c96_z.jpg)
20% Chineway / Chine Hill heading east from Ottery St. Mary. And yes that's full camping gear.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 10 July, 2012, 04:38:01 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/7471300898_ddc4fee56c_z.jpg)
Hill on Day 2 of Mille Alba between Edinburgh and Berwick.

Redstone Rig (check your Flickr comments  ;) )
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: bobb on 29 July, 2012, 08:06:21 pm
I did a bit of a double take when I saw this sign on Friday in Herts:

(http://www.zaribor.com/raz/pics/1in8.jpg)

It is the only pic in this thread of a sign using the proper method of describing a gradient  :P

Incidentally, when I came back the other way today, I noticed the one at the bottom of the hill said 8%. Unless I'm very much mistaken, 1 in 8 is 12.5 percent?! (I didn't stop and take a photo as it was pissing down!)

I also saw another sign elsewhere in Herts saying "1:8" It would seem they like to do it old skool in Hertfordshire....
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: mcshroom on 29 July, 2012, 08:34:04 pm
It is the only pic in this thread of a sign using the proper method of describing a gradient  :P

Perhaps that has something to do with the thread title ;)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: bobb on 29 July, 2012, 10:10:25 pm
It is the only pic in this thread of a sign using the proper method of describing a gradient  :P

Perhaps that has something to do with the thread title ;)

Oh yeah! Maybe I should start a new thread  :P

I wonder how many old skool 1 in x of 1:x signs are left in the UK?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 July, 2012, 10:55:12 am
I don't think there are many 1:x signs left, but definitely there are still a few. That's the only one I've ever seen though using "in". It looks pretty new, too - or maybe it's just a shiny photo.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 September, 2012, 10:42:45 pm
No photo, sorry, but saw a 25% sign at the bottom of a hill of the K&A Canal the other day. I have to confess I had planned to ride that way but wimped out when I saw the sign.  :-[ Turned out that hill didn't go quite where I wanted anyway.  :thumbsup: Thing was, on the map it's only marked with one chevron.

Streetview photo (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=freshford&ll=51.348065,-2.315583&spn=0.014555,0.042272&hnear=Freshford,+Bath+and+North+East+Somerset,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.348033,-2.315412&panoid=otDp2879LWPoSS5oRNBwag&cbp=12,270,,0,0)

And OS map with one chevron. (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=378060&y=161135&z=120&sv=378060,161135&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=617&ax=378060&ay=161135&lm=0)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 September, 2012, 10:45:01 pm
It's a long time since I did That Sort of Thing but is not 1:8 the same as 1 in 9?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 September, 2012, 10:52:47 pm
It's a long time since I did That Sort of Thing but is not 1:8 the same as 1 in 9?
I thought that when we're talking about scales or gradients, 1:8, 1/8, 1 in 8 and 12.5% are all different ways of expressing the same thing?

In a recipe you might say 1 part sugar to 8 parts flour, or whatever, which would mean sugar is 1/9 of the total, but that's ratios of one thing to another, rather than scales.

Isn't it?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 September, 2012, 10:55:17 pm
As I say, it's a long time, but I have some sort of recollection that 1:8 is the ratio (1 unit vertically to 8 horizontally) whereas 1 in 9 measures the distance you have to go along the road (9 units) before you climb one.  Or something.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 September, 2012, 11:01:15 pm
Ah - so 1:8 is measuring 8 horizontally whereas 1 in 9 is measuring the 9 along the actual length of the road - the length of the hypotenuse, in effect. Could be, I wasn't aware of that.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: red marley on 06 September, 2012, 01:35:23 pm
The difference between the two measures is marginal for typical road gradients (arcTan(1/8) vs arcSin(1/8) giving 7.13o and 7.18o respectively for a "1 in 8"). Road camber, distance over which the gradient is measured and general importance of warning drivers to change their behaviour are going to have far greater effect on the gradient posted.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 September, 2012, 02:17:48 pm
Agreed. But none of that explains why one sign says 1:8 and another 1 in 8 ! (FWIW I reckon it's just a random local decision or sign-printing artefact)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: PH on 12 September, 2012, 12:54:01 pm
Three from the Yorkshire Dales, rode down the 20%, up the 16% and the 25% to Aysgarth Falls I rode down and walked back up.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8172/7979180403_2975c6033c_c.jpg)

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8458/7979179631_3a320e9930_c.jpg)

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8180/7979181583_d359354469_c.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: clarion on 12 September, 2012, 12:57:52 pm
These photos make my shoulder twinge when I just think about such hills.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Ray 6701 on 12 September, 2012, 01:01:02 pm
Buttermilk hill, Marchington woodlands.  This is more like 20+% than 13.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8466/8089894880_fc18a3a054_z_d.jpg)

Startley hill, Upper Longdon. 
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8469/8089894471_cb0d5037f3_z_d.jpg)

You can just see Kim in the background on her way up  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Riggers on 12 September, 2012, 01:05:33 pm
Either consciously or not, I like the way the bike angle reflects the sign's gradient!
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 15 September, 2012, 11:26:00 pm
For bobb:

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2431/4001997650_2f7f123167_z.jpg?zz=1) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4001997650/)
image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4001997650/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Mrs P & I rode this one today. There was a dead adder on it.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Kim on 16 September, 2012, 02:38:27 pm
Startley hill, Upper Longdon. 
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8314/7962425620_8ab2ff6d5f_z_d.jpg)

You can just see Kim in the background on her way up  :thumbsup:

Given sufficient ballast, that one's a doddle as long as you know it's coming and can hit the bottom at speeds in excess of 30mph.  Otherwise, not so much.   :)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Ray 6701 on 07 October, 2012, 06:46:53 pm
Cloves hill, Morley.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8186/8089890218_e613734a1a_z_d.jpg)

As steep as you want it to be 
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Ray 6701 on 15 October, 2012, 12:37:26 pm
Mill hill: Theddingworth.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8328/8089883010_3f41d22476_z_d.jpg)

Old School for Bob  :thumbsup:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8192/8089881835_ef32b2a639_z_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: toestrap on 05 November, 2012, 07:34:28 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8474/8150232313_569ac65061.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/54089265@N02/8150232313/)

Late October sunset, Honister pass.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Ray 6701 on 06 November, 2012, 12:51:51 pm
One from Saturdays Upper Thames Audax.  I'll have to check the routesheet to see what the hill is called though.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7131/8160889837_a2479d0e99_z_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 November, 2012, 05:03:11 pm
In the Wolds near Thixendale:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8067/8172402085_1417bd3a97.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 13 January, 2013, 03:54:02 pm
A Belgian one:

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4132/5004864304_15753931f8_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/5004864304/)
IMG_4407 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/5004864304/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pedal Castro on 16 January, 2013, 09:45:48 pm
Lakes tour 1979. youth hostels - no tent etc, all gear in '37 pattern back pack strapped to rack.

(http://www.nrtoone.com/images/LakeDistrictcycletour2_sm.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Toady on 16 January, 2013, 11:22:30 pm
My av is Cudham hill, near Downe in Kent.  The steep bit is mercifully short.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 27 January, 2013, 12:10:35 pm
Not a road sign:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8497/8418678505_2a915536c0_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8418678505/)
IMG_1226 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8418678505/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: MattH on 03 February, 2013, 07:48:59 pm
On Anglesey, going to Llanddonna beach :-
http://goo.gl/maps/c6mYz

Actually a bit of a cheat, as it's 35% going down and "only" 25% coming back up (there is a loop down, along the beach, and back up the other side, which everyone does in one direction). 35% down is pretty hairy on very narrow, twisty lanes where you are on the brakes all the time rather than just allowing it to roll.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Toady on 06 February, 2013, 01:45:49 pm

Leading up to Cudham in Kent. One of the hills not on the itinerary. (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=67681.0)
I recognise that from somewhere!  ;D
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: andrew_s on 06 February, 2013, 10:25:31 pm
More old school for Bobb
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=lynmouth&hl=en&ll=51.207179,-3.604589&spn=0.013793,0.04137&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=17.969195,39.067383&layer=c&cbll=51.207128,-3.604727&panoid=sb5eWebVgAtXyw3nXB-20g&cbp=12,232.44,,0,6.28&hnear=Lynmouth,+Devon,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15

1:4 on the A39
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 17 February, 2013, 08:28:32 pm
Suie again with added snow:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8519/8482342991_22249d7106_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8482342991/)
IMG_1252 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8482342991/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Trull on 19 February, 2013, 12:51:44 am
Happy days cycling from Sabhal mor Ostaig over the wee hills past Loch Dugald towards Tarskavaig...

I met 6 highland cattle on the way down who were every bit as amused to see me as I was them  :o

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/torcuill/8487786932/)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/torcuill/8487786932/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/torcuill/8487786932/)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Toady on 10 March, 2013, 08:53:22 pm
Leading up to Cudham in Kent. One of the hills not on the itinerary. (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=67681.0)
I rode past this yesterday.  The percentage sign has gone, just the "low gear now" sign remains. 
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Bendy Bianchi on 18 March, 2013, 08:39:23 pm
I've been there and took the same photo! It's on the cycle path that runs into Lourdes, going around Tourmalet.

Possibly the most pathetic:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/3758496970_4fcfa09100_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/3758496970/)
Lourdes 16/07/09 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/3758496970/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Foghat on 28 March, 2013, 04:07:10 pm
Near the top of The Stang, at the border between North Yorkshire and County Durham, on Tuesday.

(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a183/Foghat1/Yorkshire%202013/tn_IMG_1776_zps34f8a269.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 08 April, 2013, 11:28:09 pm
That's not that close to the top: they've chopped a load of trees from the summit in the last couple of years, and it gets a fair bit steeper around that bend. Did you walk up it?

Here's one from the North York Moors, a side road off Castleton Rigg:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8519/8631656453_b8b6ce4674_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8631656453/)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 06 May, 2013, 08:28:44 pm
Welham Hill on the approach to Malton - there's no way this is actually 17%! (The 10% down the other side, which I didn't bother photographing, is more realistic I think.)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7330/8715421030_a918c8db40.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/natnot/8715421030/)

A faded one, can't remember where:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7448/8715428036_a16780f99b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/natnot/8715428036/)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Dibdib on 16 May, 2013, 09:31:11 pm
The top of Hackpen Hill, near Wroughton:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/8745531372_248b4cc031.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8745531372/)
IMG_0206 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8745531372/) by dibdib2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/dibdib/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: billplumtree on 17 May, 2013, 07:36:30 am
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-LJ1XSntXbe8/SVtW16Qf0VI/AAAAAAAAAfg/TT4TCX9eL-0/s640/France2008-20.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Riggers on 17 May, 2013, 08:51:11 am
Plummers old chap, that's a lovely photo. It would help enormously, in the jealousy stakes, if you accompanied the photo with "Welcome to my office", or similar.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: billplumtree on 17 May, 2013, 01:08:36 pm
No such luck, old bean.  It was taken on holiday a couple of years ago.  If it helps though, Hardknott Pass in the pics upthread is only a few miles up the road?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 06 June, 2013, 10:02:44 pm
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3676/8928437661_02bc323ee4_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8928437661/)
IMG_1641 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8928437661/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: woollypigs on 06 June, 2013, 10:16:07 pm
You were going down weren't you.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Chris S on 07 June, 2013, 08:53:23 am
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5462/8939708640_df1844f54d.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/8939708640/)
P1030144 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/8939708640/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

It's blurry because we were already doing about 70kph  :thumbsup:.

A68 from Riding Mill up to Kiln Pit Hill. It's a cruel and unusual feature of Sleepy's York Langholm York 600; you climb it at 380km to get to the overnight control. At about 3am.

Fboab: "Oh God. Please, can we walk?"
Me: "No"

I'm so mean  ;D

Of course, awake and fresh in the morning, we get to go down it again - as per the picture - at enormous speed  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 11 June, 2013, 08:32:04 pm
Top of Glenshee:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5467/9011112758_0068585cd2_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9011112758/)
IMG_1650 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9011112758/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 17 June, 2013, 09:29:35 pm
Pennan - it's a feck of a lot steeper than that at the bottom:

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3756/9060080173_0e77c47c80_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9060080173/)
IMG_1665 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9060080173/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: bobb on 04 July, 2013, 05:59:25 pm
Information overload Swiss style:

(http://www.zaribor.co.uk/raz/pics/swisspercent.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 July, 2013, 11:52:47 am
Is the cyclist with backpack meant to represent children cycling to school?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: bobb on 08 July, 2013, 02:02:17 pm
Is the cyclist with backpack meant to represent children cycling to school?

It represents an MTBer. The (very excellent) Swiss cycle routes even tell you what type of bikes they are suitable for. So if you come across a sign with only the MTBer, you know it has a high NSTN rating! I think the reason that sign has both an MTB and road bike indicates that both routes follow the same road at that point....

