Originally Posted by
ericm979
A double century sounds harder and more tedious to me. But I like long climbs.
If the ride's so hard that very few can finish, not many will want to start, and you can't put on a ride if only a few people sign up.
Double centuries are hard, but if you have the climbing spread out, completely doable. I personally find rides that are just all about the climbing far more difficult. Climbing isn't my forte (to say the least), so that may be part of it.
As for a harder and harder ride, that makes no sense to me as after a point, it stops being fun (to me). But some of them billy goats love it to be so hard, they aren't sure they can finish. There's a joy in that kind of ride that, although I don't get it, I can see why they'd crave it.