Originally Posted by
UnfilteredDregs
For all intents and purposes that's flat. 1400 ft in 100 miles...the one hill is less than 3% for little over a mile. I could do the whole route in the big ring...
One of the larger hills on this route is
Sugarloaf. It's about 3/4 long, and about 16% grade at the steepest points. Buckhill is another at around 11%. You might do fine in your big ring, but I rarely see anybody climb it and several other hills in this area in the big ring. Mapmyride doesn't do well with estimating the grades. I wish I had long stretches of 5% grade to dig in and climb.