I loved riding in Switzerland :)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Euan Uzami on 20 July, 2013, 05:44:23 pm
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B2dhQRq2YsA/Ueq6sUDvw5I/AAAAAAAABw4/e5AzmjYAoxg/w913-h685-no/20130709_162742.jpg)

(it wasn't, i'd just ridden up it sitting down in 3rd which is about 27")
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Arellcat on 20 July, 2013, 07:12:57 pm
Looks a bit like this one.  :)

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7084/7278864928_eac5e8e801_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/beqi/7278864928/)

I had the gears to ride up the hill (24" seemed plenty low enough), but there was too much smashed glass to risk it.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 27 July, 2013, 10:43:31 pm
And again:

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2864/9377629075_429739621d_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9377629075/)
IMG_1746 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9377629075/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Suie hill
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pedal Castro on 03 August, 2013, 09:03:58 pm
(http://www.nrtoone.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/nex5_20130803_0002_sm.jpg)

Harringworth, just after the viaduct.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: delthebike on 11 August, 2013, 10:11:22 pm
On the way to Manningtree station.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-es7BNDE7U0c/Ugf6qWxcODI/AAAAAAAAH5A/-4L25COuiH0/s640/p8110804.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: sojournermike on 30 August, 2013, 12:34:49 am
(http://photosojourner.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/life-has-1-of-1.jpg)

"The Lord giveth and he taketh away"

Goathland, North Yorkshire

and, yes, I believe they mean it
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Peter on 30 August, 2013, 01:07:39 am
Looks a bit like this one.  :)

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7084/7278864928_eac5e8e801_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/beqi/7278864928/)

I had the gears to ride up the hill (24" seemed plenty low enough), but there was too much smashed glass to risk it.

The small-arms grouping seems to be a little better on the lower one.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 24 September, 2013, 08:06:21 pm
A nice bit of detail from Iran:

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2885/9920599504_ba87af2d15_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/9920599504/)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Trull on 06 October, 2013, 01:28:46 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8097/8487786932_6b5014d83f_o.jpg)

Just above Torskavaig on Skye, I had to be careful of the hielan beasts on the descent...
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: marcusjb on 07 October, 2013, 09:41:36 am
(http://photosojourner.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/life-has-1-of-1.jpg)

"The Lord giveth and he taketh away"

Goathland, North Yorkshire

and, yes, I believe they mean it

That's a good one - not seen a down and an up next to each other. 

I take it that if you go fast enough down the down, you can freewheel all the way to the top of the up?  That's how it works isn't it?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: sojournermike on 07 October, 2013, 11:34:17 pm
(http://photosojourner.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/life-has-1-of-1.jpg)

"The Lord giveth and he taketh away"

Goathland, North Yorkshire

and, yes, I believe they mean it

That's a good one - not seen a down and an up next to each other. 

I take it that if you go fast enough down the down, you can freewheel all the way to the top of the up?  That's how it works isn't it?


If you survive the turns...

Better to rest awhile at the Beck Hole pub, pint in hand, contemplating the coming ascent.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: shyumu on 07 October, 2013, 11:47:45 pm
I've been meaning to post this one for a while.  20% downhill for 16 miles, woooo yay!  Journey to the centre of the Earth.  Of course it is actually referring to Blue Bank on the outskirts of Whitby.

(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg53/shyumu/DSCN5628_zps9063c3b5.jpg) (http://s245.photobucket.com/user/shyumu/media/DSCN5628_zps9063c3b5.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Toady on 19 November, 2013, 10:39:00 pm
This is only the second time I've ever ridden down Ditchling Beacon (or Bostal).  Normally get the train home, or else ride back up the A23 cycle path.

(http://imageshack.com/a/img802/5059/yvb6.jpg) (http://imageshack.com/i/mayvb6j)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 24 November, 2013, 10:09:25 pm
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2807/11036998594_0ba05a2564_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/11036998594/)
hill (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/11036998594/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Karla on 24 November, 2013, 10:40:24 pm
Red Bank?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 24 November, 2013, 10:46:52 pm
No, it's the climb from Marske up to the ranges. Red Bank is comparatively well surfaced - and I think the sign there is 25%.

