Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

I'm slightly baffled by why this is taking so long!

There are probably less than 20 places to look and it is obviously not about 15 of them...

I have some stuff ready to post in my reply to the person who eventually finds the road but I keep having to cut it from the reply box to post other stuff first!

 

[greenmark]

You're missing out... the grand canyon is better than all of those put together... according to my mum.

If you put the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal and Everest together it would just be a mess of iron, marble and granite. And mostly granite.

 

[MontyVeda]

As usual, Mum is right

 

[Venod]

You could have given us a football related clue, thing is I think I have seen this in person even cycled up it. Elland Road.

 

[MontyVeda]

Elland Road, Riponden!

Oh you bugger Venod!

 

[GuyBoden]

So, it could possibly most probably be in Calderdale.

Well done @Venod . It was on my list. Good game.

 

[ColinJ]

At last!

Yes - Elland Rd leading round the bend up to Ripponden New Bank. Ripponden Old Bank (the original road) is below it and looks a brute. I have never ridden that one but I might give it a go this year. It would be harder, especially over the cobbles, but probably traffic-free.

I couldn't have given the football clue because I am not aware of football facts AND up until last night I called the whole climb Ripponden Bank, not just the bit higher up. Not very observant of me!

Looking down New Bank towards that bend with the peloton whizzing up at a crazy but apparently easy speed ... (I do it at a quarter of that speed, gasping!)



Riding up New Bank!



Over to you again, @Venod !

 

[Venod]

There are two roads in this view, I have used both but only cycled the one going over the duel carriageway, no bonus points for naming both.

Name that road.

 

[ColinJ]

Ooh goody - I haven't had a go for a while!

Horkstow Rd, Barton-upon-Humber.

 

[Venod]

Well done Colin did you spot my bad editing of out of the road name?

I have posted about this road before.

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/y...day-13th-july-2019.249428/page-3#post-5634744

I thought I had done a longer post describing the route but can't find it.

Over to you again @ColinJ

 

[ColinJ]

Well done Colin did you spot my bad editing of out of the road name?

I have posted about this road before.

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/y...day-13th-july-2019.249428/page-3#post-5634744

I thought I had done a longer post describing the route but can't find it.

Over to you again @ColinJ

Ha ha - actually, no I didn't!

I thought it would be the flatlands south of York. A very minor road crossing a dual carriageway, and heading roughly SW judging from the shadows, with pylons in the distance - easy peasy!


I have been hogging the thread recently so I hereby donate the next go to the first person to post. (It will give me more time to think of my next one!)

 

[GuyBoden]

I'll have it, thanks.

 

[GuyBoden]

Thanks @ColinJ

I rode here from Warrington in a day.

Name that road

 

[MontyVeda]

I reckon you've got a good pair of legs so could be as far as the Llyn penninsula.

Plus it looks too uninhabited for the north Wales coast or Lancashire

 

[ColinJ]

I reckon you've got a good pair of legs so could be as far as the Llyn penninsula.

Plus it looks too uninhabited for the north Wales coast or Lancashire

My thinking too, but I haven't spotted it yet.

I did wonder if it might have involved a mega-ride up to the east coast somewhere but I'll have another look at Wales later if nobody else has found it.