Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

Any answers need to be checked on Street View and a plausible link and/or screenshot posted...

To save you the effort this time - no - but you have just reminded me that I wanted to check the gradient of that stretch of road!

That stretch of the A58 has an initial 0.7 km at 2.5% from the traffic lights, and then steepens to average 6.3% for 3.6 km. Not a bad guess, but that climb does have some variation in gradient as well as not being quite so steep.

 

[ColinJ]

Here is another clue... There is a town at the start of the 3 km ramp.

 

[classic33]

Any answers need to be checked on Street View and a plausible link and/or screenshot posted...

To save you the effort this time - no - but you have just reminded me that I wanted to check the gradient of that stretch of road!

That stretch of the A58 has an initial 0.7 km at 2.5% from the traffic lights, and then steepens to average 6.3% for 3.6 km. Not a bad guess, but that climb does have some variation in gradient as well as not being quite so steep.

And for a major part, only has fields on one side, but sheep on both sides.

That pole on the right, in the picture, is leaning the wrong way as well. Towards the bracing wire.

 

[GuyBoden]

This is the profile of today's proposed return leg (put off until another day because of an overlooked family commitment)...

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You might think that you were on the right track here, but...

1. If you calculate the gradients on that profile, you won't find a long stretch at 8.3%
2. When I said "The climb in question is 8.3% average (and very close to that the whole time) for 3 km", I literally did mean very close to the average - the gradient is remarkably consistent. Especially since the road is nowhere near straight... View attachment 640895 I didn't realise how much I rely on micro-rests during easier sections of climbs until I encountered this beast - it just feels relentless!

What software are you using to calculate these gradients?

I've only used RideWithGPS.com which seems inaccurate, with my little undertanding.

 

[GuyBoden]

Looked instantly familiar, I must've seen a photo of it on CC before. When you say 'nice' climb... do you really mean climb?

Slight diversion, concerning a previous NTR, here's Mow Cop, I rode up it very slowly today. the picture shows the steepest section near the pub. I enjoyed the ride, so yes, it's a 'nice' climb, if you ride slowly at your own pace.

 

[MontyVeda]

Slight diversion, concerning a previous NTR, here's Mow Cop, I rode up it very slowly today. the picture shows the steepest section near the pub. I enjoyed the ride, so yes, it's a 'nice' climb, if you ride slowly at your own pace.
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..and the pub's open

 

[ColinJ]

What software are you using to calculate these gradients?

A calculator!

(I use Memory Map to plot the profiles and read the numbers off them.)

Slight diversion, concerning a previous NTR, here's Mow Cop, I rode up it very slowly today. the picture shows the steepest section near the pub. I enjoyed the ride, so yes, it's a 'nice' climb, if you ride slowly at your own pace.
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And if you have a suitably low gear!

 

[GuyBoden]

A calculator!

(I use Memory Map to plot the profiles and read the numbers off them.)


Any you have a suitably low gear!

Yes, and suitably low gears.

Another wrong guess for NTR, the Stwlan Dam climb in Wales is 1.7miles so about 3km, the 9.7% is slightly more than 8.3%, but what a ride.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9...k-no-pi-0-ya214.94383-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

 

[GuyBoden]

Is the NTR in Yorkshire?

 

[ColinJ]

Is the NTR in Yorkshire?

Yes.

Er...

Yes!

 

[MontyVeda]

Yes.

Er...

Yes!

where?

 

[ColinJ]

You lot are slacking!

You have a clue to the direction (shadow of SV camera). You know that the road is (er, yes) in Yorkshire and climbs at 8.3% from a town which is at an elevation of about 190 m. That road ramp reaches an unusually high elevation (by English standards) of 450 m but then carries on even higher.

I don't drive, didn't get a lift, didn't catch a train, and wasn't terribly fit at the time. I prepared for the ride with a lie-in at home, and slept in my own bed after the ride.

 

[MontyVeda]

You lot are slacking!

...

Yes, but it's sunny outside.

edit... it's not! better shut the curtains

 

[MontyVeda]

Wessenden Head Road... just trying to find the exact spot.

here we go

Thank feck for that!

 

[GuyBoden]

Well done, I hope you have measured that 8.3% elevation.