just done the cat & fiddle climb

in a shade under 35 minutes (from arighi bianchi in macc) and with gears to spare! how quick has anyone else done it on a non tt ride?

 

Erm, no idea - Been up it today (this morning), then long hill - the 45 mile route from home in 2:37, a whopping 25 minutes off the time I did in March ! Was good today, tail wind on the upper slopes - flew up it. Hasn't the road deteriorated as you bear left from the straight drag from Macc - it's about half a mile of broken tarmac - awful stuff, really knocks the rythm.

Long Hill was hard work, howling headwind all the way home to Stockport.

Passed a chap on a nice pinarello near to the top.

It's 7 miles from Arighi's to the Pub at the top.

 

it's even worse when you're haring down it at 30mph (although the wind today meant a bit of a slower than usual descent). were you one of the group i passed going up the drag out of macc as i came the other way about 1045 today? (red bike, apple logo on black jersey)

 

Nope, I was on a blue/chrome Frank Herety and on my own , with matching blue top/helmet - although at 10.45, I think I was probably heading down to Buxton by then - hit the cat at about 10.15

 

ah, i was just behind, getting to the pub at 10:25. was going to get a coffee but wasn't about to wait for it to open.

 

@smeggers: i rode a 42-42-30 triple with 25-12 on the back. used all three chainrings on the assent.

@simongalgut: not unless you lend me one of your tt bikes are you doing the mile high on saturday?

@nom de plum: 'fraid not. all black, apple jersey.

 

I do the climb on a 39 x 18,19,21 (21 is my lowest) although that was used on a couple of steep bits. Mainly the 39 x 19