Is it "lumpy" where you live?

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm surrounded by rolling countryside, Coventry and surrounding area isn't mountainous, but it's not flat either, I live on top of a hill, though if I get into the Cotswold's, the Burton Dasset Country Park area or into the Lickey Hills I start to get some decent climbs

 

[Learnincurve]

Yes. Although not as lumpy as where my parents live and where I learned to ride a bike which is the hope valley.

If anyone rides around there, there is a old green ford focus and a navy blue ford ka, usually with too many border collies in the back. It is as you suspected from the dirty looks and lip reading the swearing, they hate you. But, they hate you enough to be always watching for you, and would gladly stop if you were in an accident and help out because it would give them an opportunity for them to comment on the lycra to your face and some sort of "I passive aggressively grumbled at them at them time and time again as I drove past" victory. My dad does not understand pack riding and why you all can't ride single file down single lanes but I get it, it's old people in Hondas going "ooh look at that Gerald isn't it pretty" that may not see you unless you are in one.

 

[MontyVeda]

Round here it depends on which direction one goes... heading south and west towards Blackpool is as flat as a pancake. Heading east into the Trough of Bowland, or north-east up the Lune Valley, or north towards Silverdale and Arnside or Kendal can be as hilly as you like.

 

[ColinJ]

Round here it depends on which direction one goes... heading south and west towards Blackpool is as flat as a pancake. Heading east into the Trough of Bowland, or north-east up the Lune Valley, or north towards Silverdale and Arnside or Kendal can be as hilly as you like.

I was already familiar with the areas below Lancaster, but finally got a taste of the cycling to the N/NE on Ajay's Hawkshead forum ride in 2012 - very nice, and well worth going back to in the future!

 

[50000tears]

Cannot get out of the town without climbing out. Plenty of 100ft per mile or more routes, and the flattest over any distance is around 75ft per mile.

 

[MontyVeda]

I was already familiar with the areas below Lancaster, but finally got a taste of the cycling to the N/NE on Ajay's Hawkshead forum ride in 2012 - very nice, and well worth going back to in the future!

That route does take in some of the best the area has to offer... not that I'd ever be able to do it all in one go.

 

[cyberknight]

I can always head up towards the hills in derbyshire if i hanker for a good blast , commute home has nearly 450 feet in the last 4 miles of climbing .

 

[Cubist]

I can always head up towards the hills in derbyshire if i hanker for a good blast , commute home has nearly 450 feet in the last 4 miles of climbing .

I have a route home that gains 800 feet in the last two miles. Not my favourite ride home. The gentlest I can achieve is 1000 feet in six miles.

 

[surfdude]

yep. its like a roller coaster around here. the hills are not massive but around every corner is another bloody hill .

 

[User269]

Yeh, here in Dorset it's a bit.................sorry, what was the question again?

 

[Peteaud]

Working compass wise :-


North - No (Somerset Levels)

East - Yes - Dorset Ridge

South - Not really - downhill until glug glug glug (the sea)

West - Yes very hilly (Blackdown Hills)

 

[Fifelad]

Yes Fife has plenty of hills Ochills, Lomond hills, my home town Dunfermline isone big hill !

 

[Dragonwight]

Just shy of 4000 ft of climb in 30 miles which is average around here although being a small island we have a permanent 20 knot sea breeze which feels like a permanent hill sometimes.

 

[HLaB]

Its pretty flat round Peterborough. To the west there are some little bumps in Northhamptonshire, to the East you have the flat as the proverbial pancake, Fens. Slightly further to the north and west (about 20miles), you start getting into Oakham and its a bit hillier there, pretty steep but nothing too prolonged.

 

[Idoru]

North Wales (Vale of Clwyd area) so if I ride more than a couple of miles inland it starts to get what I'd previously considered lumpy, though looking at other areas mentioned... I might have it a bit easy. 14%+ (according to the road signs) is easy enough (Rhuallt, St. Asaph) to find and some long slogs are available.

Been thinking of adding another granny gear to the new bike to help out a little... could lose some flab I guess... nah, granny gear it is.