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For its whole 500m or so in length
Yeah, not my finest ride but then it is actually 1.2km not 500m. I tried to tack it onto the back of a business trip thinking it would be a quick one to bag on the way home. Not a great idea after being sat on my arse in meetings all day. And a horse tried to eat my handle bar tape at the top of the climb 🙁
C'mon then - which ones... the S Wales contingent need to know
Starting with The Tumble and then slowly working West. As I'm a slow moving portly chap I'm spreading out the climbs over a long weekend and doing the tourist thing in between hurting myself. Think I'm finishing with the Black Mountain climb some time on Monday.
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millook?
One of the worst climbs so far was Crowcombe in Somerset; it's just relentless
You can't use the word 'relentless' unless you are talking about the Alps or greater. Nothing in the UK deserves it.
brutal then?
Whichever term is deemed acceptable I certainly won't be hurrying back! I still think relentless is a valid term for some UK climbs however. Riding from sea level up to the top of Exmoor a few months ago reinforced that view for me.
I walked up Millook a couple of years ago when doing sections of the SW coast path. Great view from the top marred only by the sight of one of my friends collapsing at the top. To be fair he had overindulged in the pub the night before. I seem to recall he managed to unzip and take off one removeable trouser leg but felt too buggered to be bothered with the other one. Not a good look.
Muro Di Sormano.
Used to be part of the Giro di Lombardia back in the 50's I think, but they were forced to take it out. It fell into disrepair but was resurfaced a few years ago and its back in the race this year. It's just 1.7 km long, average of 17%, topping out at over 25% in places.
The road is only 2m wide and is stencilled with quotes from famous riders saying what an impossible climb it is, plus every metre gained is also marked on the surface. It's the kind of road you cycle once, to prove you can and then never again.
I had to finish it because you wouldn't want to walk up it in cycling shoes and the idea of riding down it terrified me!
Isn't the Millook Climb on the Cornwall Tor sportive?
Grew up in Cornwall - so know full well that it's a land of short steep climbs
I think they took the coastal section out of this years Tor sportive.
It was blowing storm force straight off the atlantic.
Of the ones I've ridden (or tried and failed) the Devil's Staircase west of Abergwesyn is pretty steep in either direction (as said above), Vention Lane in FoD is steeper (again as said above) but one of the steepest I can remember is parts of the lane that goes up from Abergwynant on the A493 to the west of Dolgellau.
brutal then?
Yes, brutal is appropriate. UK climbs are either steep or long. Alpine ones (esp off-road) can be as steep as a steep UK climb AND go on for twice as long as a long UK one. I'd reserve relentless for those 🙂 Off road you can spend all morning and half the afternoon winching your way up stupidly steep fire-road that never lets up.
Bwlch Penbarras up from Ruthin got me recently 4 hours in, only worth a poxy single chevron. Also noteworthy is Sutton Bank east of Thirsk, about 500' in 3/4 mile, some 25%. [url= http://tinyurl.com/8f68bh4 ]tinyurl.com/8f68bh4[/url]