Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

Just outside Watford then

Let's say somewhere between Derby and the Scottish Border. I'm not yet giving you a clue as to which one it is nearer to...

 

[ColinJ]

While you are thinking about the current road, here is a short distraction...

Where's the last bit of pavé? Looks well worth a visit...

I wouldn't try down, but it's on my list for up now. Harder than Trooper Lane?

I just found this video of the top of the Buttress climb.



(I started to ride DOWN that bit, chickened out, braked, and fell off! )

 

[Gillstay]

And here was me thinking it looked more like Gloucestershire (though that wouldn't be local for Colin, he seems to have cycled everywhere).

I was thinking similar as it looks to be on a limestone escarpment.

 

[ColinJ]

Another minor clue:

In case you can't tell from the shadow of the trees... we are looking approximately SE.

 

[Aravis]

Colin, are you trying to bring your thread to an end?

 

[robjh]

I even resorted to a google image search, centering on those signs, and still nothing. There are a lot of 16% hills north of a line through Derby.

 

[ColinJ]

Colin, are you trying to bring your thread to an end?

Er, no...

Okay - surprise, surprise - it is somewhere in Yorkshire!

If that doesn't help in the next day or so, then I will summarise what you can see and what I have hinted at...

 

[robjh]

Er, no...

Okay - surprise, surprise - it is somewhere in Yorkshire!

If that doesn't help in the next day or so, then I will summarise what you can see and what I have hinted at...

I was looking in East Yorkshire, as that doesn't look like the Dales. Found a lot of nice climbs in the Wolds that I'd like to try one day, but not the one in Colin's picture.

 

[ColinJ]

Warm, but not hot!

 

[geocycle]

Ooh, that picture sent my memory running! I think it featured on my first cycle camping tour aged 15 with my mate. He was on a Carlton with 10 gears, I was on my 5 speed Viking superstar. If it’s the one I think it is I recall the climb and dismounting backwards as the front wheel lifted. The heavy stuff was in home made panniers on the back!

 

[GuyBoden]

Ooh, that picture sent my memory running! I think it featured on my first cycle camping tour aged 15 with my mate. He was on a Carlton with 10 gears, I was on my 5 speed Viking superstar. If it’s the one I think it is I recall the climb and dismounting backwards as the front wheel lifted. The heavy stuff was in home made panniers on the back!

so, @geocycle you are thinking, "a first camping trip to Castle Howard. Also remember rides around Pickering and edge of NY Moors."

 

[ColinJ]

so, @geocycle you are thinking, "a first camping trip to Castle Howard. Also remember rides around Pickering and edge of NY Moors."

 

[geocycle]

so, @geocycle you are thinking, "a first camping trip to Castle Howard. Also remember rides around Pickering and edge of NY Moors."

It wouldn’t be fair of me to give clues to @ColinJ puzzle!

 

[GuyBoden]

I don't really understand what a whistling emoji means @ColinJ ?

I'm enjoying this NTR, as I have a bad hip from a car knocking me off my bike, so have plenty of time to search.

It wouldn’t be fair of me to give clues to @ColinJ puzzle!

Yes, that's only fair.

 

[MontyVeda]

Hope you're OK @GuyBoden