The Annual Lunacy Climbing Challenge Chatzone
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Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
I've done 2.6k a few times in the past back when I had cooperative legs. I don't think they'd stand for such abuse these days.
My peak was doing the Maratona route in 2022 at 4155m.
I suspect it is all downhill from there. 😉
2 back to back Qualifying rides done in Provence . 5000ft + plus 6000ft + . Today's ride around the Verdon Gorge was absolutely stunning not even spoilt by the hail at the top of the last climb . Should be 3 more counting rides in the coming days if the legs hold out
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Pictures needed!
Full write up and pictures in "your ride today " thread
bluenotebob
Guru
- Location
- central Brittany, France
@FrothNinja and @Dogtrousers ... can you have a look at this thread because I'm puzzled.
I haven't been getting any alerts of recent posts - I couldn't understand why because I'm sure I've posted here.
Logged out and logged back in - still didn't make a difference.
And then I noticed that there's a huge gap - of over a year - in the posts at the top of this page (page 14). There are no posts between 28 March 2025 and 18 May this year.
What's happened? Has the thread become corrupt?
Let me know if you agree that something looks wrong - and if so, I'll contact the mods.
I haven't been getting any alerts of recent posts - I couldn't understand why because I'm sure I've posted here.
Logged out and logged back in - still didn't make a difference.
And then I noticed that there's a huge gap - of over a year - in the posts at the top of this page (page 14). There are no posts between 28 March 2025 and 18 May this year.
What's happened? Has the thread become corrupt?
Let me know if you agree that something looks wrong - and if so, I'll contact the mods.
bluenotebob
Guru
- Location
- central Brittany, France
Answered my own question - we've actually got two Lunacy Climbing chatzone threads!
What a mess ..
What a mess ..
Can you get the mods to merge them
bluenotebob
Guru
- Location
- central Brittany, France
I've just PM'd Pat "5 Mph" and asked her to have a look and see what's feasible
We'll sort it out one way or another
- Location
- Glasgow
Hello, mod's note:
Threads now merged, all should be in the correct time order, because the posts should merge in order of the time they were posted originally.
FrothNinja
Guru
The older challenge had a bunch of rules about not repeating climbs etc, the newer one was simplified. Considering the rules are posted at the start of the year, merging shouldn't confuse issues.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Yes, the OP in this thread describes a different challenge that had a significant route-planning component to it. Qualifying rides had to be loops: Starting and ending in the same place and not reusing any stretch of road twice (in the same direction ... crossing allowed ... )
I enjoyed that, and still sometimes apply those rules, but hardly anyone else entered as it was too complicated.
Then we got the second, simplified, variant of the challenge. Hence two chatzone threads. Which have now been merged to one.
Much less confusing, thank you @Pat "5mph"