Yes, it is:

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17577.msg1427715#msg1427715
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 26 July, 2014, 09:30:32 pm
Suie Hill yet again:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3893/14564632440_a021c8a7c5_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oc2xNq)
IMG_3595 (https://flic.kr/p/oc2xNq) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: BobScarle on 29 July, 2014, 09:56:46 pm

(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w417/BobScarle/IMG00018-20140619-1135_zps86c7d91e.jpg) (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/BobScarle/media/IMG00018-20140619-1135_zps86c7d91e.jpg.html)

Bottom of the Devils Staircase in mid Wales.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Andrij on 29 July, 2014, 09:59:04 pm
Can't be - it's not raining.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: BobScarle on 29 July, 2014, 10:15:02 pm

(http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w417/BobScarle/IMG00015-20140619-1120_zps6b0c0d54.jpg) (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/BobScarle/media/IMG00015-20140619-1120_zps6b0c0d54.jpg.html)

It was an absolutely glorious day. This is the road between Abergwesyn and Tregaron going towards the Staircase. Wonderful.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Andrij on 29 July, 2014, 10:17:32 pm
With considerably more experience under my belt I should try that bit of Wales again.  Tried the Elenith 300km a few years back - not a good day out on the bike.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Kim on 03 September, 2014, 07:18:12 pm
And that one in Harlech

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/wales2014/Photo0912.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Otto on 04 September, 2014, 10:57:28 am
Chalk Pit Lane Near Oxted

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/1428853_d9a6438d-1_zps14c68b59.jpg) (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/ottocat/media/1428853_d9a6438d-1_zps14c68b59.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 September, 2014, 02:57:27 am
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5553/14956167399_6b4c7c0422_b.jpg)
At the junction of CA-4 and CA-89 near Markleeville.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 September, 2014, 11:44:30 pm
I like the sign just beyond it: Snow not removed beyond here.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2014, 07:07:54 pm
I like that sort of sign when driving in USAnia.  "Chain-up area ahead" is a good one.  These mean SNO, SNO means hills and hills means corners and after three hours of driving across a pan-flat desert you need something like that just to wake you up ;D
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Riggers on 08 September, 2014, 11:32:31 am
Also … someone was bored enough to stop their car, get out, and graffiti-up the poles of the sign. Maybe they weren't tall enough to reach the sign
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 12 June, 2015, 02:01:31 pm
Park Rash:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/418/18114180514_34a8245156_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tAFUM9)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Basil on 12 June, 2015, 02:47:48 pm
Park Rash:

Is that the COR version of road rash?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: cycleman on 12 June, 2015, 07:19:17 pm
I had to use my parking brake as a drag brake going down that last year  :).good fun both up and down   :)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 18 February, 2016, 11:07:34 pm
The lie at Wolsingham (it's at least 18%, but at least this one's pointing downhill):

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1619/25114533345_bb3240256f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EghxMB)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: sojournermike on 25 February, 2016, 02:11:44 pm
Park Rash:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/418/18114180514_34a8245156_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tAFUM9)


That's nonsense - you need the low gear going up the ......

Mike
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: cycleman on 26 February, 2016, 06:53:07 pm
Me and Jonathan notp climbed up that and then came back down it on a rest day when we rode some of the way of the rose's route . definitely low gear on the way up and hot and smelly drum brakes and parking/drag brake on the way down  :o . great fun though  :)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: sojournermike on 26 February, 2016, 07:29:51 pm
Me and Jonathan notp climbed up that and then came back down it on a rest day when we rode some of the way of the rose's route . definitely low gear on the way up and hot and smelly drum brakes and parking/drag brake on the way down  :o . great fun though  :)

I'm just trying to work out where you stopped that made riding to and climbing Park Rash seem like a good idea on a rest day?

Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: cycleman on 27 February, 2016, 09:53:43 am
Grassington  :) .
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: red marley on 06 March, 2016, 10:07:20 pm
A comparatively rare 15 percenter near Bedham West Sussex spotted today.

(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/bedham15.jpg)

Which makes we wonder whether...
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: red marley on 06 March, 2016, 10:09:14 pm
... for the completists among us, we might try to go for the full set. Here is what we have from this thread so far. Just think of it as a more athletic version of collecting football stickers.

(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/percentageGrid.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Kim on 06 March, 2016, 10:12:26 pm
... for the completists among us, we might try to go for the full set. Here is what we have from this thread so far. Just think of it as a more athletic version of collecting football stickers.

(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/percentageGrid.jpg)

POTD
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 March, 2016, 10:13:05 pm
Ah, from the days before Panini became a poncey word for bread! But you can't stop at 40, surely you've got to go up to 100?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: marcusjb on 06 March, 2016, 10:15:00 pm
A comparatively rare 15 percent near Bedham West Sussex spotted today.

(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/bedham15.jpg)

Which makes we wonder whether...

That is a properly lovely climb, and a bit of a shock for those parts (certainly the first time I rode that way, through the gentle countryside, it took me totally by surprise to find that hill!).

