Originally Posted by
Mr. Beanz
Hehehe! It's not really that hard. If you build up the endurance, I think you'd be surprised how much a clyde can do. On a ride like this, if you hold a pace, you can outride plenty of others. When I was in shape, I did best on The Bear. Lots of riders blowing by me at the bottom, lite racer types. By the time we hit 30-40 miles of climbing, I was riding by them and passing them back!
...At a good pace, not overextending myself. then it's about endurance and not sprinting uphills!
...I believe I finished #123 out of 400 rides Timed event). Not bad fror a Clyde!
The hard part for me would be the pacing as I tend to attack the hills just to get them over with. You'd have a blast in my riding area, rolling terrian and hills everywhere. Very little flat land at all. Of coarse if I want a flat ride I just go west about 4ok and not a hile for miles. Gets a little boriing though.