gam001
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Mmm today's ride was hilly. Not the normal type of hilly but deliberately painful. It started off with a passing comment I might do the Strava segment "A Masochists Delight" in short a segment that links three of the nastiest but individually short climbs in quick succession. Two at there max are about 1:5 and one is a 1:4. Quite why I thought about doing this let alone coming out with the statement I will never know. The next error was letting @400bhp plot the route. He likes his steep hills
I'm more of a tempo long climb kind of a guy. I know this area well and looked at the proposed route and thought interesting haven't tried some of those roads.
Met at the RV and headed off to Bollington. Got to the start of the first climb Blaze Hill and promptly had my chain jump off the cassette as l changed down and watched 400 bhp disappear into the distance. Got the chain back on and went on up the climb. I had ridden it recently so new when to push and when to sit and spin. Met Mr BHP at the top of the climb onto the next and probably the hardest of the three Pyms Chair. It is a right bugger and I had avoided it for probably three years. It hadn't got easier. The 25% bit after nearly a mile is orrible. It is one of those hills where the chimp in your head says "what are you doing that for? You really don't need to you could stop and get off". Anyway I told the hairy fecker to bog off and grunted up the rest of the climb. Then onto the next climb Goyt Lane out of the Goyt Valley. Probably the easiest in terms of gradient, but dead straight for probably half a mile plus and there are no noticeable features to use as a point of reference so you think great I am half way up only to see a car appear over the summit and you realise you are only a quarter of the way up. Got to the top and rolled down into Buxton then up the Cat and Fiddle road peeling off towards Congleton to stop at Blaze Ice Cream Farm for sustenance. Ice cream was the order of the day Very nice it was as well. @potsy this one is for you buddy. View attachment 46241
Gratuitous bike shot.
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We were feeling the climbing which at that point was 3000 ft over 20 miles. I asked 400bhp which way we were heading back to which he replied the Barsteward Hill near Wildboar Clough. Mmm odd name I thought. As you probably have guessed by now that is not its proper name more a description of what you call it as you struggle up it. Up another interesting climb out of Langley village which was pretending it wasn't a climb by being shrouded in trees, bloomin was though. Back onto the Cat and Fiddle Road. Can't be anymore climbs I know this road too well. Wrong we cut through down to Rainow where instead of following the normal Kerridge Road the route decided climbing up the steep climb to the higher road would be better. Back through Bollington and Prestbury and a few miles across the plain and back home. 50ish miles 5000ish feet of climbing. Not the hilliest of rides in the area but the severity of the climbs encountered made it character building.
Nice riding 71!Mmm today's ride was hilly. Not the normal type of hilly but deliberately painful. It started off with a passing comment I might do the Strava segment "A Masochists Delight" in short a segment that links three of the nastiest but individually short climbs in quick succession. Two at there max are about 1:5 and one is a 1:4. Quite why I thought about doing this let alone coming out with the statement I will never know
Met at the RV and headed off to Bollington. Got to the start of the first climb Blaze Hill and promptly had my chain jump off the cassette as l changed down and watched 400 bhp disappear into the distance. Got the chain back on and went on up the climb. I had ridden it recently so new when to push and when to sit and spin. Met Mr BHP at the top of the climb onto the next and probably the hardest of the three Pyms Chair. It is a right bugger and I had avoided it for probably three years. It hadn't got easier. The 25% bit after nearly a mile is orrible. It is one of those hills where the chimp in your head says "what are you doing that for? You really don't need to you could stop and get off". Anyway I told the hairy fecker to bog off and grunted up the rest of the climb. Then onto the next climb Goyt Lane out of the Goyt Valley. Probably the easiest in terms of gradient, but dead straight for probably half a mile plus and there are no noticeable features to use as a point of reference so you think great I am half way up only to see a car appear over the summit and you realise you are only a quarter of the way up. Got to the top and rolled down into Buxton then up the Cat and Fiddle road peeling off towards Congleton to stop at Blaze Ice Cream Farm for sustenance. Ice cream was the order of the day Very nice it was as well. @potsy this one is for you buddy. View attachment 46241
Gratuitous bike shot.
View attachment 46256
We were feeling the climbing which at that point was 3000 ft over 20 miles. I asked 400bhp which way we were heading back to which he replied the Barsteward Hill near Wildboar Clough. Mmm odd name I thought. As you probably have guessed by now that is not its proper name more a description of what you call it as you struggle up it. Up another interesting climb out of Langley village which was pretending it wasn't a climb by being shrouded in trees, bloomin was though. Back onto the Cat and Fiddle Road. Can't be anymore climbs I know this road too well. Wrong we cut through down to Rainow where instead of following the normal Kerridge Road the route decided climbing up the steep climb to the higher road would be better
I recognise that place...Mr Bhp must have punished me round there in the past!
If you let him do the route then expect steep stuff and/or an off road section :-)
I take it your bike is on the left with the aggressive position?
P.s. What is that tree stump meant to be? :-)
) and we went back to the spot so I could point it out to them.
, I see it as punishment for my many past sins, dr_pink sees it as a training opportunity, sigh.