It features on what is sure to be the best 200km event starting from Richmond Upon Thames in August (see signature below for details).
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 06 March, 2016, 10:24:12 pm
Just for you, jo :)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1659/24941506843_1dddd9a4f1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DZZK34)

(it's in Turkey, which is probably cheating, but nevermind)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: red marley on 06 March, 2016, 10:33:17 pm
Excellent stuff Deano. International signs definitely allowed and many of yours already feature.

Sticker book now updated:

(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/percentageGridV2.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: mcshroom on 06 March, 2016, 10:38:21 pm
Looks like I might need to be awkward and get the 12.5% on Grizebeck Brow at some point ;D
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: marcusjb on 06 March, 2016, 10:44:09 pm
I claim 21% with Barhatch Lane, Surrey.  The sign could do with a clean (but not for the Queen).

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1592/25568865725_966c644d81_h.jpg)

I think I know a 19% that might be in reach on Tuesday.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 06 March, 2016, 11:22:00 pm
Ah, from the days before Panini became a poncey word for bread! But you can't stop at 40, surely you've got to go up to 100?

There is a sign warning of 50% on tis thread, but it's on a ski lift.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: red marley on 07 March, 2016, 07:15:09 am
Ooh, a twenty-oner! So near a nice round 1:5 and yet so precise. It would great if we could break into the nines with that 19%. And then there would only be the 18% to get to complete the row.

(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/percentageGridV3.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: red marley on 07 March, 2016, 06:03:12 pm
Here are some more we could bag for YACF if you have a camera, a bike and an idle moment:

A 7% sign just off the top of the Snake Pass on the Glossop side (http://members.ziggo.nl/phme.dekkers/BIGmeeting2010.html).

A 9%er near Rothwell, Lincs (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3499877)

An 18%er in Forest Hill, Dulwich (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1435555)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 07 March, 2016, 08:00:45 pm
How about 7.5%?  :P

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5541/9658490568_8fbcf3cf2a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/fHuhKs)
IMG_1863 (https://flic.kr/p/fHuhKs) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 12 March, 2016, 10:45:13 pm
The easy start of Fleet Moss:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1623/25616307162_8cf7620bd1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/F2CgEj)

I didn't get a photo, but the sign at the top only says 16%, I could have sworn it was steeper than that. I swore anyway.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 12 March, 2016, 10:46:10 pm
Another oldschool one, which is probably an easier game than Jo's:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1555/25436632600_18dba69eab_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EKKoF3)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 17 March, 2016, 08:46:27 pm
Bouncing in at 9, Dibdale Bank:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1463/25745641012_87b34e1ce8_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Fe497h)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Peter on 17 March, 2016, 09:29:37 pm
The easy start of Fleet Moss:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1623/25616307162_8cf7620bd1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/F2CgEj)

I didn't get a photo, but the sign at the top only says 16%, I could have sworn it was steeper than that. I swore anyway.

Are you talking about the hard/Hawes side, Dean?  It looks like it from the picture.  The last time I was up there (about three years ago), I was puzzled to get up the hard bit just before the left-hander (which has no sign) to be confronted round the corner by a sign warning of an impending 1 in 5, still ascent.  The bit before is definitely harder and I've seen info. somewhere that has it at 1 in 4 - and I believe that!
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 17 March, 2016, 09:47:19 pm
The easy start of Fleet Moss:

I didn't get a photo, but the sign at the top only says 16%, I could have sworn it was steeper than that. I swore anyway.

Are you talking about the hard/Hawes side, Dean?  It looks like it from the picture.  The last time I was up there (about three years ago), I was puzzled to get up the hard bit just before the left-hander (which has no sign) to be confronted round the corner by a sign warning of an impending 1 in 5, still ascent.  The bit before is definitely harder and I've seen info. somewhere that has it at 1 in 4 - and I believe that!

Aye, that's it. We were routechecking Dave's Ultra Dales Tour (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10.msg2002981#msg2002981), and Dave said it was 25% when I commented on the sign.

