Road Cycling - Wooooo crazy climb!

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TheKillerPenguin
09-13-04, 04:41 PM
New Paltz to Lake Minnewaska today on my mountain bike. thats 1300 feet of climb over 10 miles, or 1000 feet over 4-5 miles. First ride since my sidewall blew out 3 weeks ago. WOOO!!!!! Can't wait for a road bike :)


~Erik

geneman
09-13-04, 04:52 PM
Congrats!!

When you're ready to hit the wall, come on over to Western NY. Bopple Hill rises 750 ft in 0.8 miles. 22% grade in places.

-mark
TheKillerPenguin
09-13-04, 04:59 PM
Been on one of those things before up in the catskills, 700ft with a .9 mile hill. That was the worst hill of my life...can't wait to do it again :)

~Erik

btw why is steepness measured in % rather than degrees? Is % measured as % of vertical?

LordOpie
09-13-04, 05:01 PM
we have a road here, almost perfectly flat for hundreds of miles!
sizmaters
09-13-04, 05:17 PM
we have a road here, almost perfectly flat for hundreds of miles!

can i have directions? me no like d hills
turtlendog
09-13-04, 05:25 PM
we have a road here, almost perfectly flat for hundreds of miles!

... and a kicking headwind 12 hours a day?
Phatman
09-13-04, 06:46 PM
Been on one of those things before up in the catskills, 700ft with a .9 mile hill. That was the worst hill of my life...can't wait to do it again :)

~Erik

btw why is steepness measured in % rather than degrees? Is % measured as % of vertical?

% grade is the rise in feet over 100 feet. so 10 feet in one hundred is 10% rise.
LordOpie
09-13-04, 06:56 PM
can i have directions? me no like d hills
you can't miss it... it's called Kansas.


:D
oboeguy
09-13-04, 07:56 PM
Congrats!!

When you're ready to hit the wall, come on over to Western NY. Bopple Hill rises 750 ft in 0.8 miles. 22% grade in places.

-mark

Where is "Western NY"? (in the West of NY, durrr, no really, where?)
geneman
09-13-04, 09:32 PM
Where is "Western NY"? (in the West of NY, durrr, no really, where?)

South of Rochester ... Finger Lakes. The hill I mentioned is part of this ride (http://www.highlandercycletour.com/highlander.htm) that I did last Saturday. There are two other hills just like it on the route. The one at mile 65 is the real ball buster. I'm a decent cycling and I barely made it up in a 30x23.

-mark
oboeguy
09-14-04, 01:53 PM
South of Rochester ... Finger Lakes. The hill I mentioned is part of this ride (http://www.highlandercycletour.com/highlander.htm) that I did last Saturday. There are two other hills just like it on the route. The one at mile 65 is the real ball buster. I'm a decent cycling and I barely made it up in a 30x23.

-mark

Very cool. I went to school up in Ithaca and worked for a while after too. Great riding country up there.