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 2009-02-28 4:54 PM |
Master 2460   |  Subject: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike?I barely survived it all the way up a 19.5% incline today on my 53-39 geared TT bike. I don't think I'll be doing that too often again. This was after doing 3 other hills of 8%, 15%, and 11%. What's the steepest hill you've climbed? |
| 2009-02-28 5:03 PM in reply to: #1988022 |
Expert 938 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? 23% Of course this was after being stopped cold about 200 feet from the crest and falling over (I ran out of gears and stamina and did not unclip in time). I rested a minute and got up the last 200 feet. |
 2009-02-28 5:11 PM in reply to: #1988022 |
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| 2009-02-28 5:18 PM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? Street called Moreno in PV., no idea of percentage... What climbs did you do today? I was out on Latigo and Stunt ETA - you might like this link http://www.birthdaychallenge.com/links/notesonclimbs.html Edited by ChrisM 2009-02-28 5:19 PM |
| 2009-02-28 6:46 PM in reply to: #1988022 |
| New user 96 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? Quarry hill, N. Uxbridge, MA .5 miles, 230 ft climbing, wich is about 25-27% if i did the math correctly |
| 2009-02-28 7:03 PM in reply to: #1988354 |
Expert 908 Niskayuna, New York | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? There's a road not too far from me called Platte Cove (aka Devil's Kitchen). They can't even plow it in the winter due to its steep and twisty nature. Legend has it a few years ago a couple pros were reduced to a walk during the Tour of the Catskills. I think it averages something like 19% over 3 miles and has stretches in the mid 20s. |
| 2009-02-28 7:04 PM in reply to: #1988022 |
Science Nerd 28760  Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? The last hill in the horribly hilly hundred. 25-30% grade? I don't remember how long the climb was - I'm guessing about a km based on the maps I've seen and about 900 feet elevation change.
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| 2009-02-28 7:10 PM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Champion 6503 NOVA - Ironic for an Endurance Athlete | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? |
| 2009-02-28 7:18 PM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Extreme Veteran 763 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? 22% for .8 miles. Hills like this will take your breath away for sure. chevy57 |
| 2009-02-28 8:03 PM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Master 2460 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? Dang. Just when I was thinking I was on my way to becoming bad-$$$ on the bike, I see 31% Savageman. Wow! You all are hardcore! ChrisM - I'm in NorCal this week - I did Latigo last week, and it was much smoother this time around for me - I actually felt very comfortable on my 39-25! Edited by agarose2000 2009-02-28 8:03 PM |
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| Master 1826 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? |
| 2009-02-28 11:00 PM in reply to: #1988768 |
| Champion 7233 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? i'm not sure if it is or not, but thompson hill in the first olympic race of TTT feels like a cliff |
| 2009-03-01 6:03 AM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Master 2491 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? Don't know the percentage, but Centennial Road in Berkeley, CA goes from the football stadium up to the crest of the foothills behind. There are some pretty steep stretches in there. Also, I think it's Baker St. in San Francisco, leading from the Bay up the hill, although you get a break every block when there's a cross street. Fun times. I miss hills here in my flat West Michigan home. |
| 2009-03-01 7:01 AM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Member 68 Norristown, PA | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? Just for comparison, does anybody know what the grade for the Manyunk Wall is here in Philadelphia? I watch the National Championship race here every year & this is the first time I acutally walked up it to watch the races(I try to avoid the crowds there). It seem insane to me that they do this 12 times over the course of the race. |
| 2009-03-01 7:31 AM in reply to: #1989101 |
| Extreme Veteran 614 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? kayakguy - 2009-03-01 8:01 AM Just for comparison, does anybody know what the grade for the Manyunk Wall is here in Philadelphia? I watch the National Championship race here every year & this is the first time I acutally walked up it to watch the races(I try to avoid the crowds there). It seem insane to me that they do this 12 times over the course of the race.
The Wall is 17% at its steepest section. |
| 2009-03-01 7:47 AM in reply to: #1988354 |
| Uxbridge | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? gazelle5333 - 2009-02-28 7:46 PM Quarry hill, N. Uxbridge, MA .5 miles, 230 ft climbing, wich is about 25-27% if i did the math correctly You did! I do this hill regularly. Great ride |
| 2009-03-01 7:49 AM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Champion 5529 Nashville, TN | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? I second what Aaron said. The last 200 feet of that hill in Hawaii was all out brutal. In the south it doesn't get any better than Hogpen Gap. It may not reach 20% but you stay in the teens for about 5 miles of climbing. Oh and this after you have already climbed at least 2 other Gaps to get there.
