Bike pic mission game, if anyone wants to play.
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Next Mission: More than 10% Grade
subgrade, I was going to wait for your approval of that abomination but it's 06:00 Riga time and I got a mob forming over here..
I would really like to see a road grade warning sign steeper than 10%.
The south Texas plains are not known for their varied topography. We just don't have much up and down on our ground. Here's a picture from nearby:
Miserable south Texas topography.
I'd like to see a picture reminding me that there's more out there in the world than the paltry grades we have around here. Even one more percentage point will help.
So the mission is your bike in front of a grade warning sign showing more than 10%.
I would really like to see a road grade warning sign steeper than 10%.
The south Texas plains are not known for their varied topography. We just don't have much up and down on our ground. Here's a picture from nearby:
Miserable south Texas topography.
I'd like to see a picture reminding me that there's more out there in the world than the paltry grades we have around here. Even one more percentage point will help.
So the mission is your bike in front of a grade warning sign showing more than 10%.
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Living on the Mississippi river, the bluffs offer many roads with grades above 10%....signs indicating such steep grades however are not so common.
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Very few >10% road grade warning sins around here, so I guess I'll sit this one out.
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Oh hey,
Some small indication of the wind going on right now, which is about 7mph from every direction at once. In other news and unrelated to the topic at hand, that wind does make for some vistas.
Which would be my assignment, if my submission is satisfactory: that's the kind of picture the city council would put on the brochure to try to get more people to move here or buy things here. So show me something that would be in the travel brochure, even if it's a lie. That pic makes it look like I live someplace fancy... which I don't.
Some small indication of the wind going on right now, which is about 7mph from every direction at once. In other news and unrelated to the topic at hand, that wind does make for some vistas.
Which would be my assignment, if my submission is satisfactory: that's the kind of picture the city council would put on the brochure to try to get more people to move here or buy things here. So show me something that would be in the travel brochure, even if it's a lie. That pic makes it look like I live someplace fancy... which I don't.
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Sorry I couldn't help myself.... Lol
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There are some, but nowhere near as many as in Central Europe. We have quite a lot of manor houses, many of which are built like small palaces, but sadly many of these are in various states of disrepair.
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I can't think of a warning sign noting +10% grade anywhere near me, and I'm right below Onyx Summit (which sits at 8,443ft.) Highways are limited to 7%, and two-lanes that go beyond that (I know of several places hitting +15%) aren't marked as such. A couple of nearby residential streets are 13% for extended periods, say a quarter mile or more, but no signs indicating it.
I Google-mapped to three local streets I know to exceed 12%, and none of them have so much as a "hey, this street is steep" sign. There's a nearby reservoir access road that hits 25%, but no sign on that one either.
I Google-mapped to three local streets I know to exceed 12%, and none of them have so much as a "hey, this street is steep" sign. There's a nearby reservoir access road that hits 25%, but no sign on that one either.
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Just rode over to and up (and down) College Street, which is supposed to be the second steepest in town, allegedly 32%. I dunno about that, I just know it's steep. But, alas, no sign!!
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We may have met our match. Where I live I doubt there is more than a 5 degree grade anywhere close....
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I suspect someone will get this one soon.
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Mission: Slope Sign Countdown
Wow. I figured this would be a slam-dunk for y'all.
I'm thinking the explanation is that it is so flat here, the locals need lots of advance warning of anything that doesn't look like a pool table. So that's why we've got these signs all over..
In the interest of getting this done, I'll adopt a mr. bill countdown:
1/11: 8% acceptable
1/12: 6% acceptable (this is interstate highway max grade so I wouldn't expect to see any lower number)
1/13: Any slope warning at all acceptable
As I said, we've got 'em all over..
We got 'em all over....
I'm thinking the explanation is that it is so flat here, the locals need lots of advance warning of anything that doesn't look like a pool table. So that's why we've got these signs all over..
In the interest of getting this done, I'll adopt a mr. bill countdown:
1/11: 8% acceptable
1/12: 6% acceptable (this is interstate highway max grade so I wouldn't expect to see any lower number)
1/13: Any slope warning at all acceptable
As I said, we've got 'em all over..
We got 'em all over....
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Originally Posted by mutcd
02 The Hill sign and supplemental grade (W7-3P) plaque (see Section 2C.57) used in combination, or the W7-1a sign used alone, should be installed in advance of downgrades for the following conditions:
- 5% grade that is more than 3,000 feet in length,
- 6% grade that is more than 2,000 feet in length,
- 7% grade that is more than 1,000 feet in length,
- 8% grade that is more than 750 feet in length, or
- 9% grade that is more than 500 feet in length.
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