technically my street is brick, but compared to any modern asphalt or concrete road, it is fair IMHO to call it 'cobblestone'. it is plenty slick when wet.
about 20% of my neighborhood is like this and there are some dips and potholes. the pictured section in front of my house is smooth, atypically so. it's not bad with carbon bars and 25mm tires.
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Will be doing the Ronde van Vlaanderen tomorrow. If I get to it I'll take some pics of the cobbles.
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Group ride today has some gravel sections mapped out for it ... not the same though.
Nice. Looks like a few guys overestimated how hard they could hit that hill before detonating. What's the grade?
Not sure which hill it was, but this is the route: http://ridewithgps.com/trips/415457?...AHAUYi2M3iyu4G One of the hardest parts of MMRs is picking a line through the ruts and loose debris. Low gearing helps too.
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Nice. That area (all my experience is on the Cheddar side of the Mississippi) is a great, challenging place to ride.
My college town is pretty country, so lots of horrible pavement and gravel roads. On my cool-down run the other day, I found a brick stretch of road that lasts about 150m. Nothing crazy, but I'll try to snag a picture. I thought about setting up a circuit to hit the stretch every 4th straight away.
Our campus has lots of brick stretches, but I can't really ride my road bike through it. I do hit them on my commute to my friends, but that's on my mountain bike.
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I did "De Oude Kwaremont" last year when returning from a friend's housewarming party.
The grade is not too bad and it's quite long for a hill in Belgium.
The cobblestones, on the other hand, make it a real hell:
AdelaaR, I don't know if you're lucky or cursed to have that many steep cobbled hills around. The names are certainly legendary!
The downside of it is, especially this time of year, that I get stuck in traffic all the time because some race is on.
The big ones: Gent-Wevelgem, 3 daagse De Panne, De Ronde, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, etc...
And then a lot of unknown small races for amateurs and semi-pros.
They often actually go through my street and waiting half an hour or more just to be allowed to go home is typical.
I don't let it upset me though ... while other drivers are getting unnerved trying to find ways around it (which often don't exist) ...
I just get out of the car and watch the race
The short, but steep, hill up to the fort in Saarburg. Maybe 18%?
Nice. Reminded me of this masterpiece of short film.
I like it
All the roads around me *used to be* cobbles. A few bits still are.
Like this one block long section in my neighborhood:
I dont miss cobbles... They are cool to see in races on TV but hell to ride over in car much less a bike.I saw some here in Atlanta, but cant really remember where. Actually I may have just blocked them out of my mind and subconciously avoid those on my regular routes now.
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Church Hill in Richmond Virginia has cobbles. There's one section that's around 20 percent grade for a few hundred feet. Used to do repeats of it on lunch time rides.
The Tour Dupont did a circuit that included the cobbles in Church Hill as well as Shockhoe Slip.
Armstrong attacked on the cobbled climb in Churchill one year to win the stage.
US OPen also went through there.
Hopefully, they'll incorporate it when the Worlds come to Richmond.
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I grew up in the 804. My uncle lived on Church Hill for a while as did an old GF. I'd also like to see Monument Ave incorporated in the worlds.Church Hill in Richmond Virginia has cobbles. There's one section that's around 20 percent grade for a few hundred feet. Used to do repeats of it on lunch time rides.
The Tour Dupont did a circuit that included the cobbles in Church Hill as well as Shockhoe Slip.
Armstrong attacked on the cobbled climb in Churchill one year to win the stage.
US OPen also went through there.
Hopefully, they'll incorporate it when the Worlds come to Richmond.
Telemachus has, indeed, sneezed.
I did it on Saturday! I did the RvV Cyclo for the 5th time this past weekend. I actually hate Oude Kwaremont because of the length...Paterberg is brutal but at least it is only 300m long.
23rd Street is only one block but is brutal. We're still waiting for the official routes to be released and I'm hoping for some cobbled sections.
In the Beverly area of Chicago (far south) there are a few brick roads. Flat, but alot of fun to try and hold speed over
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