Percentage road signs

[Basil]

 
And I'm now following.  Sometimes I just embarrass myself.

[Cudzoziemiec]

You lot might enjoy this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/BritishSigns

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

And a relatively uncommon three-figure B road number. <geek out>

[telstarbox]

Quite a few of those around and within the M25.

[phantasmagoriana]

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!

[Salvatore]

Not a percentage. Somewhere in the maze of lanes north of Petersfield.

[Pingu]

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:


IMG_9027_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Cudzoziemiec]

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.

[TigaSefi]

You lot might enjoy this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/BritishSigns

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

Yay I found this sign the other week! Gotta love Titsey Hill.

[Aushiker]

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

[Cudzoziemiec]

Everything in that photo looks 'big'. Big scrubby land, big hill, big blue sky with a big sun shining bigly on it!

[Kim]

The design of the sign is bugging me...

[mrcharly-YHT]

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?

[Cudzoziemiec]

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.

[Aushiker]

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

[Aunt Maud]

What, no roadkill ?

It matches my shiny hat and vest though.

[Deano]

Hawnby, North Yorks Moors.



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

[Salvatore]

Have we had an 18%er yet? About 2 km SW of Bridgnorth.

[bludger]

Barhatch from the tour of the hills. The last climb of the day and the gnarliest!