Originally Posted by oboeguy
7% for 4.5 miles. IIRC "Alpine d'Huez" averages just under 7% and it's 2.2km or so if you start from the river level. So BM is like 3-3.5 times as long at roughly the same grade. Sounds like a nice challenge for climb-deficient NYCers.
I'm curious, where is "Alpine d'Huez"? Is that on 9W somewhere? This thread has convinced me to try this BM climb soon - thanks for the info.