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| 2009-03-01 8:07 AM in reply to: #1989150 |
| Champion 6539 South Jersey | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? The Manayunk Wall. However, I'm not certain of the grade as everything I read says something different (14-18.5%). I did, however, climb another hill in Manayunk that I think is steeper than The Wall. |
| 2009-03-01 9:10 AM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Member 12 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? grade: infinity hill: vert ramp Actually don't know the grade but it was a 48 mile mtb ride back and forth across the continental divide in colorado three summers ago. Snow, glacier, hail storm, lightning storm at 13k feet, rain and sun all in a day of riding. Best ride I have ever been on. Edited by Ganze 2009-03-01 9:10 AM |
| 2009-03-01 9:34 AM in reply to: #1988354 |
| Master 1651 Breckenridge, CO | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? gazelle5333 - 2009-02-28 5:46 PM Quarry hill, N. Uxbridge, MA .5 miles, 230 ft climbing, wich is about 25-27% if i did the math correctly That climb is 230 / (0.5*5280) = 0.871 = 8.7%. That's a very steep climb equal to pitch to those in the Tour de France only much, much shorter. Just like in skiing, cycling pitches are greatly exaggerated. The Westernport Wall climb is listed in the Savageman map as 0.16 miles. The steepest 0.16 mile grade I could find on Rock St, in Westernport, MD is 16.7% (below) which is incredibly steep, about the limit of what is rideable by non-pros with normal road gearing. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/map.asp?route... I've read people state the steepest part is only one block but the steepest individual block (and half block) I could find was 19%. |
| 2009-03-01 9:46 AM in reply to: #1989155 |
| Master 1651 Breckenridge, CO | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? ADollar79 - 2009-03-01 6:49 AM In the south it doesn't get any better than Hogpen Gap. It may not reach 20% but you stay in the teens for about 5 miles of climbing. From that profile, the part labeled 12-14% appears to start at 27.3 and end at 29.5 which is 2.3 miles. It appears to rise from 2250 to 3310 which is 1060 feet. So the grade is 1060 / (2.3 * 5280) = 8.7% which is a killer hill. Just to put in perspective how steep that is, I'm not aware of anything paved in Colorado that has that pitch for 2.3 miles. It may exist but it's very rare. |
| 2009-03-01 10:11 AM in reply to: #1988022 |
| Master 1651 Breckenridge, CO | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? Answering the OP... This is the steepest hill I can remember riding. It's in San Diego, 8.6% for 735 feet. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/map.asp?route... This is the hill I do at the end of every ride back up to my house and will soon be doing repeats on when it melts out, 7.0% for 620 feet. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/map.asp?route... ETA: That birthdaychallenge . com url above is awesome. Thanks for posting it! Edited by breckview 2009-03-01 10:19 AM |
| 2009-03-01 10:21 AM in reply to: #1989341 |
| Expert 938 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? breckview - 2009-03-01 10:46 AM ADollar79 - 2009-03-01 6:49 AM In the south it doesn't get any better than Hogpen Gap. It may not reach 20% but you stay in the teens for about 5 miles of climbing. From that profile, the part labeled 12-14% appears to start at 27.3 and end at 29.5 which is 2.3 miles. It appears to rise from 2250 to 3310 which is 1060 feet. So the grade is 1060 / (2.3 * 5280) = 8.7% which is a killer hill. Just to put in perspective how steep that is, I'm not aware of anything paved in Colorado that has that pitch for 2.3 miles. It may exist but it's very rare.So, how are the websites measuring the pitch, as compared to your example? For example, I've included the profile of a ride I do, which has a stated 25% grade at one point in the ride. I'd agree with that, since my driveway is steep and was surveyed at 8%, and the hills on my ride are a lot worse.
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| 2009-03-01 10:38 AM in reply to: #1989341 |
| Master 1826 | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? breckview - 2009-03-01 10:46 AM ADollar79 - 2009-03-01 6:49 AM In the south it doesn't get any better than Hogpen Gap. It may not reach 20% but you stay in the teens for about 5 miles of climbing. From that profile, the part labeled 12-14% appears to start at 27.3 and end at 29.5 which is 2.3 miles. It appears to rise from 2250 to 3310 which is 1060 feet. So the grade is 1060 / (2.3 * 5280) = 8.7% which is a killer hill. Just to put in perspective how steep that is, I'm not aware of anything paved in Colorado that has that pitch for 2.3 miles. It may exist but it's very rare.I often think of hills in cycling as the the size of the fish when fishing.. always listed as bigger and steeper.. I haven't ridden westernport wall (savageman) but I have not been able to find the 31% using the standard rise/run.. steep paved grades do exist.. the Whiteface climb I posted above looks like this: http://www.whitefacerace.com/images/bikeracecoursemaplg.jpg Mile 1: 443ft rise = 8.39% most times the extreme grade is for at most .25 mile and has an alternating flatter/steeper look
Edited by slake707 2009-03-01 10:43 AM |
| 2009-03-01 10:49 AM in reply to: #1989386 |
| Master 1651 Breckenridge, CO | Subject: RE: What's the steepest hill you've climbed on a bike? kagoscuba - 2009-03-01 9:21 AM So, how are the websites measuring the pitch, as compared to your example? They either aren't or the 12-14% number is the maximum pitch on the climb which sounds reasonable for an 8.6% sustained average pitch. On the Westernport Wall there may be a 31% section for like 10 feet measured with a clinometer or survey. But the way to define and compare climbs requires at least two numbers (Eg. 31% for 10 feet). For example, I've included the profile of a ride I do, which has a stated 25% grade at one point in the ride. You can compute the maximum and/or average grades of that profile just like I did. The biggest climb looks like 530 feet over two miles which is 530/(2 * 5280)=5.0% which will certainly get your attention. Although, you can see there are steeper short sections. You may find a very short 25% section. You probably won't. If it exists, it's probably not visible from the resolution of the profile. Most likely, someone who rode it found what appeared the be the steepest part and laid a clinometer on the ground and it read X degrees which was converted to 25%. A clinometer measures the pitch on a section only a couple inches long. We lay them on ski poles (measuring a 5 foot pitch) on a pitch that is representative of what we're attempting to ski. ETA: They also may be using a GPS or/or Pressure altimeter reading of maximum pitch over the ride but those would be ridiculously inaccurate. Edited by breckview 2009-03-01 11:05 AM |
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