An enthusiasm for roads and highways as engineering and planning achievements in their own right, pursued by driving the full length of a given route, known among enthusiasts as "clinching" it, researching a road system's history and design, or building detailed maps and signage records without necessarily caring about the vehicles that use the roads at all. Roadgeeks organize largely through online forums and clubs such as the Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts, sharing photographs, debating interchange design and organizing group tours of roads of particular historical or technical interest.
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OriginRoadgeeking is an enthusiasm for roads and road trips as engineering and planning achievements; a prominent online community, the Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts (SABRE), started in 1999 as 'Study and Appreciation of the British Roads Experience.' 1 Partially Attested
Established When (Circa)Marks the 1999 founding of the prominent SABRE online community rather than a dated origin for road enthusiasm generally, which the source does not give. Connections
Associated With
License plate collectors and roadgeeks overlap heavily, both documenting details of highway and vehicle registration systems as a shared interest.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Roadgeek - Wikipedia
Interest section
Enthusiasts may focus on a single activity related to roads, such as driving the full length of a highway (known as 'clinching') or researching the history, planning and quirks of a particular road or national highway system.
SABRE section
Started in 1999, the Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts (SABRE), originally known as 'Study and Appreciation of the British Roads Experience,' is one of the larger and most prominent communities of road enthusiasts online.
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A roadgeek (from road + geek) is a person involved in 'roadgeeking' or 'road enthusiasm', an enthusiasm for roads, fond of road trips as a hobby.
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