Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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swansonj
Guru
365 m (i just checked the map). Does that count as "high up"?Scotland - somewhere high up on minor road!
As for "Scotland" and "minor road", I'm not making any comment either way, yet. It seems safe enough to confirm "somewhere", though....
swansonj
Guru
Not wanting to be too miserly with my hints, let me expand:
365 m. But this road does go up from here.
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
I was in London at the weekend to see the Van Gogh "experience" in Hyde Park ; there were a load of nutters "skiing" past in the blazing sun. Looked sort of fun, although I did wonder if the risk road rash was worse than with cycling.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Too many trees at the Aviemore place.
swansonj
Guru
I have a vast reservoir of hints ready to use for this one, but I'm determined to ration them to one per day. So here is today's.
Well done for recognising that a ski centre would be one reason that a road might
without going down again. But it isn't the only reason...
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
I thought it might be Wales!
The dead end road up to Marchlyn Mawr reservoir.
Caernarfon
https://maps.app.goo.gl/4BRafpxZPRBwXnYx9
swansonj
Guru
Blimey, if my hint had anything to do with your getting it, that was quick...
The two pumped storage power stations in Wales, Dinorwig and Ffestiniog, both have beautiful access roads to their upper reservoirs, graded for construction traffic so never excessively steep, but with lots of hairpins, and closed to traffic. A joy for cycling.
In fact, there's also a sequence of minor roads all the way from the coast near Bangor to Llanberis that the CEGB upgraded during construction of Dinorwig to take the transformers and cables - they appear on OS maps just as normal yellow roads but if you know which they are, they are significantly easier cycling.
A later clue to this road had it been needed, though strictly one for engineering nerds of a certain sort, would have been: there's not an L6 pylon to be seen in this view😀.
Over to you.
The two pumped storage power stations in Wales, Dinorwig and Ffestiniog, both have beautiful access roads to their upper reservoirs, graded for construction traffic so never excessively steep, but with lots of hairpins, and closed to traffic. A joy for cycling.
In fact, there's also a sequence of minor roads all the way from the coast near Bangor to Llanberis that the CEGB upgraded during construction of Dinorwig to take the transformers and cables - they appear on OS maps just as normal yellow roads but if you know which they are, they are significantly easier cycling.
A later clue to this road had it been needed, though strictly one for engineering nerds of a certain sort, would have been: there's not an L6 pylon to be seen in this view😀.
Over to you.
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roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
It was the one way road and reservoir of clues! I've had that road in mind for a ride, but never managed it yet.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
OK, so here goes.
As always, I'm entirely unsure if this will be trivially easy or very difficult!
Name that road!
As always, I'm entirely unsure if this will be trivially easy or very difficult!
Name that road!
swansonj
Guru
Traws is flatter, I think.
I once constructed a cycle tour around North Wales electricity features. Pentir - Dolgarrog - Cym Dyli - Dinorwig and Marchlyn Mawr - Maentwrog - Porthmadog cables - Trawsfynydd - Ffestiniog and Stwlan. If you want to use the epithet "sad" I won't protest, but it was as good an excuse as any for a week's cycling in glorious country.
I have no idea - but I am now desperate to ride it - on a dry day.
OP
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Trivially simple!
Swiss Hill, Alderley Edge.
So am I! I had pencilled it in for a long Cheshire forum ride, but decided to ride my singlespeed bike and that is definitely NOT a singlespeed hill for me!
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Spot on. This was a pre breakfast ride to working from home, and the light was just perfect.
It's only a couple of miles from our house, so I've ridden it many times, including through the thunderstorm that overwhelmed the dam in nearby Whaley Bridge!
I would recommend keeping to the right hand side, stay in the saddle, weight back, forearms horizontal and in as high a gear as you can turn.
Your turn @ColinJ
