32.2 mile ride

[mjr]

I am used to steep descents round here. Follow THIS ONE down the hill on Streetview and you will see what I mean!

Is the alternative-looking "Ignore your Sat-Nav No Through Road" aka Marsh Lane / Winters lane / Turrett Hall Road any better? Also: no gradient warning signs or did I just miss them?

Reminds me of what was my road home... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3...4!1suurXKTyTp6Pqv52VI9rohw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 although I usually took one of the other roads home.

 

[jamma]

Nice!

Is this the average length of your rides?

I'm averaging 20 miles at 14.3 mph atm but starting to up my training now to get into some 30+ mile rides this week ready for the spring and then some sportives im hoping to do later in the year.

If your comfortably doing 30+ miles now i would work hard and go for the 75 mile one for sure, bigger challenge and you would feel more proud when you complete it

I do anything from 26 miles to what my body can take but that was the first 40 mile at 14 mph usually averge 13.5mph .

 

[Montydog]

I am doing the stockton sportive on june 25 @Montydog @rugby bloke don't know about mileage though but hopefully it will be 75 mile one

mmm looks a good one to do....

 

[jefmcg]

I am used to steep descents round here. Follow THIS ONE down the hill on Streetview and you will see what I mean!

Because that's a country road and in Yorkshire, it doesn't have the two visual clues that let you know how steep a hill is.

1. Pavement steps
2. Concrete surface, so it doesn't melt and run down the hill on the hot day.

(https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/hills-any-shame-in-walking-up-them.191698/post-4030084. NZ and Spain have warmer summers than Yorkshire)

 

[steveindenmark]

Jamma, I am a Yorkshireman exiled in Denmark. All you need now is a camera to take some photos and post them on here.:0)

 

[SteveBM]

Awesome..!

I am a scary cat when it comes to going downhill so I totally understand what you mean..

And by the way you beat me..! I did a 2 km ride yesterday after 3 weeks or so... (have to start somewhere right?) But I already can see that I am going to change a few break pads a year here in Spain....


I am avoiding this street no matter what..!

Cheers from warm South Spain..!

Yeah, you got to watch out for those grates, especially on a downhill, as I found on a recent trip to Tenerife. Make sure your front wheel is parallel with the metal bars or it'll flip you off! Also, it might be worth learning the art of the "bunny-hop" (easier clipped in), as on descending in Tenerife, I found a grate with no horizontal bars, only vertical bars! Had I hit that my front wheel would've been swallowed by the grate! A swift Bunny-Hop got me out of trouble!

 

[Kajjal]

well done @jamma and you proper hills up in Yorkshire not like the pretend ones we have in Northamptonshire

Thats what i thought until i went out in south west Northamptonshire. 35 miles and 2,500ft of climbing later i had changed my mind a bit. The longer climb which got so steep i was struggling to keep traction on the road nearly finished me off

 

[biggs682]

Thats what i thought until i went out in south west Northamptonshire. 35 miles and 2,500ft of climbing later i had changed my mind a bit. The longer climb which got so steep i was struggling to keep traction on the road nearly finished me off

what hill was that @Kajjal

 

[Kajjal]

what hill was that @Kajjal

The one on route 50 from newnham to daventry. It is easier from daventry to newnham direction but still gets steep.

 

[biggs682]

The one on route 50 from newnham to daventry. It is easier from daventry to newnham direction but still gets steep.

wrong side of county for me , my passport is not valid over there

 

[Kajjal]

 

[jamma]

mmm looks a good one to do....

It should be and riding the same roads as the pros as stockton is holding the national championships

 

[ColinJ]

[Sorry for getting distracted onto the subject of steep hills in your thread, jamma! ]

Is the alternative-looking "Ignore your Sat-Nav No Through Road" aka Marsh Lane / Winters lane / Turrett Hall Road any better? Also: no gradient warning signs or did I just miss them?

That is more of a farm track/bridleway in the mid-section. Fine for MTBs and CX bikes. I did do it once on my road bike, with care, but it was a bit iffy.

As for gradient warnings ... There didn't used to be any warnings but a tanker containing LPG crashed on the 90 degree bend at the bottom of the steepest section when its brakes failed. Signs were erected at the top and bottom after that showing the recommended longer route.

There is at least one gradient sign for the 25% bit but you wouldn't see that until you were halfway up/down the climb/descent!

Because that's a country road and in Yorkshire, it doesn't have the two visual clues that let you know how steep a hill is.

1. Pavement steps
2. Concrete surface, so it doesn't melt and run down the hill on the hot day.

We have steep concrete roads here too!

Yeah, you got to watch out for those grates, especially on a downhill, as I found on a recent trip to Tenerife. Make sure your front wheel is parallel with the metal bars or it'll flip you off! Also, it might be worth learning the art of the "bunny-hop" (easier clipped in), as on descending in Tenerife, I found a grate with no horizontal bars, only vertical bars! Had I hit that my front wheel would've been swallowed by the grate! A swift Bunny-Hop got me out of trouble!

A mate of mine lived on Tenerife for a few years and he crashed on one of the descents off Teide when his front wheel went into one of those grates.