Game: Name that road!

[Aravis]

Can we do this one as 20 questions?

 

[ColinJ]

Q1: What is the name of the road?

 

[Mike_P]

Is there a web site of cr*p NCNs (in a road bike sense) as that ones looks not that good, a prime candidate for why NCN signs should have some indication of the type of bike they are suitable for.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Is there a web site of cr*p NCNs (in a road bike sense) as that ones looks not that good, a prime candidate for why NCN signs should have some indication of the type of bike they are suitable for.

Yeah the Sustrans maps are absolutely crap on this point too. No idea if you're getting smooth tarmac or full-sus MTB rocks.

 

[T4tomo]

Q1: What is the name of the road?

It doesn't have one

@Aravis I'll drop a few clues in as we go on...

 

[cougie uk]

Yeah the Sustrans maps are absolutely crap on this point too. No idea if you're getting smooth tarmac or full-sus MTB rocks.

In my experience even the roads need some kind of mountain bike ! Crazy steep inclines and broken up tarmac.

 

[T4tomo]

Wow, not a lot to work with. Looks like a NCN going off to the left.

also another 2 signs above the NCN one, one of which is significant.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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Got it straight away, it drops down to Stow on the Wold

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5d4ABdjuFPcpw2wA6?g_st=ic

 

[T4tomo]

Got it straight away, it drops down to Stow on the Wold

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5d4ABdjuFPcpw2wA6?g_st=ic

spot on, well it must go up to Stow as Stow is at the top of the hill

as well as being NCN 48, its also the Monarch's Way, which is a long distance byway which I have ridden on there, and in the south downs. its allegedly the route the previous King Charles went on whilst fleeing Cromwell.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

spot on, well it must go up to Stow as Stow is at the top of the hill

as well as being NCN 48, its also the Monarch's Way, which is a long distance byway which I have ridden on there, and in the south downs. its allegedly the route the previous King Charles went on whilst fleeing Cromwell.

I’ve normally stuck to road then dropped down on A429 , but looking at course the track goes up as well. I knew where it was straight away as I run a 400 km audax going that way and I looked at the track whilst deciding on my routing.

Right time to dig out a road. I now wished I’d taken a picture of a road I was on, on Tuesday now, as it would have been perfect for this thread.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Here we go, name this road

 

[nomisp]

 

[ColinJ]

Yeah the Sustrans maps are absolutely crap on this point too. No idea if you're getting smooth tarmac or full-sus MTB rocks.

In my experience even the roads need some kind of mountain bike ! Crazy steep inclines and broken up tarmac.

Or even... COBBLES!!!

 

[nomisp]

Went pass this on on the bus this afternoon , passed it many times on bike rides. Nomisp

 

[robjh]

Went pass this on on the bus this afternoon , passed it many times on bike rides. Nomisp

Where is it?