Hills of hell

[bobcat]

Chick-hill between Fairlight and Hastings, tried it once and my front wheels came off the ground! Have not tried it since!!!

 

[Thompson]

Not sure of the name, but it's hill leaving Durham. It's a slow and steady start goes for a couple of mile, then the gradient really steps up. It's on a 60mph road with no path and there's me going 0.001mph up it. Hanging over the front of the bike trying to weigh it down but failing. The best i've done on it was stopping only once. Nearly killed me though! One day I will get up it, whether i'm towed or not is a whole different matter.

 

[YahudaMoon]

I tried Mam Tor with full touring / camping kit for a weeks audaxing on my compact audax bike for a pre tour audaxing recce ride

Result for myself was walk it lol.

I think I would have a good chance on a quiche triple though ?

 

[Ajay]

The torture that is Roeburndale, from Wray to Littledale. Oh shoot, my chain has snapped just thinking about it.

 

[martint235]

This is the one and only hill I've ever snapped a chain on. It doesn't look much and it isn't very long but they eventually went to the trouble of building a little ring road off to the left just to get around it.

Link didn't work properly. Click the little blue marker and select street view

 

[totallyfixed]

This little tiddler as I posted in another thread:

 

[HLaB]

The above two posts remind me of Culross Hill (the tarmac has been stripped back to reveal the old cobbles). I don't mind going up but its a hill I'd avoid going down, I ve done it a few times, can you tell

 

[jdtate101]

Worst I've ever attempted was Round Coit tower in San Francisco....now that's tough.....or back from Fisherman's Wharf to Market Street (Hyde Street)....insane. If You've ever seen the car chase from Bullit...well this was those hills.

 

[wintonbina]

There's a couple of hills near Tiverton that were tough on our LeJoG which knocked spots off the infamous Shap (which I found relatively easy...ish!)

 

[lukesdad]

I love climbing, but my shoulder is fubared and I struggle up the really steep hills with the gears I have - 39 x 24 is the lowest my best bike takes.

The only hill I haven't got up (without stopping) due to my shoulder was the Jenkins Chapel ascent of Pyms Chair - just outside Macclesfield in the Peak District. This is upto 1 in 5 but the gradient constantly changes, it's quite long and it's twisty - you can't see the top, so its psychologically hard too.

I will get over it one day, but I try and avoid going that way as you've got a choice of Pyms Chair or Lamaload (which is a pig but it's a constant gradient of 1 in 5)

Ive been talking to Marinyork amongst others about Peak climbs. Ive cycled all over the peaks without knowing their names ( Only realised where winnats was the other day) Have you got a link to that climb ?

 

[Poacher]

Vikeonabike's gone very quiet suddenly.

 

[TobyM]

South Wales has so many steep and long hills, that it's too difficult to choose just one of them! There are a couple on the Dragon Sportive, that will test some people, but here's three of the almost vertical ascents in our area > The Glyn! The Sugar Loaf! Bleanavon from Abergavenny! And there are lots more of them in this locality, we cannot avoid them, we are surrounded by them.

As does Mid Wales, and North Wales.. I think it's just Wales really! I did a tour from Ludlow, to Borth, to Fishguard and then to Manorbier a few weeks ago, we were meant to go from Manorbier to Brecon, and then Brecon to Ludlow but we just didn't feel up to it. I think some of the worst hills are coming out of Fishguard (old town), coming out of Borth and crossing some of the hills between Ludlow and the coast. The whole coast road between Aberystwyth and Fishguard is quite hilly too. I've also cycled up what I believe is the steepest hill in Britain - Fford Pen Llech in Harlech. It was one way, going down, but there were no cars so I went for it! (On a mountain bike).

Fford Pen Llech

 

[HLaB]

Realised on my ride today, there is one Hill I avoid, Townhill Road but that is usually in a downhill direction.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I have a theory about hills. It isn't the gradient or even the length that cause problems, it's how far ahead you can see.

I have a 1 in 6 on my doorstep that is an absolute bastard, you can see nearly all the way to the top from the start of the climb and everytime you glance up you never seem to have got any closer so moral dives and the physical reserves deplete with it.

A few miles away is a 1 in 4 that doesn't give me half as much trouble because the road twists quite sharply. There is nothing to see ahead so you just get on with it and concentrate on getting the pedals round.

 

[400bhp]

Ive been talking to Marinyork amongst others about Peak climbs. Ive cycled all over the peaks without knowing their names ( Only realised where winnats was the other day) Have you got a link to that climb ?

Here you go mate

This road-looking from the top. I not 100% sure of the exact location of Pym's chair but it's somewhere on Smith Lane, Erwin Lane & Hooleyhey Lane.