Game: Name that road!

[Aravis]

Is it Kingsdale, heading south towards Ingleton, with Whernside in the distance?

 

[ColinJ]

Is it Kingsdale, heading south towards Ingleton, with Whernside in the distance?

We have a winner!

Yes, we were heading south (ish) but the camera is pointing north (ish).

It definitely would have been cheating for SoV to answer, as this photo shows (SoV in yellow) ...!

We were waiting for @rusty bearing to catch up. He'd suffered a puncture way back and we hadn't noticed that he was no longer with us! Probably my fault - I am a bit hard of hearing so I could have missed hearing him shout.

I think PMing someone who you know knows the answer probably IS cheating!

The cheating that I had in mind was searching my forum rides for the ones I have done in the Yorkshire Dales. It wouldn't have taken long to find those photos!

Your turn, @Aravis!

 

[ColinJ]

Mavis Enderby.

If I had to guess, would that be a Lincolnshire joke? (The flattest part of the UK, or something? )

 

[ColinJ]

I suppose that 'cheating' is a very strong word ... 'Not in the spirit of the game' would be more like it!

 

[Aravis]

OK then - I was going to plead to be allowed to use something from over the channel. But after scanning an old slide of the final few yards of ascent to the summit of the Puy Mary I found that the guy in the picture isn't me after all!

So heres a somewhat more local one:

 

[ColinJ]

It is a distinctive bridge, but I don't recognise it. I haven't spent much time in the Gloucester area though so that isn't surprising.

 

[Aravis]

The river has a very short name, and that's not a question.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Can we jump in at random??
A simple one

 

[Spinney]

The river has a very short name, and that's not a question.

Hah! A bridge over the Wye somewhere. But I have no idea where, so we're not at the answer yet.

 

[Aravis]

Hah! A bridge over the Wye somewhere. But I have no idea where, so we're not at the answer yet.

Unfortunately not. That wasn't quite what I was trying to imply.

A couple more clues. It's very close to the town of the same name as the river, and over 18000 riders have posted times on the Strava segments on this road, making it one of the most popular I know of - in my area at least.

 

[Aravis]

That'll be Chain Bridge Road over the Usk.

Haha - so confident of winning you've already posted you entry! You're right of course.

Annoyingly, Chain Bridge has been reduced to a single lane controlled by traffic lights since I used to ride that way regularly from Bristol in the 1980s, but it's a great landmark.

I think that @Richard A Thackeray's bridge is Ferrybridge over the river Aire.

 

[ColinJ]

Can we jump in at random??
A simple one

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It's a nice picture but the idea is to take it in rounds and wait until the current picture poster confirms that you are right - even if you know that you are!

The winner posts the next picture and so on. If we all start posting pictures then it just becomes another 'show us something nice' thread rather than a game.

Anyway, I have an idea about Smegger's picture. I'll check it on Street View. If it isn't the one that I am thinking of, then it looks pretty similar ... (Nope - I don't know it!)

 

[ColinJ]

Ah, yes - that is on my cycling to-do list - Bwlch y Groes!

 

[Spinney]

We have a winner

I like all those arrows. Very clear signal that Spinney does not wish to attempt that road! Mr Spinney has done it, although I'm not sure which way.

 

[Spinney]

It wasn't that bad TBH and I wasn't particulary fit at the time.

Maybe it should be a target for me then. I did the Bealach Na Ba with a friend, but up the shallower side with at least two stops for chocolate!