Motoring Oddities EP4 - England's Steepest Road & The Easter Egg Roll Race - Vale Street Bristol 

just like his content

I was going to say the exact same, I love it because its the humour I have too.

Probably why he moved there....

It was probably a lifelong dream of his, to live in a country with steep streets. He probably got bored as a kid, rolling eggs down a makeshift ramp from the family sofa to the floor, so moving to Bristol must've been a dream come true.

Except he was not - The Netherlands' highest "mountain" is about twice the elevation of that in Denmark...

@@MirkoC407 Yes? You learn something every day.

@@christophernewman5027 Indeed - inside Denmark it is somewhat complicated where exactly to go... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EM8yUKwPjwA.html

At first I thought I was watching Tim 😅

Haha this channel has always kinda reminded me of the Tim Traveler.

What is that music ?

Tim Traveller referenced the TV show "Wish you were here...?". Derek - It's "Gordon Giltrap - The Carnival" courtesy of Shazam.

Perhaps showing the typical waste of money, especially re traffic systems in Bristol. P S Plus the incompetence of any roadworks taking ten times as long As needed, to get done.

Yer, what are Colston Buns? Have I been missing something for 43 years?

I can imagine... it's a nightmare.. my clutch did not appreciate the 3 point turn I did off camera.

Cycling down there looks like suicide

@@AutoShenanigans Why do you keep opening your hands while talking ? You look to be trying to mimic TV presenters in a very exaggerated way. Its weird.

Being from the rather flat county of Norfolk (it's not all fens, those are mostly in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, but I do believe Norfolk is the overall flattest county regardless), I for one cannot begin to fathom how anyone rides a bike up hill. I swear it's impossible. Also, I can't fathom why anyone does, since it's much easier to just walk. Well I guess it's good exercise.

@@PiousMoltar I too am from Norfolk and just the slope up a driveway is too much

Bruh why does the US have to be so different? 💀

@@nathanw9770 - The States and the rest of the world aren't different on this point; civil engineers don't use degrees of a circle to design vertical gradients. Rather than use degrees of a circle, civil engineers use either percent of grade or "1 in X feet", or "rate of rise" exclusively. It makes life much easier for the surveyor: Measure out 100 feet ahead, and then raise or lower the elevation according to the percent of grade. Thus a 2.2% grade rises 2.2 feet in every 100 feet. Incidentally, in the U.S., surveyors use range poles marked in 1/10 and 1/100 of a foot, not inches. So going metric isn't any easier. If we used degrees of a circle, we would need trigonometry to lay out a grade -- and before the electronic calculator, the surveyor would have needed a SLIDE RULE or trig table. Neither is fun to use in the field, and there's a good chance of making an expensive mistake.

Thanks for the conversion! Not just for North Americans, Europeans don't use degrees for this. It's only UK that's special...

@@vkdrk - I don't even think UK uses degrees for road gradients. I know that British railroads use the "1 in ___" method that I mentioned. As I explained, if you were using degrees, you would be using trigonometry while laying out the road, and until the electronic calculator was invented, that wasn't practical. Just imagine trying to find the difference between 1 degree and 1.5 degrees on a protractor; you would have to use trig. I really think the Bristol tourism people or whomever is involved tell people 21.81 degrees because most people are not civil engineers. It's probably a simple 40% grade or 1 in 2-1/2.

@@pacificostudios that's what I meant, UK is the only one that doesn't use degrees, the rest of Europe does

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colston_bun

Not just Africa that are starving.. cream egg is a luxury many can't afford in the UK but just think the more chocolate you buy and more Coco beans are required and more demand will be likely to out weigh the demand for coca plants. That will be keeping the poor in other countries in jobs and food etc.

Fantastic to hear, thanks for watching!

I threw them all in the harbour a while back

It's not bad is Brizzle. Nightmare to drive around though

I shall check that out. I believe the steepest road across the UK is in Wales so there's a Wales and Scotland episode due at some point I think.

I am not Scottish, nor a car enthusiast, nor a shenaniganator, but Scotlands Second Steepest Street? Yeah, I'm up for that!

@@AutoShenanigans Yes, it is in Harlech, Gwynedd. It took the 'Guinness Book of Records' accolade from a New Zealand town for 'steepest street in the world' for a few months until the New Zealanders proved that their street was in actual fact steeper. Doesn't matter, Harlech still has its UNESCO world heritage site castle and Welsh Lamb is still the best in the world.

I've went up a 43%angel in Scotland

Scraped it several times but I didn't film it :D

They do taste better than a hot cross bun so that explains it.

isnt that steep. its 19 degrees and not 21

I think you will find that Station Road in Robin Hood bay, North Yorkshire is a 30 degrease hill. Although as it’s no longer a road you are allowed to drive down without a permit I don’t know if it’s still counts…

“A two night stay in Bristol, flying with Thomas Cook costs just…”. From the golden age of British domestic television 😂

@@PrinceBarin77 Yup and failing that there was always teletext holidays haha

Eggs don't have segments. That's oranges.

did it crack you up?

This is 21.81°, which is a lot steeper than 25%.

@@EdVonPelt I've been to both, Porlock is a first gear hill in a small car. You never want to stop on it as you fear you won't get going again Vale Street isn't worth driving up at all. Scary enough coming down. It's insane how steep it is, video doesn't do it justice. However, Porlock climbs for what feels like a mile, Vale Streets steepest segment is only a few meters long

I went up a 43% angle in scotland

@@EdVonPelt Or did he just say "degrees" when he meant "percent"? Nobody measures the gradient of roads in degrees. Ever.

Thanks for watching! :-)

I typed in "Facts about Bristol" into google... what more can you do.

@@AutoShenanigans en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colston_bun

Never mind Colston. Bristol University has the Coldrick astronomical telescope donated to this great seat of learning by my paedophilic ex headmaster!

Its The Carnival by Gordon Giltrap. Tim does a very nice piano version of it to be fair.

@@AutoShenanigans ah it is a Good outro song

No, I think you'll find that a fried egg wont roll down Vale St at all!

Send me an invite for the next one!

@@AutoShenanigans Its a black tie and woolly hat affair. You'd fit in well.

This is like 40% though... Btw I once stayed in Harlech on a family holiday, lovely place.

That's certainly true. I believe, when you average out the gradient across the length of the road, Vale street comes out on top, however I read in places you'll see 33% gradient on chimney bank!!

@@AutoShenanigans having cycled up both, Vale St is steepest at its steepest bit but as an average it probably is Chimney Bank. Vale St a lot easier to go up just due to the length!

@@Dantowey3266s I had chimney bank down at around 14% av gradient, however in places 30%! No doubt it's stupidly steep. I feel we need to find the definitive answer as Wales might be holder of the record!

Oh yeah, i did that last year, walking from Ravenscar to Robin Hood Bay, enjoyed a pint in the bay, but had to walk up that damn hill to get a taxi back to Ravenscar. Was a steep leg killing walk up that hill. The only reason i guess its somewhat overlooked is that the road is kind of restricted to cars for businesses and residents only. Everyone else has to park top of the hill.

I did actually script a bit about that very artwork... I cut the scene out as I discovered it had been painted over and was someones house!

@@AutoShenanigans Thanks for the reply. It wasn't painted over, I think. They cut out the artwork and sold it as far as I recall. I have some freinds who live on that street and I saw the artwork during the lockdown when I was delivering beer to them one afternoon. (My electric bike failed to get up the hill.)

Same with that ET shite, and Titanic. Any wonder people are watching RU-vid instead...

this is the steepest road in england, harlech is in wales :)

Another good strapline for the channel right there.