Game: Name that road!

[GuyBoden]

Not true - I enjoy flatter rides on my singlespeed bike**.
** Which is currently a twospeed. I move the chain by hand between 2 rings and 2 sprockets and then have to adjust the chain tensioner. My new project is to replace the tensioner with a rear mech. and fit one of those friction shifters that I offered to you thus making the bike into a '1x2'. (If I do that, I may later turn it into a 2x2 by adding the second shifter and a front mech.)

https://bikeraceinfo.com/photo-galleries/derailleurs-1.html
"In the early to mid-1930s a rider probably had three sprockets in the back and one up front. Riding below the chainstay was a pulley wheel which acted as a chain tensioner."

 

[Venod]

I know some of you like a dry-stone wall

And some of us need more information in the picture than that posted, I have no idea where to start looking,

 

[GuyBoden]

I know some of you like a dry-stone wall

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And some of us need more information in the picture than that posted, I have no idea where to start looking,

The rules at the start of this games' thread clearly state:

"There should be something in the picture which would allow the location to be identified or at least an idea of where to start looking. If there appears to be no progress after a reasonable period of time (a day or two, say) you can start to offer clues. Try to choose somewhere not too obvious but not too obscure either - we do want to be able to identify the location without too many clues!"

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/game-name-that-road.227817/#post-5074393

 

[ColinJ]

Yes... I was thinking that some of them are becoming impossible without clues!

Some of mine probably are too, but I do try to sneak in little clues like road signs, transmitter masts, shadows, forests, lakes, significant buildings and so on.

Examples:

 

[Willd]

Yes... I was thinking that some of them are becoming impossible without clues!

Some of mine probably are too, but I do try to sneak in little clues like road signs, transmitter masts, shadows, forests, lakes, significant buildings and so on.

Examples:

OK, I've replaced it with an easier one, same part of the country. Any of mine will be in a 50 mile radius of home.

Some of the ones recently have been very obscure and people have only got them because they've been on holiday in the area, on an audax in the area etc.

 

[robjh]

Sorry to anyone who's still looking up regional variations in dry stone walls, but here's a slightly easier one
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There is a large area of water in the top right corner, yet you say it is within 50 miles of your home, which your profile says is in Rugby. So it's not the coast.
I have a pretty shrewd idea of which body of water I think it should be, but cannot find a road with the right view at the right angle, so I may not be as warm as I thought.

 

[Willd]

There is a large area of water in the top right corner, yet you say it is within 50 miles of your home, which your profile says is in Rugby. So it's not the coast.
I have a pretty shrewd idea of which body of water I think it should be, but cannot find a road with the right view at the right angle, so I may not be as warm as I thought.

It's not water sadly, although it might look like it from the picture, it's large warehouses with the sun reflecting off them

 

[GuyBoden]

A big clue is that they are definitely hills in the top right corner

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is that a motorway before the warehousing?

 

[robjh]

Is that a motorway before the warehousing?

Certainly looks like motorway, or a major trunk road with those lorries on it. And somewhere in the South Midlands.

I need to view this on a bigger screen, I missed the road entirely first time as well as seeing a large non-existant bay.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Likely M1, M45 or M6

 

[GuyBoden]

Likely M1, M45 or M6

Too depressing looking at all those motorways.

 

[MontyVeda]

when warehouses was mentioned, I instantly thought of the huge Magna Park complex just east of Lutterworth. But looking at the maps, there appears to be another just north of Rugby and one at Crick... and more further afield.

Could easily be a very busy trunk road rather than a motorway

 

[ColinJ]

I found a view that was looking promising but it wasn't the right road.

Too depressing looking at all those motorways.

Don't concentrate on the motorways - enjoy the industrial estates!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

C'mon, its a large warehouse near a busy road in a nondescript part of the Midlands.

It's not like there's hundreds of possibilities