Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

Ah, I see you've got it all worked out too. Quite easy to find the road in the end, wasn't it?

I haven't got a clue what road it is... I was sneakily keeping my Clash insight secret while I worked on finding it!

 

[Tribansman]

Hopefully, he has just been busy doing other things for a few days?

Really appreciate the concern @MontyVeda but Colin was right, just crazy busy with work and looking after Mini and Mrs T who've been a bit poorly.

Will catch up with this thread today, it's a great stress reliever and never cease to be amazed by everyone's ingenuity and detective skills! Well done Colin, good find. Absolutely loved cycling this road during a week's riding round Dumfries and Galloway

 

[Buck]

It’s the weekend ! Do we get another clue?

I’ve exhausted my potentials from the earlier clues and clearly not on the same wavelength!

 

[Mr Celine]

No more clues but you can eliminate from your searches such places as Sexpistolsveto, Damnedprohibit and Slitsembargo.

 

[Aravis]

How could I have failed to recognise it for so long? A road I've had the pleasure of riding (in 1983).
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.9...4!1sfkJDqyP9uXETJHNOL5tWSA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

For completeness, it's Locbuie Road, near Bonar Bridge.

 

[Buck]

and the clues led to Clashban.

Well done @Aravis

 

[Dogtrousers]

Phew!

 

[Mr Celine]

I was staying at Invershin for a week last October and went out for loop past Lairg and Rogart and intended going south across the Dornoch Bridge, but a mile on the A9 past Loch Fleet was more than enough, so I diverted inland up a very quiet and scenic climb through oakwoods and with some lovely waterfalls. The descent into Bonar Bridge was also good fun.
But there's nothing there on which to base a clue, though Clashban in the section of bleak moorland in the middle clearly had potential.
For postbox fans the postbox is on @classic33 's list as Sleastary.

Unfortunately I have been hoist by my own petard in that I have been plagued with Clash earworms for several days.

Over to you @Aravis

 

[Aravis]

You've set the bar so high now, @Mr Celine. I shall have to start coming up with harder clues.

I've thought of one I must get for the future. Street View images don't quite do it justice.

But for the moment I'll offer one that should be easily researchable without the need for any clues:

 

[ColinJ]

But for the moment I'll offer one that should be easily researchable without the need for any clues:

Yes... It took me 3 minutes to find it HERE!

I can't see a name for that road in Bricklehampton, but I knew I was on the right track as soon as I spotted that the ToB 2019 TT was in the area that you have posted pictures from before. I found a GPX file of the TT route, loaded it into Memory Map and looked for a LH bend with a no-through-road off it.

 

[Aravis]

Yep, absolutely right of course @ColinJ. I may well have posted that image before - Mikel Landa languishing well down the GC.

Over to you again.

 

[ColinJ]

You will probably get this one without me giving any clues but I will definitely be able to come up with a good clue if I have to!

 

[Aravis]

From the intro I thought this must be something well-known like the shore of Loch Eil, and I was thinking I'd better not solve it too quickly. So much for that.

Then I thought it could be Mull, but nothing there seems anything like it. The castley thing is probably distinctive. I thought could be Eilean Donan, but the road on the other side of the loch looks nothing like the picture.

Definitely tidal water, looking more northwards than south, but really I have nothing at all.

 

[ColinJ]

... really I have nothing at all.

Not true - you do have...

The castley thing...

Which I made sure was in the picture and you spotted!

It IS tidal water and it IS looking more northwards than south.

 

[Speicher]

It looks like North Ballachulis to me.