Ascent times

Steve2020

Does anyone know if there is a website with fastest times for famous climbs?

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Sheptastic

Steve, try this http://tinyurl.com/28akgzz

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disquieting_museeuws

Here's a blog that may be lost on the above results

http://le-grimpeur.net/blog/archives/ca ... sic-climbs

Steve2020

Thanks for that Shep. Time well spent. I'd never heard of google before - is it new?

KevGuinness

just effing google it, very helpful and mature response to someones reasonable request for information on a forum dedicated to the subject he is asking about.

Priase disquieting_museeuws for providing a link which does not appear anywhere near the top of the google search so sarcastically suggested by Shep.

Steve2020

Yes thank you very much Disquieting Museews - a good site.

I thought someone somewhere would have compiled a list of recent ascent times for all the major Tour / Giro climbs but even Shep's mastery of the internet hasn't revealed one.

Cumulonimbus

Yeah, you'd have thought so. Must be a list somewhere?

Cyclismag do some analysis of ascent times. Ive done a bit of a search and i could only find a complete tour one from 2007 and some alps ones from 2009. There is a comparison with past tours on the 2007 tour

http://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?sid=3466

http://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?sid=5221

The links are in french which i dont speak but the names and numbers speak for themselves

EDIT: Pyrenees 2008 here. The text mentions the time of Riis up Hautacam in 1996.

http://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?sid=4348

Alps

http://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?sid=4386

Sheptastic

KevGuinness wrote:

just effing google it, very helpful and mature response to someones reasonable request for information on a forum dedicated to the subject he is asking about.

Priase disquieting_museeuws for providing a link which does not appear anywhere near the top of the google search so sarcastically suggested by Shep.

It was more a comment on people's inability to actually research something themselves rather than have others do the hard work for them, maybe thats is a sentiment shared by other forumites and perhaps why the topic had been open for a while, with lots of views and no responses.

But hey its only an internet forum, don't take it soo seriously Kev, you might turn into a troll...

RichN95.

Sheptastic wrote:

maybe thats is a sentiment shared by other forumites and perhaps why the topic had been open for a while, with lots of views and no responses.

Maybe, like me, looked at the query, didn't know of anything and moved on. If I'd known of a site I would have posted it. Either way I wasn't bothered by the post. But that's just me, I try to be a nice guy rather than a bit of a knob.

KevGuinness

Sheptastic wrote:

KevGuinness wrote:

just effing google it, very helpful and mature response to someones reasonable request for information on a forum dedicated to the subject he is asking about.

Priase disquieting_museeuws for providing a link which does not appear anywhere near the top of the google search so sarcastically suggested by Shep.

It was more a comment on people's inability to actually research something themselves rather than have others do the hard work for them, maybe thats is a sentiment shared by other forumites and perhaps why the topic had been open for a while, with lots of views and no responses.

But hey its only an internet forum, don't take it soo seriously Kev, you might turn into a troll...

Roooooooooooooaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr
Goes and hides under his bridge (is that trolls or some other mythical creature?)

Each to their own then, it could just be no one else had a relevant site bookmarked and so did not feel the need to comment.

sherer

well the forth link in google now links to this thread

disgruntledgoat

I was well pleased with 1:02 up the western side of the Aspin til I read that in Cyclismag.

KevGuinness

sherer wrote:

well the forth link in google now links to this thread

bump for the google and my mate Chris who is going home to google this subject after we were tlaking about it in the pub- hope you read this mate and remember I may be unfit but I am still faster than you- on a downhill anyway

donrhummy

Sheptastic wrote:

Steve, try this http://tinyurl.com/28akgzz

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I hate when people do this and, guess what, the answer is NOT in the results. :roll: