Nice mate
Didn't realise you lived near Bath. Some nice lumps out that way, at least on the routes I drive from Mere into Bath. 
I’ve done that one a couple of times, but the route I’ve done hits it a little later in the ride and after I’ve come up hill which you went down after you turned left at the cross roads.Nice mate
The sunshine (and a carer!) coaxed me to venture out again today too. 81kms with almost 1000 metres of climbing. Found some nice local hills to tryout - one has switchbacks and per Strava shows as a top100 climb so quite chuffed I went that way today.
Certainly helps to clear the mind getting out in the real world
It was windy up at the top today, blowing across from Shaftesbury. I was tempted to turn around on that descend and climb back up as it looked like a really nice hill, but I didn't know how long it was going to take me to get back home so gave it a miss. in hindsight I would have had time and will definitely head that way again.
It certainly wasn't smooth when I last did it, it was a very rough surface.It was windy up at the top today, blowing across from Shaftesbury. I was tempted to turn around on that descend and climb back up as it looked like a really nice hill, but I didn't know how long it was going to take me to get back home so gave it a miss. in hindsight I would have had time and will definitely head that way again.
I don't know when you last did the switchback climb but they relaid the surface not so long ago and it a beautiful surface now. I'd even consider coming down it now whereas with the old broken surface I didn't even like driving down it
We are lucky in this neck of the woods, some nice rolling roads so long as I don't get lost
Yes - nasty. I drove up it 2 weeks ago and saw it had been fixed hence why I tried it today. You are far braver than me to ride it with the old surface
On your Strava profile there were some very steep hills. @kipster I thought you run a low rear cassette. I wouldn't want try those hills with anything less than a 34/32Yes - nasty. I drove up it 2 weeks ago and saw it had been fixed hence why I tried it today. You are far braver than me to ride it with the old surface
My Roubaix has 50/34 & 11/34 so plenty gears for me now. On most hills I never go past 28 on the back up to 12% and only when it's close to 20% do I need the 34. The hours on BRVR have taught me to keep pushing on the hills
It's really interesting but a couple of years ago I was struggling on the hills outside but now I never feel like I need to bail 
Can't see Zwift or BRVR helping me there 
Hi Randy, the good bike has 36/29 the winter bike 34/27. The main reason is that until very recently campagnolo didn't do any bigger than 29.
Yeah why aren’t all the pros riding steel bikes with rim brakes and wearing wool jerseys hey?!
Unless your Jumbo Visma, when you tell Bianchi that you're riding rims as the disc version is too heavy but also use nano tech black paint for the mountain stages as it saves 80g, but we'll have Celeste gloss bikes for the flat stages.They ride carbon because it’s lighter than steel. They wear Lycra because it’s much more practical than wool. And they use discs because that’s what their sponsors tell them to do. Even if it means they can’t get them down to the allowed weight limit
This is very frustrating when you’re in the market for a new bike with rim brakes (disc just look too ugly) - there is hardly any choice now!!
