Game: Name that road!

[Milkfloat]

I reckon that is the M25. Given that you cycled on it in 1982 it must be the last section to be opened, between J25 and J27. The photo must be taken from an overpass of some sort. If it is from a road bridge, I haven't found it yet!

I think you are right in that it is the M25 , but at Chorleywood

Ahh beaten to it. I was just getting the image too.

Second edit - https://www.google.com/maps/@51.648...4!1sHBhF4zCBuxCAz5Lwe_30lg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I thought that - looks like limestone so either some part of the Cotswolds, Yorkshire or the Dorset/Portland area?

That stone work is also found in Northants

 

[Aravis]

So what was it called when I rode it?

Only kidding, over to you @Willd.

Link to source image:

https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=File:M25_Junction_18.jpg#filelinks

 

[Aravis]

You all spotted the clue, right?

 

[Dogtrousers]

This is what I was remembering

The M25 was built in stages, as Wikipedia confirms, though detail seems a bit sketchy. The section around Rickmansworth was a fully-functioning pseudo-motorway well before final completion of the M25 in 1986, and I know I rode that way a number of times in the first half of that decade.

The instances I can remember reasonably accurately were rides in the summers of 1981 and 1982. Also working up an appetite for Christmas dinner, probably in 1985, and there were one or two others. My recollection is that I always used what is now the M25 to bypass Watford and Rickmansworth.

If it can be proven this wasn't possible as early as summer '82 I'll have to accept my memory is faulty. Where's Strava when you need it?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You all spotted the clue, right?

One I would have got had I seen it before now.

 

[ColinJ]

Damn - I was beaten by seconds too! (I did an elevation profile of the M25 and looked for a dip with those bends around it.)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Damn - I was beaten by seconds too! (I did an elevation profile of the M25 and looked for a dip with those bends around it.)

I’ve driven it often enough I knew where but only just checked in on the forum.

 

[Aravis]

This is what I was remembering

I'd forgotten it.

 

[ColinJ]

You all spotted the clue, right?

I do NOW! (Not being from those parts I had never heard of Chorleywood.)

 

[Willd]

 

[T4tomo]

My recollection is that I always used what is now the M25 to bypass Watford and Rickmansworth. -

As likely to be the lanes through Chandlers Cross, which have always been there. I don't think that section of the M25 covered another road, but I might be wrong, or I might be misinterpreting what you wrote

I knew where it was but declined to answer on the ground i was laughing that some clown had put up part of the motorway network!

 

[T4tomo]

I do NOW! (Not being from those parts I had never heard of Chorleywood.)

Have you never eaten white bread?

 

[Dogtrousers]

As likely to be the lanes through Chandlers Cross, which have always been there. I don't think that section of the M25 covered another road, but I might be wrong, or I might be misinterpreting what you wrote

From @Aravis previous post I think what happened was the motorway section was built but not opened as a motorway for some time. Which provided a road with a whacking great big cyclepath down the side.

 

[ColinJ]

Have you never eaten white bread?

Unfortunately, yes - but not recently! I'm not sure what that has to do with Chorleywood - is that where the horrid stuff is 'manufactured'? (It feels wrong to call it 'baked'... )