Originally Posted by wasted weasel
man how long does that take? do you ride it every day?
(i commute from woodbine/o'connor to Queen/John)
I commuted up until I started getting some snow on the ground and it got too cold. Just wasn't worth it. I was going to start again last week since it got warmer, too bad next week is the last week of school.
Was doing close to 300k a week on commute for about 10 weeks solid. On average it took me about 1:15 to get downtown, 29.2k'ish and about 1:25 to get back. Downhill/Uphill.
Going northbound on Yonge st. down Hoggs Hollow (bigass hill right before York Mills?) gives a really nice long fly downhill. Touched 65kph on my ultra beater bike last year.
Dying to see (not literally) how fast I can get down it on my Bianchi. What's your commute like time/distance wise?
Tried to get some accurate elevation data (DEM) from the free GIS stuff from gov't Canada, no good. I think they were offering only close to 10m resolution? Well that and I could never pin down the coordinates. I calculated it was about 0.5% average gradient downhill to downtown. This is masked by a whackload of hills. Notably the 401/yorkmills on yonge st. Further down the summerhill dip, and the st clair (chum 1050) hill.