In the caff at Kettlewell, I wondered out loud how many cyclists had been caught out by that first bit and thought it was the whole of the climb - turns out, Steve had thought exactly that. Poor sod.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Peter on 17 March, 2016, 10:12:32 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: cygnet on 19 March, 2016, 04:07:44 pm
Forest Hill 18%er snapped on the way back home from a club ride.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1476/25787509152_3f8c529372_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FhKJ3L)IMG-20160319-01251 (https://flic.kr/p/FhKJ3L) by Alcedoatthis (https://www.flickr.com/photos/65361243@N04/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: red marley on 30 May, 2016, 08:18:24 pm
A rare oldskool one in seven, spotted today coming off the Ridgeway near Princes Risborough

(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/oneInSeven.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 17 August, 2016, 07:23:14 am
Another old-style one, on the Hell's Glen road:

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8802/28418503474_0aee48a2d6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KiffZQ)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: mcshroom on 23 September, 2016, 10:33:30 pm
One on the Devon C2C just outside Okehampton
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/roeZ01fBmNPne3w_3AfTJb-2CydyfFIFdrwqbqLhH1okb6RjBLfefoc_QKVU8pzSDZd-SJQseYPkAg=w1366-h768-rw-no)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: amedias on 05 April, 2017, 01:16:11 pm
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/13938198_10157187473340654_1969689503973941353_o.jpg?oh=e6c7159c3267e908bd1a65b671b6d562&oe=5963D74F)

It didn't look that bad from this angle, turned the corner and it definitely lived up to the sign!

The climb out of Lynmouth on north Devon Coast
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2298698,-3.8300843,3a,66.8y,187.76h,73.18t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1scxB_jq3VtnE0ghpgyxBM3A!2e0

Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: mcshroom on 01 May, 2017, 08:51:09 pm
At the top of Honister
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2836/34231411432_a97c542219_z.jpg)
I didn't get the 25% further down as I was too busy trying to pull the brake levers through the front of the bars.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Salvatore on 07 June, 2017, 10:47:21 am
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4243/35113737266_4da6022f04_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VuT5Kd)

At Wellow, near Bath. More like 14%

I think this must be the result of a dodgy phone line between the Somerset County Council and the road sign depot people.

CC: Can you  do us a fourteen percent sign, please?
SP:  Forty percent? OK,
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 June, 2017, 11:25:37 am
I've been meaning to get a photo of that one! When I first saw it, I thought someone had switched the figures for a prank, but the signs are the same at top and bottom of the hill and all looks official. A bit more than 14% I reckon but not even the steepest hill in Wellow – there's one with a fairly believable double chevron – and the idea of anything there being 40% is quite funny.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: sojournermike on 07 June, 2017, 12:25:20 pm
In a similar vein, the sign at the turn off for Huisinish on Harris used to say 115 miles. After drive g it the first time, in the dark and pouring rain, we concluded that, like the weather forecast, it was a 'feels like' number.

A few real 33% signs on Saturday around Egton Bridge
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 June, 2017, 03:59:37 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4236/34706462684_4b91d183f9_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/USTGcE)
Sign disagrees with OS map, which gives it a chevron for "at least 14%".
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: telstarbox on 26 June, 2017, 05:26:42 pm
You lot might enjoy this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/BritishSigns

Also, here's a 'mere' 16%, with added roundabout!

(http://i68.tinypic.com/vfi8gp.jpg)



Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Basil on 26 June, 2017, 05:57:11 pm
 :D
And I'm now following.  Sometimes I just embarrass myself.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 June, 2017, 05:21:28 pm
You lot might enjoy this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/BritishSigns

Also, here's a 'mere' 16%, with added roundabout!

(http://i68.tinypic.com/vfi8gp.jpg)
And a relatively uncommon three-figure B road number. <geek out>
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: telstarbox on 27 June, 2017, 05:46:46 pm
Quite a few of those around and within the M25.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 30 June, 2017, 10:24:21 am
Ooh, maybe we should have a thread for uncommon road signs - I'll have to get a pic of the horrible C11 next time I'm over that way (hopefully never), as there don't seem to be many C-road signs around!
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Salvatore on 14 July, 2017, 09:20:05 am
Not a percentage. Somewhere in the maze of lanes north of Petersfield.

(http://i.imgur.com/SdLBQqN.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Pingu on 26 July, 2017, 11:43:08 am
I think we've had this one at Glenshee before, but we're getting it again  :) I think this must the UK's highest one:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4300/35783371300_77da682089_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Ww48BA)
IMG_9027_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Ww48BA) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 July, 2017, 02:57:51 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4243/35113737266_4da6022f04_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VuT5Kd)

At Wellow, near Bath. More like 14%

I think this must be the result of a dodgy phone line between the Somerset County Council and the road sign depot people.

