Your greatest hill climbing feat......
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snakehips
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Twixt London and Leafy Surrey
My best hill climbing moments are still to come , I hope. I have just bought a polka dot Dauphine Libere jersey so I will look like a clown if my performance does not match up
Snake
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Yes, and from time to time, militant local feminists desecrate her gravestone - interesting article here.cheadle hulme said:
Cycling Naturalist
Guru
- Location
- Llangollen
Flying_Monkey said:Maybe I didn't phrase that very well - it was that I coped well that made me happy, not other people's struggles.
So, it wasn't you who screamed, "Die, you fat failure."
Harrier
Senior Member
- Location
- Nestling in the Pennine foothills
The Hill Climb Event up Cragg Vale (Mytholmroyd) was tough last week with a 25mph head wind!!!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
And yet the winning time was just over 20 minutes wasn't it? 5 miles or so up a (nearly) 1,000 ft climb into a stinking headwind and manage to average about 15 or 16 mph - flipping heck!Harrier said:
I went up there yesterday. The wind had dropped a little, but it was still pretty tough. My time? It didn't begin with a 1 or a 2, let's put it that way
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dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
The descent from cragg vale into littleborough is one of my favourites!
there's also a very stiff climb going up holme lane from slaithwaite with a stretch of 1:4 halfway up- not pleasant. In fact living in the pennine area is great if you like breathing out of your ears. If you know where to go there's lots of them little roads with cobbles up the middle so horses could gain purchase going up them. I like it lots round here for that kind of thing.
there's also a very stiff climb going up holme lane from slaithwaite with a stretch of 1:4 halfway up- not pleasant. In fact living in the pennine area is great if you like breathing out of your ears. If you know where to go there's lots of them little roads with cobbles up the middle so horses could gain purchase going up them. I like it lots round here for that kind of thing.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
the wild wales challenge i'd say. some of those climbs were torture, and the whole event was 82 miles.
a_n_t
Senior Member
- Location
- Manchester
Harrier said:
i know, our manchester wheelers club run kinda gate crashed it!!
a_n_t
Senior Member
- Location
- Manchester
cheadle hulme; said:
you must have done gorsey brow then? tough little 1:4!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&h...155&spn=0.010071,0.038366&t=h&z=15&iwloc=addr
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Cragg Vale is only halfway up the hill! Yeah, the descent from Blackstone Edge to Littleborough is good. I had a strong cross/headwind when I went down it yesterday so I didn't get much above 30 mphdan_bo said:
. I prefer descending off Oxenhope Moor to Hebden Bridge though.
Ooh, I've not done that one yet. I usually climb Crimble Bank, Clough Road when passing through Slaithwaite.dan_bo said:
The first time I went there, I asked a local where I was. I expected him to say 'Slathe - Wait' but he told me it was 'Slough (rhymes with plough) - It'. I said "Oh, so how do I get to Slaithwaite ('Slathe - Wait') then?" He looked at me as if I was a complete idiot
!Seconded.dan_bo said:
I never understand why people don't like riding in the hills. Going up them is challenging, the views from the tops are great, and the descents are exciting - what more could you ask for
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dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
slowwit mate slowwit.
at the bottom of holme lane there's a pub called-i think- the silent woman- with a picture of a beheaded lady over the door.niiiiice.
at the bottom of holme lane there's a pub called-i think- the silent woman- with a picture of a beheaded lady over the door.niiiiice.
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
- Location
- Where the chevrons are
It's an area I really fancy cycling round, though I've walked in the area quite a lot (the view from Stoodley Pike is fantastic) have never cycled.
If you ever talk to my brother about cycling for more than 5 minutes he mentions he won a hill climb in the 80's somewhere in that neck of the woods - but I can't remember where.
I don't think we share the same climbing gene.
If you ever talk to my brother about cycling for more than 5 minutes he mentions he won a hill climb in the 80's somewhere in that neck of the woods - but I can't remember where.
I don't think we share the same climbing gene.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Some variations, but okay - it definitely isn't pronounced the way it looks. Yorkshire TV always pronounce it as rhyming with plough.dan_bo said:
It also came as a surprise that Barnoldswick is pronounced as Barlick by the locals. I suppose if it is your town or village you can pronounce its name which ever way you want to.
