Originally Posted by
FLvector
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.
This:
https://www.strava.com/segments/637075
Yeah, that's a bit of a grunt but it's short. 200ft tall. Looks to be less than a half mile as well...meaning the actual climb. 4/10ths.
Reminds me of this one up in my area, High Tor, similiar profile, twice the vertical:
https://www.strava.com/segments/619911
So...if that hill was a deciding factor for me in Fl, you could still do a 1x setup and use say...an 11-40.
But...I daresay 99% of the territory requires one ring.
If I did a double it would be 53-42...12-28.