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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #100 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:

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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #101 on: 26 July, 2014, 09:30:32 pm »
Suie Hill yet again:


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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #102 on: 29 July, 2014, 09:56:46 pm »



Bottom of the Devils Staircase in mid Wales.

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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #103 on: 29 July, 2014, 09:59:04 pm »
Can't be - it's not raining.
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #104 on: 29 July, 2014, 10:15:02 pm »



It was an absolutely glorious day. This is the road between Abergwesyn and Tregaron going towards the Staircase. Wonderful.

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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #105 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.
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #106 on: 03 September, 2014, 07:18:12 pm »

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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #107 on: 04 September, 2014, 10:57:28 am »
Chalk Pit Lane Near Oxted


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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #108 on: 05 September, 2014, 02:57:27 am »

At the junction of CA-4 and CA-89 near Markleeville.
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #109 on: 06 September, 2014, 11:44:30 pm »
I like the sign just beyond it: Snow not removed beyond here.
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #110 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
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #111 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
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #112 on: 12 June, 2015, 02:01:31 pm »
Park Rash:


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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #113 on: 12 June, 2015, 02:47:48 pm »
Park Rash:

Is that the COR version of road rash?
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #114 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   :)
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #115 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):


Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #116 on: 25 February, 2016, 02:11:44 pm »
Park Rash:




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

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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #117 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  :)
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #118 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?


Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #119 on: 27 February, 2016, 09:53:43 am »
Grassington  :) .
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #120 on: 06 March, 2016, 10:07:20 pm »
A comparatively rare 15 percenter near Bedham West Sussex spotted today.



Which makes we wonder whether...

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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #121 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.


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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #122 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.



POTD

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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #123 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?
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Re: Percentage road signs
« Reply #124 on: 06 March, 2016, 10:15:00 pm »
A comparatively rare 15 percent near Bedham West Sussex spotted today.



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).
Right! What's next?

Ooooh. That sounds like a daft idea.  I am in!