Signpost Rally

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The annual Signpost Rally – find 12 signposts, spread around some 80 miles of roads, from their photographs and a map. Answer the clue questions to prove you’ve visited them. A magnificent way to spend a day!

 

2016

They’re not supposed to look like this!
And where to now?!
Red ‘un and blue ‘un.
Lunch time…
Lunch done, map checks done, zip…. and go!

2019

Bike, fence, cottage!
Somewhere in deepest Somerset a Panther rider works out where to go next…
Problems….
It’s surprising what you come across!
I must be on the right track – I’ve seen this guy before!

2022

Creech Village Hall, 9:30am - very quiet outside...
Creech Village Hall, 9:30am – very quiet outside…
inside, signposters at work! (Or getting more tea and biscuits!)
…inside, signposters at work! (Or getting more tea and biscuits!)
Usual suspects...
Usual suspects…
Characterful finger-post...
Characterful finger-post…
...clue answer in view above characterful bike!
…clue answer in view above characterful bike!
Some clue answers are a lot easier to read...
Some clue answers are a lot easier to read…
...than others!
…than others!
Cracking roads...
Cracking roads…
...cracking views (and cracking weather!)
…cracking views (and cracking weather!)
Verification check! (Norton 500T from Cornwall)
Verification check! (Norton 500T from Cornwall)
Not a lunch stop - just parked up (tempted though)...
Not a lunch stop – just parked up (tempted though)…
...lunch stop was here (lovely sunshine)!
…lunch stop was here (lovely sunshine)!
Big red Laverda RGS, with eventual Rally winners ( at least the bike's the right colour!)
Big red Laverda RGS, with eventual Rally winners ( at least the bike’s the right colour!)

2023 – this year, only the brave

Very grey compared with 2022!
Very grey compared with 2022!
Bikes - some social run, some signpost(1)
Bikes – some social run, some signpost(1)
Bikes - some social run, some signpost(2)
Bikes – some social run, some signpost(2)
Bikes - some social run, some signpost(3)
Bikes – some social run, some signpost(3)
Bikes - some social run, some signpost(4)
Bikes – some social run, some signpost(4)
Bikes - some social run, some signpost(5)
Bikes – some social run, some signpost(5)
Two signposters
Two signposters
Inside, the management...
Inside, the management…
...and the most important person!
…and the most important person!
Some serious signposters (and more relaxed social-ers) (1)
Some serious signposters (and more relaxed social-ers) (1)
Some serious signposters (and more relaxed social-ers) (2)
Some serious signposters (and more relaxed social-ers) (2)
Some serious signposters (and more relaxed social-ers) (3)
Some serious signposters (and more relaxed social-ers) (3)
Yes - very very wet!
Yes – very very wet!
Scott rider tries to make sure no-one else finds their way out of the building!
Scott rider tries to make sure no-one else finds their way out of the building!
Ooooh - same place as last year (but certainly not the same weather)!
Ooooh – same place as last year (but no cows, and certainly not the same weather)!

 

2024 (sunshine returns!)

The village hall under a blue sky.
Much better this year (but a very full car-park)!
A line-up of bikes from the 1930s to the 1990s
Bikes from all ages!
Two smiling motorcyclists chatting in front of a line of two- and three-wheelers.
These two look far too relaxed to be signposters…
The Handyvan is a three-wheeler from the 1930s, motorcycle front forks with a van body behind!
James Handyvan among this years contestants.
A lone rider preparing to leave.
Velo MOV getting away before anyone else.
Rural grassy traffic island with a finger-post, a telegraph post with a number on it and a chalkboard with directions to a tea shop.
Signpost, easy clue and directions to possible cake stop!
A small concrete waterboard marker sign nestling in the undergrowth.
Slightly more difficult clue!
Countryside panorama with green grass, blue skies and distant clouds
This is what we want!
BMW motorcycle parked against a flowery hedgerow, in the sunshine.
Basking BM.

 

2025 – come rain, come shine!

A view of a low single storey brown wooden building with the short grass of a playing field in the foreground and trees behind. There are some big planters with colourful red, yellow and pink flowers along the front of the building and a small group of figures stand talking . To the right is the cream end wall of another low single-storey building and motorcycles can be seen parked between the two. The sky is a washed-out blue with discernible clouds...
A new venue this year – Hatch Beauchamp village hall and so far only a little grey!
A line of parked motorcycles in front of a cream-coloured building with a brown tiled roof and a row of brown wooden double doors in the front wall. A small group of figures (a young man in a T-shirt accompanied by a dog and two small children) are looking at the machines.
Getting the interest of the next generation (we hope!)
Three motorcycles parked in front of a low cream-coloured building with brown tiles and dark brown wooden double doors.
Some bikes (these on the Social Run)…
Four motorcycles (black, red, dark green and blue) parked in front of a white van
some more bikes…
Two motorcycles (one blue, black and chrome, the other very dark red) parked in front of a cream wall with a row of dark brown wooden double doors.
…two more bikes (Signposters!)
Three motorcycles parked in front of the dark brown, wooden end wall of a low single-storey building
Signposter BM, two B31s on the Social Run
Interior - half a dozen men, some with riding gear and mugs, are sitting talking around a table. In the background an open serving hatch with a clock above it, the hands of the clock at 10:14..
No maps – these can’t be Signposters!
A motorcycle parked against the side of a country lane with high hedges on either side; the sky is very grey and the road surface is glistening with water.
Not the most enjoyable weather!
A signpost (with fingerboards) in the grassy verge at the side of a road, with trees, hedges and fields in the distance. The road surface has glistening streaks of water, the sky is grey, the horizon is misty...
A signpost and a damp view!
A view across a grass verge and a road glistening with water. Beyond the road is an imposing house with a thatched roof and a well-trimmed hedges.
Very picturesque (even if a bit damp!)
Across a high grass verge, a vertical flood-height marker board (marked up to 4 feet), a motorcycle parked immediately behind it on hard-standing that leads into the arches below a low stone bridge (obviously the alternative crossing when the water is up to the 4 feet mark!). The adjacent roadway and the hard standing are wet but with no sign of any running water.
Despite all the wet there’s no sign of water anywhere near that marker!
A motorcycle parked on gravel at the side of a road. Behind is a road junction with a large whitewashed and tiled-roof building (a pub) on the opposite side of the road. The road surface looks damp but has dry patches and no lying water. The sky is cloudy-white with some very faint, very pale blue patches. There is a map spread out on the saddle of the motorbike...
Nearly halfway round – drying out!