EasyPeez
Veteran
- Location
- Cottingham, East Yorkshire
I daresay. We had a crosswind and massive saddle bags swinging off the back unfortunately.
Photos atop your favourite climbs
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Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
This is a view of Treorchy and the Rhondda Fawr from Bwlch-y-Clawdd, September 26th 1987. My records, written in fountain pen, show that this was taken during century ride number 73, returning to Bristol after a night at Llanddeusant Youth Hostel. It looks as though I picked a fine weekend! Happy days indeed.
kiriyama
Senior Member
Happened again!
At least I was on my cx bike. met a couple of other nutters on road bikes. I passed a group of mountain bikers who said I wouldn't make it.... yes I had to get off and carry the bike over a couple of snow drifts but me and the roadies made it to the top, and so far I'm the fastest person on strava up Holme moss today! (Can't normal claim that!)
At least I was on my cx bike. met a couple of other nutters on road bikes. I passed a group of mountain bikers who said I wouldn't make it.... yes I had to get off and carry the bike over a couple of snow drifts but me and the roadies made it to the top, and so far I'm the fastest person on strava up Holme moss today! (Can't normal claim that!)
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Epic effort- well done!
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
A man after my own heart, well done
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Great effort. Home Moss is hard enough at the best of times so going up on the snowiest day of the winter deserves massive kudos. How was the descent?
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
White horse hill this morning .... In the sleet .....
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Nice photo, quite a tough little bugger that hill too.
kiriyama
Senior Member
not too bad, it wasn't icy it was a very wet snow fall and the road was pretty clear apart from at the top.. just had to watch out for abandoned vehicles!
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nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
There are some unbelievable idiots in vehicles when it gets snowing around here. I took son #2 to Glossop railway station as his school bus wasn't running. I saw a coach heading up Chunal towards Hayfield (this is more than 1000ft up) on the snowiest morning of the whole winter. Absolutely zero chance
So myself, @Trickedem and @rb58 climbed the Pico de Valeta in the Spanish Sierra Nevada mountains.
11000 feet high and 30 miles of continual climbing, there really was no flat to even freewheel for a bit.
Myself and Ross stopped a mile from (300 feet below) the summit. The road at this point was pretty crappy. I was also suffering a little from the altitude. So Tim, who had tried to climb the mountain a couple of years ago but had to abandon due to bad weather, continued to the summit, carrying his bike. He was on a mission and nothing was going to stop him reaching the summit this time.
Myself and Ross rested a while before returning back down a couple of thousand feet to the cafe to recover and wait for Tim to descend.
There's a Cycle Chat jersey under my windcheater, so maybe the highest summit a CC jersey has been on a bike.
Ross on the summit approach.
The climb took 4 hours 37 minutes to get up.
.. and 1 hour 21 to get back down again 
It was tough but jolly good fun.
11000 feet high and 30 miles of continual climbing, there really was no flat to even freewheel for a bit.
Myself and Ross stopped a mile from (300 feet below) the summit. The road at this point was pretty crappy. I was also suffering a little from the altitude. So Tim, who had tried to climb the mountain a couple of years ago but had to abandon due to bad weather, continued to the summit, carrying his bike. He was on a mission and nothing was going to stop him reaching the summit this time.
Myself and Ross rested a while before returning back down a couple of thousand feet to the cafe to recover and wait for Tim to descend.
There's a Cycle Chat jersey under my windcheater, so maybe the highest summit a CC jersey has been on a bike.
Ross on the summit approach.
The climb took 4 hours 37 minutes to get up.
.. and 1 hour 21 to get back down again It was tough but jolly good fun.
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Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Somewhere up near the Col de la Croix de Fer, in the French Alps, on 15th Sep. I wish I was still there. 
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winjim
Smash the cistern
It does make for a satisfyingly pointy elevation profile.So myself, @Trickedem and @rb58 climbed the Pico de Valeta in the Spanish Sierra Nevada mountains.
11000 feet high and 30 miles of continual climbing, there really was no flat to even freewheel for a bit.
Myself and Ross stopped a mile from (300 feet below) the summit. The road at this point was pretty crappy. I was also suffering a little from the altitude. So Tim, who had tried to climb the mountain a couple of years ago but had to abandon due to bad weather, continued to the summit, carrying his bike. He was on a mission and nothing was going to stop him reaching the summit this time.
Myself and Ross rested a while before returning back down a couple of thousand feet to the cafe to recover and wait for Tim to descend.
There's a Cycle Chat jersey under my windcheater, so maybe the highest summit a CC jersey has been on a bike.
Ross on the summit approach.
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The climb took 4 hours 37 minutes to get up.
It was tough but jolly good fun.
