WordsHairpin
โค้งหักศอก · khong hak sok
A bend tight enough that you turn about 180 degrees to carry on. Called a switchback in American English.
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A bend tight enough that you turn about 180 degrees to carry on. Called a switchback in American English.
The long version
Hairpins exist to reduce the steepness of a climb: zigzagging up a slope is longer and slower but easier and safer than going straight at it, and cheaper to build than tunnelling. That is why there are so many here — the road is trading distance for gradient.
On this site a curve is counted as a hairpin when the measured arc is 120 degrees or more. Route 1095 carries 110 of them, Route 1263 carries 31 in a third of the distance.
Runs with
- story1,864 curves — How they get counted.
- hazardGravel on the apex — What collects on the inside of one.
Named here by
- hazardBuses and pickups on your line — The radius that forces it.
- hazardGravel on the apex — The shape that collects it.
- bikeThe 700cc-and-up adventure bike — The manoeuvre the weight is felt in.
- story1,864 curves — The hundred and ten that go past 120 degrees.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Hairpin turn — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text.story | cited | Hairpin turn — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Hairpin turn — Wikipedia (en)
- Curve and distance measurements off the OSM polyline — This project
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there