Author Topic: Percentage road signs (Read 55010 times)

Basil · « **Reply #150 on:** June 26, 2017, 05:57:11 pm »

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

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #151 on:** June 27, 2017, 05:21:28 pm »

Quote from: telstarbox on June 26, 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!

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

telstarbox · « **Reply #152 on:** June 27, 2017, 05:46:46 pm »

Quite a few of those around and within the M25.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #153 on:** June 30, 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!

Salvatore · « **Reply #154 on:** July 14, 2017, 09:20:05 am »

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

Pingu · « **Reply #155 on:** July 26, 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:

IMG_9027_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #156 on:** July 31, 2017, 02:57:51 pm »

Quote from: Salvatore on June 07, 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,

This one has now been corrected at both ends.

TigaSefi · « **Reply #157 on:** July 31, 2017, 08:22:39 pm »

Quote from: telstarbox on June 26, 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!

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

Aushiker · « **Reply #158 on:** January 16, 2018, 12:29:35 am »

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 · « **Reply #159 on:** January 16, 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!

Kim · « **Reply #160 on:** January 16, 2018, 12:45:21 pm »

The design of the sign is bugging me...

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #161 on:** January 16, 2018, 01:11:57 pm »

Quote from: Kim on January 16, 2018, 12:45:21 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?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #162 on:** January 16, 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.

Aushiker · « **Reply #163 on:** January 17, 2018, 04:30:24 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on January 16, 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.

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 · « **Reply #164 on:** January 17, 2018, 08:28:11 am »

Quote from: Aushiker on January 16, 2018, 12:29:35 am

What, no roadkill ?

It matches my shiny hat and vest though.

Deano · « **Reply #165 on:** March 11, 2018, 10:28:40 pm »

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 · « **Reply #166 on:** August 22, 2019, 11:00:28 am »

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

bludger · « **Reply #167 on:** August 22, 2019, 11:06:34 am »

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

mzjo · « **Reply #168 on:** October 01, 2020, 10:48:39 am »

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.

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).

andytheflyer · « **Reply #169 on:** October 01, 2020, 11:37:32 am »

Quote from: mzjo on October 01, 2020, 10:48:39 am

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.