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If I eat excessive quantities of beans I'm likely to get the Environmental health people knocking on my door.
What is a Hill
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If I eat excessive quantities of beans I'm likely to get the Environmental health people knocking on my door.
Juan Kog
permanently grumpy
Dave why not combine beans and Brussel sprouts , there wouldn’t be a door left to knock on.If I eat excessive quantities of beans I'm likely to get the Environmental health people knocking on my door.
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- Inside my skull
I only told you to blow the bloody door off.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Here in Devon, everything is hill.
My longer rides are also the flattest I can arrange, into Plymouth and back along NCN27. Still gives more than 2200ft of gain!
I do not pretend to be a climber, although my latest bike has some seriously low gears, so we'll see if that helps...
My longer rides are also the flattest I can arrange, into Plymouth and back along NCN27. Still gives more than 2200ft of gain!
I do not pretend to be a climber, although my latest bike has some seriously low gears, so we'll see if that helps...
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
A zen master would say it is not a climb unless you are struggling on it.
You beat me to it! iirc, in my home town, there were some traffic lights at the foot of a bridge on the driving test route. If the lights were red, it counted as your hill start when they changed and you pulled off; if they were on green and you didn't stop, then you didn't have to do the hill start.
Otherwise, this is a fenland hill (note the heights above sea level that appear here and there):
Edit: - and this is what it looks like from a nearby road, across the field:
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a.twiddler
Veteran
From that map, there must be the question, "What is a contour line? I haven't seen one of those before."
I have an old OS 1:50,000 sheet number 131- from which the above extract comes from with no contour lines at all on the entire sheet (so about 24mile x 24mile - of which about a third of is sea) but I have a later edition that does have a few - but I think I'm right in saying they are all 0m. The marked heights of 2, 3 and 4 metres tend to be on the raised banks.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
The dictionary says:
which pretty much rules out most things in the Fens, Cateyes included (my classic definition of a hill in the Fens)
- Location
- Inside my skull
The dictionary says:
which pretty much rules out most things in the Fens, Cateyes included (my classic definition of a hill in the Fens)
There is a mountain rescue team in Pidley
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Yip, that one always cracks me up 👍
- Location
- Inside my skull
The dictionary says:
which pretty much rules out most things in the Fens, Cateyes included (my classic definition of a hill in the Fens)
Going back to difference between a mountain and a hill. My definition is a mountain you can fall off in the summer, where as to fall off a hill it needs to be in winter conditions.
This is my home ground nowadays - I consider it to be hilly. Google Earth reports my gpx files as approximately 75 feet per mile ascent/descent per mile.
Definitions/demarcation of hill/mountain aside, I reckon it is more useful to say whether a ride is hilly or not by the ascent (& descent) by distance - and that doesn't give a comprehensive picture - up/down changing every 200 yards is different to a steady up and then down over a mile.
Definitions/demarcation of hill/mountain aside, I reckon it is more useful to say whether a ride is hilly or not by the ascent (& descent) by distance - and that doesn't give a comprehensive picture - up/down changing every 200 yards is different to a steady up and then down over a mile.
