How Steep Is "Steep"?

[Johnsop99]

The weaklings of Yorkshire get off and push at the first sight of a slight incline.

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Only snag is this is Gold Hill in Dorset not Yorkshire.

 

[Drago]

It was in Yorkshire 40 years ago when the ad was made

 

[Globalti]

But that hill is in Dorset!

 

[Brandane]

At least the hospital is waiting at the top to receive all the cyclists who suffer heart attacks from the strain of their arduous ascent!

Sorry but all the beds at that hospital are taken - by the loyalty card holders of the "restaurant" at the foot of the hill!

 

[snorri]

The weaklings of Yorkshire get off and push at the first sight of a slight incline.

You've never carried a Yorkshire loaf home from the baker?

 

[midlife]

Sorry if I missed it but where is the OP's hill ?

 

[Drago]

But that hill is in Dorset!

It is today, due to plate tectonics.

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry if I missed it but where is the OP's hill ?

Halifax.

Hint: NOT in Nova Scotia!

As for me not posting photos of actual steep cobbled climbs ... it was gone 03:00 and I needed my beauty sleep.***






*** Unfortunately, it didn't work!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Most of my riding is in Warwickshire's rolling countryside, lots of lumps, but only a few that would be called steep by most people. This one I would call steep, Purley Chase Lane

https://goo.gl/maps/QEAwg4RpxKR2

The trouble is that everybody's idea of steep is different.

 

[Globalti]

There's a horribly steep road called Jinny Lane that climbs up from the Clarion House at Nelson. Happily there's a defibrillator at the top!

 

[classic33]

Most of my riding is in Warwickshire's rolling countryside, lots of lumps, but only a few that would be called steep by most people. This one I would call steep, Purley Chase Lane

https://goo.gl/maps/QEAwg4RpxKR2


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The trouble is that everybody's idea of steep is different.

Given that there's a few roads like that round here, I don't consider it to be any worse than others.

There's steeper nearby.

 

[midlife]

I wonder how steep Cardiac Hill is in Bristol ?

 

[briantrumpet]

I've never really been able to capture the steepness of hills in photos. Mind you, it always helps if you've got some buildings... Vale Street, in the aptly named Totterdown, in Bristol. This is steep.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Given that there's a few roads like that round here, I don't consider it to be any worse than others.

There's steeper nearby.

Yes, but its all relevant isn't it. Round here thats a steep one, but in a seriously hilly area that may not be called steep, as I said in my original post everybodies idea of steep is different.

 

[briantrumpet]

Yes, but its all relevant isn't it. Round here thats a steep one, but in a seriously hilly area that may not be called steep, as I said in my original post everybodies idea of steep is different.

Indeed. 'Steep' in an Alpine context is 'over 10%', where you might well be doing climbs of an hour or more: 15% in the middle of that feels like a wall. But in Devon 20-25%ers aren't uncommon, though they are relatively short. Even my idea of 'steep' varies, depending on where I am, and how my legs and brain are on a particular day.