Misleading hill signage

[westofsouth]

I can't ride up a 1:3, but I rode up this one on Exmoor - on a lightly loaded LHT.
Anyone else been misled?
[it wasn't easy ]

[meic]

It only needs a certain length of road to qualify for the steepness warning.
Possibly the other 1:3s that you have ridden maintained it for a greater length.

[Tigger]

Um, so... did you whizz back down to take a pic of the sign? Or take a pic of the sign before you started? But then again it looks like you might be taller than the sign, so what were you standing on?! Sorry, I need these things expaining

There's no way I'd stop to take the pic cos I'd be looking for all the momentum I could get

[gaz]

There's a 9% slope near me, frankly I can't see the point in signing it*, I'm certainly not going to dignify it by calling it a hill.

What we need of course is some kind of reliable system that's easy for cyclists to understand. I wonder who could do something like that?

* not least because it's only an access road to a private golf course, never mind the fact that you can see the bottom from the top.

Edit: Fixed link

[westofsouth]

Picture courtesy of Google Streetview. The long steep bit is around the bend at the top...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll= ... 95.07,,0,0

[rjb]

A lot of the old signs on exmoor have been "upgraded" to comply with current legislation. A lot of the old ones have disappeared - i quite liked the original sign at Challacombe which said "No Charabangs" now replaced with a blue sign about heavy good vehicles. Even the "cyclist advised to dismount and walk" signs coming down countisbury hill into lynmouth have gone and been replaced by blue advisory "cyclists dismount" signs

[Tigger]

Picture courtesy of Google Streetview

Aha, that explains things! Doesn't look like 1:3 - long but not as steep as the short (ungraded) hill I rode today, which nearly killed me! - tho hard to tell from Streetview.

[Redvee]

There is a hill with an undefined slope I have to climb to get home, ie vertical. Over the years I've managed to get up it on my bike though most of the time I still walk up it.

[Swallow]

Rode the Dartmoor Classic last month and told one of the locals that we had to cycle up Holne, she said bloody hell, you need first gear in the car for that one. As it happened we didn't have to go up that way due to a fallen tree blocking the road. I live in Cornwall which I thought is hilly but Dartmoor is something else.

[westofsouth]

...just an afterthought - has anyone else seen a 1:3 road sign lately?

[Swallow]

Blue Hills, St Agnes, down here in Cornwall has parts marked 33% which I believe is 1in3

[thirdcrank]

...just an afterthought - has anyone else seen a 1:3 road sign lately?

Here's a link to a post of a pic with Mick F standing in front of one. I don't know if he turned round and saw the sign - he-d just ridden up the hill it refers to. I certainly saw the sign (I took the pictute.) There's another shot of him by the sign at the bottom so he must have seen that one as well. I know he had also seen another earlier on that day's ride from Whitby.

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=64201&p=548320&hilit=rosedale#p548320

[Mick F]

Thanks TC.
Yeah, good hill that Rosedale Chimney!

Here's a 33% hill - Egton Hill in N Yorks. I went down that, but at the bottom, the road bends and climbs up an equally steep hill the other side.

[rjb]

...just an afterthought - has anyone else seen a 1:3 road sign lately?

No but here's a 1 in 4 not too far from you. I think you may find this one more of a challenge.

http://goo.gl/maps/jWOr



Who's next for the 1 in 5

[westofsouth]

...know the area reasonably well. Not cycled up it, but walked up a footpath nearby on a Nether Stowey to Crowcombe (and back) hill walk - usually after a big meal at the Carew Arms