Toys Hill

[Flying Dodo]

OK, it's an old thread but...



Not sure I agree on this one. It's a vicious bugger, but I cycle up most of it on my commute, I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as Toys?

You'll have to organise a ride incorporating both, so people can compare & contrast!

 

[Andrew_P]

You'll have to organise a ride incorporating both, so people can compare & contrast!

As long as there is an oxygen tent somewhere inbettwen the two count me in!

 

[Panter]

You'll have to organise a ride incorporating both, so people can compare & contrast!

Actually I need to apologise profusely, despite riding the bugger numerous times I'd forgotten the name of it...
The one I go up is Steade hill, not Hollingbourne. I've ridden Hollingbourne once, at the tail end of a MTB ride and it is nasty. Not sure it's as bad as Toys but it's certainly a killer climb!

 

[smutchin]

To see a real hill, go on bikehike.co.uk and head south from Rosedale Abbey up Chimney Bank.

I tried walking up there once and found it almost impossible. (Though admittedly I'd just enjoyed lunch in the pub at the bottom.)

d.

 

[smutchin]

I've ridden up most of the hills around the Sevenoaks and Maidstone area but at different times, at different points of different rides, so it's hard to compare their relative difficulty objectively. I would say Yorks is definitely tougher than both Ide and Toys though. I've just looked a few of them up on Strava...

Toys Hill:
http://app.strava.com/segments/942815

Ide Hill:
http://app.strava.com/segments/795893

Hollingbourne Hill:
http://app.strava.com/segments/936995

Stede Hill (nr Hollingbourne - I can't decide which of the two I think is harder):
http://app.strava.com/segments/371671

If you want a nice ride in the area that takes in a lot of Scenery, try the Invicta Grimpeur 100 audax, which includes all of the following - and more besides (but not Toys or Ide, unfortunately):

York's Hill is >20% in places - and has the added difficulty that the road is often very slippery, thus reducing grip:
http://app.strava.com/segments/648585

Carters Hill - short but vicious:
http://app.strava.com/segments/648583

Hubbards Hill - relentless:
http://app.strava.com/segments/648584

Exedown - long:
http://app.strava.com/segments/648713

Rowdow - Strava claims this hits 35% at its steepest point, which I don't find too hard to believe:
http://app.strava.com/segments/1075258

Shooters Hill is a doddle compared to all of these.

Enjoy!

d.

 

[Sittingduck]

Did Toys this morning (am off work this week and it was a nice day )
It just keeps kicking up and up. Thought it was maybe the summit when I saw the little crossroads thing with a few houses to the right but no. It carried on and just got steeper. Glad of the triple - that's for sure.

Came home via Titsey and of the two, I would say Toys is more knackering. Titsey is gravy, after that first steep section.

 

[fossyant]

Us Pennine boys

 

[benb]

Think I might check Toys Hill out, but I think I'll plan my ride to go down it!

 

[Bassjunkieuk]

Us Pennine boys

I'll be having a crack at getting over the Pennines at the end of the month, the only downside is one of the MAMIL's in my team has also got his name down for the ride so it might be rather slow going.....still he treated himself to a GPS computer (A Bryton Rider 50 THE fugliest device I've ever seen....) so he shouldn't get too lost if we drop him ;-)

 

[mulville]

and bump..................ok what do people think of Chalkpit Lane compared to Toy's Hill?

 

[Sittingduck]

Never done it but have heard of it. Where is it, in relation to Toy's?

 

[ianrauk]

Never done it but have heard of it. Where is it, in relation to Toy's?

near Oxted if I remember rightly

 

[mulville]

http://app.strava.com/segments/645908

and the dog leg is a killer !!!!!

 

[dodd82]

Anyone ever ridden this one?

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=honey+lane&ie=UTF-8

It's Woodridden Hill, in Waltham Abbey on the way to Epping.

I'm new to cycling, so this probably doesn't mean anything, but I've found it incredibly hard - am puffing rather hard and peddling rather slowly by the end of it!

 

[Bassjunkieuk]

http://app.strava.com/segments/645908

and the dog leg is a killer !!!!!

Curse you.... I haven't ridden it but it's certainly close enough for a punt if I get some quality time! Mind you looking at the strava times with a 10mph average being the top I may need to get my front derailleur working again