Percentage road signs

[Riggers]

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.

[billplumtree]

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?

[Pingu]

IMG_1641 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[woollypigs]

You were going down weren't you.

[Chris S]

P1030144 by Pelotonhound, on Flickr

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

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 

Of course, awake and fresh in the morning, we get to go down it again - as per the picture - at enormous speed 

[Pingu]

Top of Glenshee:


IMG_1650 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Pingu]

Pennan - it's a feck of a lot steeper than that at the bottom:


IMG_1665 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[bobb]

Information overload Swiss style:

[Cudzoziemiec]

Is the cyclist with backpack meant to represent children cycling to school?

[bobb]

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

[Euan Uzami]

(it wasn't, i'd just ridden up it sitting down in 3rd which is about 27")

[Arellcat]

Looks a bit like this one. 

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

[Pingu]

And again:


IMG_1746 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Suie hill

[Pedal Castro]

Harringworth, just after the viaduct.

[delthebike]

On the way to Manningtree station.

[sojournermike]

"The Lord giveth and he taketh away"

Goathland, North Yorkshire

and, yes, I believe they mean it

[Peter]

Looks a bit like this one. 

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.

[Deano]

A nice bit of detail from Iran:

[Trull]

Just above Torskavaig on Skye, I had to be careful of the hielan beasts on the descent...

[marcusjb]

"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?

[sojournermike]

"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.

[shyumu]

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.

[Toady]

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.

[Deano]

hill by dean.clementson, on Flickr

[Karla]

Red Bank?