Average climbing?

[Chrisc]

Round here it’s either straight up hill or straight down out of the door.
Using the bikehike site a ten mile loop I ride show up as having 980 feet of climbing which is about average for here. Almost 100 feet up per mile travelled. BUT if I also come back down to where I started, the descents being equal to the climbs, does that mean that I’m actually climbing nearly 200 feet per mile travelled? It bloody feels like it…

 

[jimboalee]

We've talked about this before.

If the hill does NOT have a chevron on the OS map, it's FLAT !!

One chevron - you are allowed to use your smaller chainring.

Two chevrons - where's my triple???

 

[Chrisc]

I only have one chainring and lots of chevrons...

 

[Kestevan]

We don't do "Flat" in Huddersfield.

The only bits that don't slope are Lakes.

 

[magnatom]

We don't do "Flat" in Huddersfield.

The only bits that don't slope are Lakes.

...and the lakes that do slope are rivers...

 

[Garz]

I normally find that whatever I climb I return to level after the loop!

 

[jimboalee]

We don't do "Flat" in Huddersfield.

The only bits that don't slope are Lakes.

Well I got up Holme Moss on a 22.5 lb Peugeot with 38 x 23 lowest !!

Everywhere else was flat. Or 'Little bumps'....

 

[Chrisc]

Well I got up Holme Moss on a 22.5 lb Peugeot with 38 x 23 lowest !!

Everywhere else was flat. Or 'Little bumps'....

No there's bugger all flat round here. Would be nice sometimes to nip out and do thirty easy flat miles fer a change.

Not tried Holme Moss just yet. Up to Emley Moor is enough at the mo. 50lb dutch city bike with seven speed hub gears. Gonna fly up there when I get my light roadie come spring!