CC: Can you  do us a fourteen percent sign, please?
SP:  Forty percent? OK,
This one has now been corrected at both ends.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: TigaSefi on 31 July, 2017, 08:22:39 pm
You lot might enjoy this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/BritishSigns

Also, here's a 'mere' 16%, with added roundabout!

(http://i68.tinypic.com/vfi8gp.jpg)

Yay I found this sign the other week! Gotta love Titsey Hill.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Aushiker on 16 January, 2018, 12:29:35 am
(http://aushiker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017_December_Oh-Yeah-...-Up-Up-and-Away-Day-06-04_.jpg)

Day 6: Esperance to Albany: The Unconventional Ride. 750 km in 10 days. Time for the "fun" to start. I actually surprised myself and rode all but about 50 metres of the climb. Mind you that was about it for the day :)


Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 January, 2018, 09:57:20 am
Everything in that photo looks 'big'. Big scrubby land, big hill, big blue sky with a big sun shining bigly on it!
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Kim on 16 January, 2018, 12:45:21 pm
The design of the sign is bugging me...
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 January, 2018, 01:11:57 pm
The design of the sign is bugging me...
Which aspect?

The fact that reading the 17% left to right suggests a descent rather than an ascent?

The jarring mismatch of angles?

Or it being a rural roadsign in Australia without any bullet holes?
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 January, 2018, 02:45:53 pm
The first had struck me too. I presume the 17% refers to a steep bit later on, and as Aushiker "rode all but 50 metres of the climb" there must have been at least 50 metres that was steep.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Aushiker on 17 January, 2018, 04:30:24 am
The first had struck me too. I presume the 17% refers to a steep bit later on, and as Aushiker "rode all but 50 metres of the climb" there must have been at least 50 metres that was steep.

It is a fairly long climb [the sign is at the very beginning and out of sight of the really steep part]. Is a fairly steepish climb for most of it with the real kick going around a bend. That is the part I walked. Last time I rode this road I walked a lot more of it but I guess I am fitter this time. I think if one was on a roadie [I was on a loaded fatbike] the whole climb would be doable.

The sign I assume is an international standard or the roads people have used the wrong version [wouldn't be surprised if it was the later but].  Bit like this floodway sign. The floodway was behind me down the bottom of the hill where it was expected :)

(http://aushiker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017_December_Someone-Stole-the-Floodway-Day-04-10_.jpg)

Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Aunt Maud on 17 January, 2018, 08:28:11 am
(http://aushiker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017_December_Oh-Yeah-...-Up-Up-and-Away-Day-06-04_.jpg)


What, no roadkill ?

It matches my shiny hat and vest though.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Deano on 11 March, 2018, 10:28:40 pm
Hawnby, North Yorks Moors.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4787/26884340978_c1ff37d62f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GXFgWj)

I'm sure they had a surplus of these signs when they were putting them up around t'Moors, but this one I believe.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: Salvatore on 22 August, 2019, 11:00:28 am
Have we had an 18%er yet? About 2 km SW of Bridgnorth.

(https://i.imgur.com/3FnU2sQm.jpg)
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: bludger on 22 August, 2019, 11:06:34 am
(https://i.imgur.com/St4U3xQ.jpg)

Barhatch from the tour of the hills. The last climb of the day and the gnarliest!
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: mzjo on 01 October, 2020, 10:48:39 am
(https://i.imgur.com/W5g3W4R.jpg) 

The Horseshoe Pass, Llangollen. We were all convinced that this was wildly optimistic - 10% or at a pinch 12% would be closer to the mark.

(https://i.imgur.com/Oord0EU.jpg)

This is probably correct. A nice pass, where you can go higher than the summit going back down (there must be a few like that).
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: andytheflyer on 01 October, 2020, 11:37:32 am
(https://i.imgur.com/W5g3W4R.jpg) 

The Horseshoe Pass, Llangollen. We were all convinced that this was wildly optimistic - 10% or at a pinch 12% would be closer to the mark.
It is, but there's a section of about 50m going up, just after the first part of the horseshoe bit that comes close. Once I'm over that bit the breathing resumes its normal wheezing pattern.
Title: Re: Percentage road signs
Post by: sojournermike on 21 March, 2022, 09:57:27 pm
Hawnby, North Yorks Moors.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4787/26884340978_c1ff37d62f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GXFgWj)

I'm sure they had a surplus of these signs when they were putting them up around t'Moors, but this one I believe.

Few too many of these in those parts for comfort. Seem to run into one within a few minutes whenever I ride from Goathland…