Challenge 2025 Challenge 2025 - Map and Pictures ONLY!!

[Hoggs]

So we had a BRAND NEW CHAMPION in @teo63 smashing the competition and improving from his solid silver last year

 

Remind me what I need to do…..

 

1. Go to this thread and grab yourself a unique number:

https://themotorbikeforum.co.uk/topic/52518-challenge-2025-registration/#comment-641963

 

2. Check the map here to find out where you need to go (hopefully one of these at least works for you)

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=17-9_mbQHncoaHaueTqtPtFEpiNKf7A4&usp=sharing

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?hl=en&mid=17-9_mbQHncoaHaueTqtPtFEpiNKf7A4&ll=53.62978384839931%2C-3.0517944999999926&z=5

 

3. Take a picture of you or your bike outside the location with your number in sight (if you forget your number making one out of twigs or leaves is perfectly acceptable and encouraged)

 

4. Post that picture in this thread (this one right here!)

 

5. Update your point total (found in your profile). Occassionally I may post an update on the scores, but let's face it I am pretty rubbish at this.

 

6. Have fun!

 

General tags. As before there are FIFTEEN tags per mainland UK region.

Once again I have for some insane reason listened to the feedback ( @Nick the wanderer) and added a BRAND NEW REGION I have named this “South Midlands” and it follows the same incredibly random Hoggs logic of every other region. Seriously, do not trust me to ever give you directions. So EVEN MORE TAGS OH MY GOODNESS HOGGS YOU ARE EVEN BETTER THAN SANTA

 

PLUS bonus rounds in the Isle of Man, Isle of Wight and Northern Ireland. Due to rude people actually getting IoW and IoM I had to do these again. @Throttled can have a co-creator point for the IoM and I added an extra one just so he couldn't take full credit.

 

WEIRD AND WONDERFUL there are a couple of BLUE MAGIC 8 BALL TAGS already listed under this - These are just places that made me laugh when I found them. I will as usual extend this to a bonus round, so if you find weird stuff then post it up. You don't NEED to get my 8 ball tags but they are good examples of what I find weird and wonderful so use them as inspiration.

As usual 10 for the first 10 you find, 5 for every one after that I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REJECT PLACES IF THEY ARE NEITHER WEIRD NOR WONDERFUL!!!!

 

So, 10 points per tag as usual with the 50 point bonus for completed regions/bonus rounds (these are clearly separated into colour groups on the map). There will be a spreadsheet of doom again that I use to keep track (badly) of the scores. As always you can challenge my counting and I will probably make sarcastic comments before going and doing it properly

 

Pub Round – Ah the pub round. As last year I will extend this to cafes and eateries and as before I am encouraging you when required to abandon strict logical thought and embrace the delightful world of abstract thinking.

 

For example, gluttony could be the Fat Cat and for Wrath I would use St Judes Brewery Tavern because the song Hey Jude makes me so angry I want to punch McCartney in his stupid smug face.

 

Sins and Virtues

Pride

Greed

Wrath

Envy

Lust

Gluttony

Sloth

Faith

Hope

Charity

 

 

As always this thread is for PICTURES ONLY. If you want to tell me how awesome I am then you can do so here

 

https://themotorbikeforum.co.uk/topic/52552-challenge-2025-discussion-and-scores/#comment-642215

 

For the new arrivals the discussion thread can also be used if a tag is no longer actually there. It may surprise you, but I don’t actually physically go to the places. I transport myself there magically through Google maps. And sometimes it hasn’t been updated. In the event of a “dead tag” I will find a suitable replacement. If the establishment has just changed its name please advise of the new name, the file will be updated and points awarded.

 

Again I think we are garden centre heavy with a good smattering of farm shops thrown in for good measure. There are a few scenic spots that I think will have some kind of info board / sign but if not just take a lovely picture of the view because I trust you.

 

GO!! GO!! GO!!

Edited December 31, 2024 by Hoggs

[CB999]

Happy new year 

My starter for 10

 

South Midlands 01 Hilltop Farm

 

 

[JRH]

And the rain has stopped and so as the sneezing so:

South Midlands #01 - Hilltop Farm

South Midlands #02 - Compton Verney

Pubs and Cafe #01 - Gluttony  : Royal Horse part of Hungry Horse Chain 

 

Edited January 1 by JRH

[RigsVille]

Managed to beat last years score already!

 

 

[_amw_]

I'm going to apologise for the 'quality' of these photos in advance, they are awful.  I did go to the places, honest   Will charge the camera that works next time!

 

East of England - Ashton Mueum

South Midlands - Coton Orchard Garden Centre

 

 

 

Edited January 2 by _amw_

[Fiddlesticks]

Pride - Rainbow Tea Rooms (because, well, rainbows)

 

 

Greed - Greedy Pig Café

 

 

Wrath - I couldn't decide so you'll have to pick the one you like best...

