Originally Posted by
FBinNY
In all seriousness, signs like this are fairly common in my area, many saying "Steep Hill - walk bikes". They're not intended for serious cyclists, but for newbies, children and relatively inexperienced riders who often more speed than they can handle.
yep. my life-long summer vacation spot, mackinac island, has many such signs because the car-free tourist-mecca island is inundated with inexperienced bike riders every summer, many of whom are midwestern flat-landers who don't even know what a steep hill is, much less how to safely ride a bicycle down one.
turkey hill, pictured below, is extremely steep and has a very tight radius curve that wraps around the bluff to the left as it drops, but it's also only about 100' of vertical drop, so it's not that long. any experienced cyclist on a bike with functioning brakes could get down it no problem. i have done so dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of times, but for the uninitiated. . . . .
