Game: Name that road!

[Ming the Merciless]

Is that a dam up ahead ?

 

[Mr Celine]

Looks uphill, but either you're Bradley Wiggins or the speed indicates a down slope.

I can confirm that I'm not Bradley Wiggins.

Mid day with the sun dead ahead - I conclude you are heading south. Unless you are in the southern hemisphere ...........

The roolz say it has to be in the UK, which is all in the northern hemisphere. This ride was during BST so about 15 degrees less than south, depending on the time of local solar noon.

I noticed that. I reckon it is the uphill slope out of a dip which has just been descended into at speed. Maybe even that first dip on the profile on the GPS?

That isn't a GPS profile it's my heart rate! The descent has slackened somewhat but the road continues downhill towards... a summit!

Is that a dam up ahead ?

No.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I think there's a giant chicken on top of this tree

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I think there's a giant chicken on top of this tree
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Could just be a small tree

 

[Mr Celine]

Perhaps my cycling speed put me in the realm of sprinters. Your speed in naming this road reminds me more of pacers.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

North of England, Wales, Scotland type scenery it looks to me.

 

[Aravis]

I thought it was this road from the start. I had stopped too soon, but when I saw Friday's clue I was persuaded to continue further down:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.2...4!1sfueXNAN9ps_I2zAFXNrAXQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

 

[Aravis]

That was me🤣.
That offends my OCD no more! 👍

I actually found it worse. I know it's there...

 

[Mr Celine]

Well done @Aravis . No one seems to have spotted the train in the background - this is the view round the corner.

The Waverley Route Heritage Association play with trains at Whitrope Summit and have two sets of Pacers, a class of train which thankfully never saw service in Scotland. In my previous photo the trackbed of the Waverley line has just emerged from the (partially collapsed) Whitrope Tunnel but is still climbing at 1 in 90 towards its summit, whereas I was already bombing downhill from mine.

Over to you.

 

[ColinJ]

No one seems to have spotted the train in the background - this is the view round the corner.

I certainly did NOT. I must start looking a bit more closely at bigger pictures on my laptop rather than smaller ones on my phone - I thought that the train was light reflecting off water!

 

[Aravis]

Careful positioning here means that google doesn't plaster to road number over the image because it thinks I'm on the joining road, which does have a name:

 

[robjh]

Careful positioning here means that google doesn't plaster to road number over the image because it thinks I'm on the joining road, which does have a name:

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It reminds me a lot of the Wiltshire downs around Marlborough, but I can't find a view that matches, and there are few distinct landmarks to go on.

 

[ColinJ]

... and there are few distinct landmarks to go on.

It looks like there is a tower or a pylon in the distance beyond the road?

 

[Aravis]

It looks like there is a tower or a pylon in the distance beyond the road?

Indeed. You'd like to see a closer view of it?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It looks like there is a tower or a pylon in the distance beyond the road?

Looks like phone mast