Wrath 1 - The Grapes (of Wrath.. John Steinbeck novel)

 

Wrath 2 - The Grapes (ditto)

 

Wrath 3 - Mean Eyed Cat (this one tickled me... mean cats are kind of wrathful)

 

 

 

Envy - Envy Lounge Bar

 

 

Lust - Hooters (sadly just missed the girl in the red hot pants standing outside)

 

 

Gluttony - The Fat Italian

 

 

Sloth - The Lazy Landlord

 

 

Faith - The Church

 

 

Hope - Hope St. Hotel

 

 

Charity - The Volunteer Canteen

 

 

[Throttled]

Faith, Hope and Charity. The Quarriers charity, providing dozens of homes for orphans, all in one large village near Kilmacolm, founded in 1876 and Faith and Hope Avenues. Once a year, they ran a huge football tournament, inviting local youth groups to join in and I have fond memories of a day of football on made up pitches between the different houses.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 17 by Throttled

[RobbietheTenor]

A quick limber up around my back yard today:-

South East England - Squerryes Winery

South East England - Reuthe's Lost Gardens of Sevenoaks

Lust - not a brilliant image as it was difficult to park the bike and get a decent shot so I hope it's acceptable, but this is a pub called "The Cardinal's Error" (wonderful name). The lust element is nothing to do with any cardinal; the pub is rumoured to be haunted by Nellie, a poor farm girl who was made pregnant by a local man who promised her marriage and thus his fortune before jilting her. She dressed in her wedding finest and drowned herself in the pond behind the pub - the sin of lust can have consequences....

 

Edited January 17 by RobbietheTenor
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[Mickly]

1st tags this year

Envy -The Green Man

Pride -The Rainbow

[Fiddlesticks]

West Midlands #2 - Blists Hill Victorian Town

 

West Midlands #3 - Chameleon Cafe Bar @Manley Mere (closed till March 1st)

 

West Midlands #7 - Joe Porter Motorcycles

 

West Midlands #8 - Lakemore Farm Park

 

West Midlands #10 - Mill Meece Pumping Station

[teo63]

Weird and Wonderful   #1  Castlerigg Stone Circle - weird that someone thought it was a really good idea to carry 42 large rock weighing up to 16 tons to the top of a hill and arrange them in a circle,  I can't imagine what wonderful stuff they got up to  in the middle    #2  Bassenthwaite Lake  - Weird that this wonderful lake is the only lake in The Lake District

Edited January 28 by teo63

[teo63]

Sins and Virtues   #1  Hope - Café Hope Derwent Water

[teo63]

North West England   #1  Mae's Tea Rooms & Gallery - Uldale. Looks like Storm Eowyn had it away with the sign  (inset was all I could find with the name on it).

[Mickly]

Some more Sins & Virtues

Charity -The Benjamin Satchwell Leamington Spa - In 1806 Satchwell founded the Leamington Spa Charity, with the assistance of Reverend James Walhouse. The charity was to help the sick poor

Hope - The Hope & Anchor 

Faith - The Angel Hotel

Gluttony- The Fat Pug

Edited February 2 by Mickly

[CB999]

A few Weird & Wonderful Entries

 

#01 - Rollright Stones, weird how ancient folks decided mauling about hefty stones was a good idea

 

 

#02 - Four Shires Stone, Weird that it once stood at the junction of four counties but it don't now!

 

 

#03 - Broadway Tower, who doesn't think that the weird idea of building a good folly in the middle of nowhere is a fine example of English Eccentricity

 

[CB999]

South Midlands #02 - Compton Verney

 

[Fiddlesticks]

North Wales #1 - The 1950s Museum, Denbigh

 

North Wales #2 - Canolfan Tryweryn - The National White Water Centre

 

North Wales #4 - Inigo Jones Slate Works

 

North Wales #6 - Gwaith Powdwr North Wales Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve

 

North Wales #7 - Llangollen Pavilion Car Park

(oh yes, Google maps, just park here and it's just a short walk away - through the river!!)

 

North Wales #8 - National Trust - Penrhyn Castle & Garden

 

North Wales #9 - Penllyn Forest View Point (can only assume irony).

 

North Wales #13 - Tea Rooms at the Pet Cemetery

 

North Wales #15 - Zip World Betws-y-Coed

Edited February 9 by Fiddlesticks

[Fiddlesticks]

Weird & Wonderful #6 - The Smallest House In Great Britain

 

Weird & Wonderful #9 (mine) - Portmeirion - I mean, why not create a whole village of Italian-style miniature houses in North Wales?


Weird & Wonderful #10 (mine) - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - I think they invented this place name as a tourist attraction.  Well, we're here, so it must have worked!

Edited February 9 by Fiddlesticks

[teo63]

Sins and Virtues

 

#2  Pride - The Golden Lion Hotel & The Lion - We have the makings of a Pride of Lions

 

 

Edited February 20 by teo63

[teo63]

Weird and Wonderful

 

#3  Blakeley Raise Stone Circle, Cold Fell - More of those Weird and Wonderful stone circles, this one is really in the middle of nowhere !

 

Edited February 20 by teo63

[Simon Davey]

East of England

Ashdon Village Museum ---- Waheeeeeey, my first tag.

 

The Blue Egg

[Fiddlesticks]

https://youtube.com/shorts/ys6EUL3xgCI?feature=share

Weird & Wonderful #7 - The Singing Ringing Tree

 

Edited February 22 by Fiddlesticks

[Fiddlesticks]

North West England #12 - Turton Tower

 

North West England #13 - Windmill Animal Farm

[teo63]

Weird and Wonderful

 

#4  Bridge House, Ambleside  The Bridge House Ambleside - 8 Incredible Facts About This Quirky House In The Lake District

 

 

 

[teo63]

Sins and Virtues

 

#3  Lust - Daily Crave Desserts    #4  Wrath - The Mad Scientist     #5  Greed - Bank Tavern when there's no room left under the bed