I have a hankering for climbing mountains on a road bike - location suggestions please?

[roubaixtuesday]

Others have recommended it, but Great Dun Fell is the greatest climb in the UK and actually a mountaintop finish.

From earlier this year...

100 climbs gives a good range of the UK's best climbs.

https://cyclinguphill.com/100-climbs/

A day out in the Yorkshire Dales, North Pennines, Peak District or pretty much anywhere in Wales will be harder than Tuscany.

 

[fossyant]

Make sure you've got a good climbing set of gears. Peaks and North Wales rider here, and it can get very unpleasant if you've not got the gearing. I take the CX bike with 34 x 34 on the really hilly stuff as 39 x 26 is somewhat unpleasant over 15% - it's fine on the drags like Cat and Fiddle, Long Hill, Axe Edge, Snake etc

 

[Webbo2]

No one has suggested the North York Moors not many really long climbs but probably most of the steepest climbs in the UK hang out round there. Is it as Simon Warren suggests did the council just get a job lot of 33% climb signs and randomly put them around or are they that steep.😉

 

[Jameshow]

No one has suggested the North York Moors not many really long climbs but probably most of the steepest climbs in the UK hang out round there. Is it as Simon Warren suggests did the council just get a job lot of 33% climb signs and randomly put them around or are they that steep.😉

Yeap felt like that esp on day two of a three counties coast to coast!
Lakes, Dales and Moors!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

drags like Cat and Fiddle, Long Hill, Axe Edge, Snake etc

All done on single speed as a kid, nice friendly gentle climbs.

 

[Webbo2]

All done on single speed as a kid, nice friendly gentle climbs.

🏅🎖

 

[fossyant]

All done on single speed as a kid, nice friendly gentle climbs.

I have done climbs like that on my fixed in my early 40's, then got broken.