Author Topic: Percentage road signs (Read 87155 times)

Deano · « **Reply #125 on:** 06 March, 2016, 10:24:12 pm »

Just for you, jo

(it's in Turkey, which is probably cheating, but nevermind)

red marley · « **Reply #126 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:

mcshroom · « **Reply #127 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

marcusjb · « **Reply #128 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).

I think I know a 19% that might be in reach on Tuesday.

Pingu · « **Reply #129 on:** 06 March, 2016, 11:22:00 pm »

Quote from: 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?

There is a sign warning of 50% on tis thread, but it's on a ski lift.

red marley · « **Reply #130 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.

red marley · « **Reply #131 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.

A 9%er near Rothwell, Lincs

An 18%er in Forest Hill, Dulwich

Pingu · « **Reply #132 on:** 07 March, 2016, 08:00:45 pm »

How about 7.5%?

IMG_1863 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Deano · « **Reply #133 on:** 12 March, 2016, 10:45:13 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.

Deano · « **Reply #134 on:** 12 March, 2016, 10:46:10 pm »

Another oldschool one, which is probably an easier game than Jo's:

Deano · « **Reply #135 on:** 17 March, 2016, 08:46:27 pm »

Bouncing in at 9, Dibdale Bank:

Peter · « **Reply #136 on:** 17 March, 2016, 09:29:37 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 12 March, 2016, 10:45:13 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!

Deano · « **Reply #137 on:** 17 March, 2016, 09:47:19 pm »

Quote from: Peter on 17 March, 2016, 09:29:37 pm

Quote from: Deano on 12 March, 2016, 10:45:13 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, 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.

Peter · « **Reply #138 on:** 17 March, 2016, 10:12:32 pm »

cygnet · « **Reply #139 on:** 19 March, 2016, 04:07:44 pm »

Forest Hill 18%er snapped on the way back home from a club ride.

IMG-20160319-01251 by Alcedoatthis, on Flickr

red marley · « **Reply #140 on:** 30 May, 2016, 08:18:24 pm »

A rare oldskool one in seven, spotted today coming off the Ridgeway near Princes Risborough

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #141 on:** 17 August, 2016, 07:23:14 am »

Another old-style one, on the Hell's Glen road:

mcshroom · « **Reply #142 on:** 23 September, 2016, 10:33:30 pm »

One on the Devon C2C just outside Okehampton

amedias · « **Reply #143 on:** 05 April, 2017, 01:16:11 pm »

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

mcshroom · « **Reply #144 on:** 01 May, 2017, 08:51:09 pm »

At the top of Honister

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.

Salvatore · « **Reply #145 on:** 07 June, 2017, 10:47:21 am »

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,

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #146 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.

sojournermike · « **Reply #147 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

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #148 on:** 26 June, 2017, 03:59:37 pm »

Sign disagrees with OS map, which gives it a chevron for "at least 14%".

telstarbox · « **Reply #149 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!

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