Just sayin. Ride to the top, bring Gollum, and throw him off my cliff some time you Fredos.

i'm starting to question if there really is a mrs. pcad at this point...

I'd be friggin dead without Mrs. Pcad. And I am not exaggerating or joking about that in any way.

so the red means it was about a 6% grade the whole time? how long was the climb?

Hate to admit that I laughed at another one.

Gotta admit that I like "Fredo" although these guys would shave their feet.

I think the last bit at 15-18% was him carrying his bike up the stairs to his back porch.

Any hill can be painful if you're killin it but the pain from riding Mount Doom would be pretty short lived. Mount Doom is far from fitting. I am proposing a contest to rename Mt. Doom to something more fitting. Go.

That altimeter on mapmyride isn't that accurate. It's probably a little steeper than it says.

been there, done that. it is a beotch of a climb. he ain't lyin.

Change your avatar. Those arent Mt.Doom worthy calves.

Pretty crappy mile there. Here's the worst of the last mile for me. What's incorrect about the gradient calculation is that it suggests 5 and 6% sections that don't exist.
The whole thing averages %14 if you do the math of 150 feet in elevation over a fifth of a mile (1056 feet). There's nothing less than 10% the whole way. I wish there were some 5% sections!

She's a girl, and she made it up Mt. Doom. Her calves are worthy.

You basically linked your online persona with your home... the internet now knows where you sleep.

^^ruh oh someone's gonna get that shiny new cervelo jacked

It's said "Chester, NY" in his profile's location field forever, dude. BFD.

Meh, he is easy enough to find anyway, at least for anyone who can follow the north star.

Average grade. Grade varies from 4-18%.

Oh no.

Who the F would want to come to friggin Chester, NY? Besides none of you could ever make it up this hill.

It actually concurs exactly with both my watch altimeter and the bike computer altimeter, about 375 vertical feet over a mile. Gradient estimates are pretty close as well.

This is Chester, not Houston. I could leave the stupid bike on my front porch all summer and it wouldn't budge. My local insurance agent has paid off one burglary claim in 25+ years. And if it ever should disappear it only means I get a new bicycle on my homeowner's insurance.

200' gain in 0.1 miles


300' in 0.3 miles

All according to mapmyride's algorithms of course.

Throw those two in amidst the rest of a 50 mile ride with a supposed 5000'+ on the map but some riders' cyclometers with readings of 7000'+. (They're trying to make it 10000' in 50 miles this year I hear, though I don't know how they'll be able to erase the downhills for that.)

I moved here a little late to catch this ride last year, but I'm here for it this year though! Nervous...

I've done Brynwood...sloppily (you have to climb there first) to my credit. I haven't ridden to College St. yet.

Here's a video from two years ago, though.

(Edit: Mapmyride link added for the 50 mile ride/walk.)

Htfu...

I'm going to have to hit this next time I'm out. Is rt.17 bike friendly at the JERZEE border (around franklin turnpike)? This would make a great out and back ~70 miles

I ride up this hill EVERY FRIGGIN DAY. There's the rub. No matter how tired I am, how many miles are in my legs, how bad the weather is (including snow), etc. THAT is what makes it Mt. Doom. Small hills get much larger at the END of a long hard ride. The other part is that when I get down to 3 miles, 2 miles, to go, it never seems that short, because the last mile is always this ball busting little hill. Doesn't bother me as much as it used to. After 1500+ reps, you start to get used to it. But it really never is an easy hill.

You don't want to ride your bicycle on Route 17. Trust me on this. The only way up here from NJ are rather convoluted back roads.