Game: Name that road!

[GuyBoden]

I thought there were only checkpoints and not a fixed GPS route?

This is indeed true for an audax.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I thought there were only checkpoints and not a fixed GPS route?

If it's anything like an ordinary Audax there will be a recommended route provided by the organiser, that you don't have to follow, and controls that you do have to visit. And the controls will be such that pretty much everyone will go the same way anyway I think.

 

[MontyVeda]

I'm fairly certain I've looked at every inch from Edinburgh to London and still can't find it. I presume that's the actual GPs data from Ming's LEL ride?

He does have form for getting north and south mixed up, though, i seem to recall

 

[lazybloke]

If it's anything like an ordinary Audax there will be a recommended route provided by the organiser, that you don't have to follow, and controls that you do have to visit. And the controls will be such that pretty much everyone will go the same way anyway I think.

Sounds fair, I was just raising the possibility that the photo might not be on an official route.

(unless the specific route already been confirmed? Must confess I've not been watcHing too closely!)

 

[GuyBoden]

Sounds fair, I was just raising the possibility that the photo might not be on an official route.

(unless the specific route already been confirmed? Must confess I've not been watcHing too closely!)

I agree with you, I did actually think that at the time too, but I dismissed it, because that would have resulted in even more searching.

@Ming the Merciless we need a simpler clue, please?

 

[Aravis]

The first thing I thought when seeing the picture was that the road is of non-standard construction; concrete sections with a thin layer of tarmac on top. I've seen nothing like that on any roads I've looked at between London and Edinburgh.

Didn't Ming once throw us off the scent with a misleading file name? It looks like Salisbury Plain to me.

 

[ColinJ]

Found it! Details to follow very shortly...

Royston Ln near Saffron Walden.

What really caught me out was that there are no chevrons on the OS map there. I was expecting there to be 1 or even 2!

 

[ColinJ]

I just checked... The steepest part isn't enough to merit a chevron - roughly 12%/1:8.

It looks much steeper than that but that would be because of the flatness of the surrounding terrain.

Not normally a killer hill, but I wouldn't fancy it towards the end of LEL!

 

[MontyVeda]

Thank feck for that.

 

[GuyBoden]

Well done @ColinJ , that's a bit bit further down the Strethall Road that I posted yesterday, before the "Border" clue took me to Scotland, before the google street view pic was posted.

Edit: I'm wondering, if you could post a Google Street view pic, as I can't get the exact pic.

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This pic from yesterday:

 

[GuyBoden]

The LEL GPS route posted didn't contain Royston Lane as part of the Audax route. As @lazybloke suspected.

 

[T4tomo]

exactly - shoot clue at @Ming the Merciless - I suggest a yellow card and a 3 Match ban....

 

[GuyBoden]

I'd found it yesterday, but I couldn't find a hill any where, so I asked for google street view pic.

The original pic posted looked like a hill. All good fun.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Found it! Details to follow very shortly...

Royston Ln near Saffron Walden.

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What really caught me out was that there are no chevrons on the OS map there. I was expecting there to be 1 or even 2!

Well done Colin

 

[ColinJ]

Ok, here is my next one... I think it should be found very quickly because I have carefully included enough features to help identify it. (I have clues which can be given later if I am wrong.)

Fastest finger first... Name That Road!