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Looks very much like 99% of the riding that I do.
Photos atop your favourite climbs
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Looks very much like 99% of the riding that I do.
RegG
Über Member
- Location
- Nottingham
I would like to say this is me climbing the Dolomites in Italy.......
......but sadly I can't! Maybe one day. We drove up and it was a long drag!
......but sadly I can't! Maybe one day. We drove up and it was a long drag!
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Snake Pass and Holme Moss already posted here so these are a couple from my Sicily cycling hol last October
Mount Etna. From Catania (sea level) it's 27km average 6% to the complex in the photo. It was about 30 degrees on the lower slopes and I suffered like a dog. No amount of Peak District cycling prepares you for the draining heat. But the feeling of accomplishment was great. And the descent......
Here is a really good one to a hilltop village called Centuripe. Another really hot day. First 2km of the 8km climb averaged 14% but it was worth it to have a couple of cold beers in the bar in the village square. Apologies for gratuitous gut shot
Mount Etna. From Catania (sea level) it's 27km average 6% to the complex in the photo. It was about 30 degrees on the lower slopes and I suffered like a dog. No amount of Peak District cycling prepares you for the draining heat. But the feeling of accomplishment was great. And the descent......
Here is a really good one to a hilltop village called Centuripe. Another really hot day. First 2km of the 8km climb averaged 14% but it was worth it to have a couple of cold beers in the bar in the village square. Apologies for gratuitous gut shot
Proto
Legendary Member
- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
Summer 2015. Blisteringly hot and a bastard long climb.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
The top was fully unzipped up both climbs. Now that was a sight
TissoT
Guru
- Location
- The Home of British cycling
May be a summer base layer/vest ...
stumpy66
Veteran
- Location
- Lanarkshire
stumpy66
Veteran
- Location
- Lanarkshire
Jimidh
Veteran
- Location
- Midlothian
I love climbing The Talla Wall but actually think the climb from the south is as tough as its still pretty steep at points but is a far longer climb especially into the wind.
Great route round St Mary's Loch and back over to Peebles.
Jimidh
Veteran
- Location
- Midlothian
Half way up Tala at last year's Tour O' The Borders - it's way steeper than it looks in the photo.
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Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
Here's mine:
Yes, it's the renowned and daunting Col du Beckenham, 440 yards of hell stretching from the main gate of Beckenham Place Park to Braeside, climbing a majestic 58 feet at an average of 3.5%, with a punishing midsection of 7.8%.
Many try.
Most succeed.
But there can be only one true champion, and this evening, though struggling up on the commuter bike, laden with a rucksack full of work crap, into the teeth of a stiff breeze, fighting the virus which has seen me bedridden for the best part of three days, and still carrying the post-December pork, I set the fastest time of the year so far, despite a standing start.
I thus declare myself to be the greatest 180lb 49-and-a- quarter year old climber whose initials are DC and whose postcode has "BR" in it in the country, if not the entire world. Or maybe in our street.
But... I hear the sound of dissent. "Put up your Strava, or fark orf, nobber".
Happy to oblige.
Yes, it's the renowned and daunting Col du Beckenham, 440 yards of hell stretching from the main gate of Beckenham Place Park to Braeside, climbing a majestic 58 feet at an average of 3.5%, with a punishing midsection of 7.8%.
Many try.
Most succeed.
But there can be only one true champion, and this evening, though struggling up on the commuter bike, laden with a rucksack full of work crap, into the teeth of a stiff breeze, fighting the virus which has seen me bedridden for the best part of three days, and still carrying the post-December pork, I set the fastest time of the year so far, despite a standing start.
I thus declare myself to be the greatest 180lb 49-and-a- quarter year old climber whose initials are DC and whose postcode has "BR" in it in the country, if not the entire world. Or maybe in our street.
But... I hear the sound of dissent. "Put up your Strava, or fark orf, nobber".
Happy to oblige.
stumpy66
Veteran
- Location
- Lanarkshire
I've never done it that way, usually done it as part of the Tour of Tweeddale or if I'm heading round St Mary's loch to Moffat and over the beef tub back towards Biggar
Knockalla Coast Road by braveheart1979, on Flickr A minibus load of Dutch tourists who were at the very top and watched my progress all the way up gave me a round of applause
Viscount Aerospace Murlough Bay County Antrim by braveheart1979, on Flickr Looking across at Scotland but a bit misty on this occasion.
View from "The Steeple" by braveheart1979, on Flickr overlooking the Bluestack mountains. Not seriously steep to get here but it's unsurfaced road up to here and it's a loose surface
The Gleniff Horseshoe Valley Co Sligo by braveheart1979, on Flickr Dartry Mountains "Yeats' Country" Co. Sligo
