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| Dan_Grr |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:32
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I have plenty of hills where I live. Lots of short, a couple of medium and one or two long hills. One of these climbs has two 12% uphill zones, it's completely suicidical.
I also have some cobblestones and a lot of flat terrain. What about where you live? |
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| Crommy |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:35
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What's a hill? 
Mostly flat where I live, all the hills are off road, and I run up the steepest ones every weekend - no idea how steep they are, but it's hard work going up them 
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:35
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we have 0 cobble sections in Yorkshire apart from i went over a "ford" once that was cobbled, it was a 1meter stretch
and i really hope that hill you mentioned is long otherwise your a big girl
many people know so i won't say any more than, we have a few 25%'ers in Yorkshire. We don't have 10km mountains but we do have sharp hills (my favourite)
My favourite hill is Terrington (cool nameB)) it is 25% for 1km, my complete favourite, i always just follow my dad's wheel until about 100m to go and then bomb past him to the top
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:38
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Small hills, short sharp hills.
Not much but they take it out of your legs, you are going up for about 1km then down, flat for 1km then back up again..
Annoying but satisfying, i come out the road from my house and i'm going down a hill outside a tescos and i'm going really slow as i've not got the rhythm yet
On Holiday abroad we always go to De Gavers in Belgium (Camping), the campsite is literally on the Muur Kappelmuur descent 5km down from there is the Bosberg. Beautiful.
On Holiday in the UK it's the white cliffs in Dover
oh and Addy where in Yorkshire are ya? I come down to York all the time and need to know how to find these hills
Edited by doddy13 on 03-09-2007 21:39
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| Smoothie |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:39
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I went out on a 100km ride the other day and i went over, 5 over 25% climbs  They were cool!! |
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| Crommy |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:40
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I actually like going upwards when I run (I really should let you lot talk about cycling instead of drowning you in my running)
It's the descents after them that are a bugger - my legs just don't turn
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:42
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you run down it, i'll follow you on the wheels
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| Dan_Grr |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:43
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Whoa, my hills don't seem much compared to you guys, but I've got around 100 kgs to carry around... |
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:49
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doddy13 wrote:
Small hills, short sharp hills.
Not much but they take it out of your legs, you are going up for about 1km then down, flat for 1km then back up again..
Annoying but satisfying, i come out the road from my house and i'm going down a hill outside a tescos and i'm going really slow as i've not got the rhythm yet
On Holiday abroad we always go to De Gavers in Belgium (Camping), the campsite is literally on the Muur Kappelmuur descent 5km down from there is the Bosberg. Beautiful.
On Holiday in the UK it's the white cliffs in Dover
oh and Addy where in Yorkshire are ya? I come down to York all the time and need to know how to find these hills
well North Yorkshire for a start. I live in a village called Haxby although it is quite big it's verging on small town
Google Map
have a scroll down and you can see where i am in relation to York
Pickering
i bike up to here and enter the Yorkshire Moors, home of the hills
if you scroll left you will see Hawnby/Boltby this is the area where the "Hill of Death" is (doesn't have a name)
it is around 20/25% and around 3kms long, hence the name
Terrington
my favourite hill scroll down and you can see where it is in relation to me
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:55
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https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&s...a=N&tab=wl
ok click on satellite,
then on the left click the + button 4 times
now down about 4 times
then left about 2
you should see a road covered by trees, i think that is Terrington
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 03-09-2007 21:59
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i think i see it, next time i'm up there i might have to check it out (Grandparents up in York so thats why we go there)
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 03-09-2007 22:08
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Favorite climbs:
Pine Flat: Tough average grade with really steep bits now and then. 12 miles
Ida Clayton: consistently tough 9 miles shady
Franz Valley: Quiet roads with a few rollers
Chak Hill Road: Uphill 80 % of the waywith 2 really tough 2-300 m sections
Flats:
River Road: Good bikelanes.
HWY 128: No bikelanes but quiet enough to enjoy as far as Healdsburg.
Tuesday Twilight Criterium: The first race I ever did so the course is special to me.
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| samtheman |
Posted on 03-09-2007 22:11
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I live half way up the side of the neckar valley, so theres plenty of steep climbs here, I don't ride much though, sometimes if the weather is good I do 5 km circuit(2km uphill, 2km downhill, 1km flat), too lazy to do more...
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 04-09-2007 15:57
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also where my grandparents live in Spain is a very good place to cycle.
They live in a valley so you go downhill to get out and then it's uphill all the way back baby
There is one quite famous one (locally famous) called Col d'Rates (that's how it sounds anyway) i haven't been up yet but my dad and grandad go up it everytime we're out. It is the toughest mountain around where myt grandad lives
the biggest one i went up was 8kms which was coolB)
it was of course made harder by the whether at 40ºC
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| LA4EVA |
Posted on 04-09-2007 16:18
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I've been up Mont Ventoux and it is a killer! 23 kilometers of about 7-8% gradient and when you get out of the trees and into Chalet Reynard it's about 40 degrees and about 10-11%, hardest but funnest thing i've ever done!!
Edited by LA4EVA on 04-09-2007 17:40
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| Addy291 |
Posted on 04-09-2007 16:23
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i hate riding up hills with trees around the side, it's like a sauna in there, there is a nother hill near me called Setringham completley surrounded by trees, boiling
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