Originally Posted by Grambo

I wish I could just hand you guys a shovel so you can just keep digging deeper into BS land. You do realize there are search engines called Google, Bing etc and topography data is readily available. The highest point in Hunterdon County NJ is 1066 ft above sea level and the lowest 50 ft above sea level making the total possible elevation change in a sustained climb (no down hills) roughly 1000 ft. On a 10% grade you're climbing roughly 528 ft. per mile which equates to climbing a 1000 ft in less than two miles .... hardly a prolonged climb that would certainly take less than 30 minutes and that's assuming there is a road in Hunterdon that goes from the lowest point to the highest over ~ 2 miles which seems very unlikely. To be clear I'm sure there are short steep climbs in Hunterdon that are challenging for even a strong cyclist but the climbs are relatively short. Hunterdon is hilly but certainly not mountainous and implying that you regularly climb 10% average grades for prolonged periods of time in a 52 x 18 just isn't believable. Not saying Dan can't do it for relatively short periods but just that it is highly unlikely he can do it for long periods of time.