Bhima.....

schweiz

I guess that depends on what you define as a hill!

willhub

schweiz wrote:

I guess that depends on what you define as a hill!

17% - 40%

The UK may not have really long hills, but it does have a crap load of easily accessible steep buggers.

schweiz

....but no 10 mile hills! Maybe 100m if you're lucky!

willhub

schweiz wrote:

....but no 10 mile hills! Maybe 100m if you're lucky!

You don't need 10 mile hills to be good at hills.

schweiz

willhub wrote:

schweiz wrote:

....but no 10 mile hills! Maybe 100m if you're lucky!

You don't need 10 mile hills to be good at hills.

Having ridden the Pennines through my teens/twenties and in the Alps every weekend now, I can say with some reasonable authority that there is a world of difference.

Not least the psychological effects of riding at 8-16% non stop for 1-2 hours. Pushing yourself over/through a 40% climb for 50-100 m is completely different.

willhub

Are you trying to say if I attempted one of these hills I'd end up falling off my bike and jumping around banging my feet?

schweiz

No. Unless that's what you normally do when cycling!

willhub

What time do you think you could do up the Cat and Fiddle, do you rekon you could average 25mph?

schweiz

25 mph? No way

That's 40 km/h

With an average of 3.2%, I reckon I could hold 25 km/h over that distance though. As mentioned earlier though, with Strava the times don't take into account what you've done prior to the segment or what you intend to do after.

nweststeyn

Well I think you are BOTH great, willhub and schweiz.

schweiz

I'm not great! I'm overweight, get dropped regularly on climbs but yet I'm astounded how one bloke riding up what is in the grand scheme of thing, a fairly short and not overly steep climb can generate so much interest on the forum.

B3rnieMac

From his posts on fb, he seems to have a tonne of excuses as to why his race results don't pan out. The last one I saw, despite his amazing numbers, was that he got stuck behind a fat guy who couldn't bridge a gap. Never mind the fact that his numbers should suggest that he GO ROUND said fatty and bridge it himself.....

willhub

schweiz wrote:

25 mph? No way

That's 40 km/h

With an average of 3.2%, I reckon I could hold 25 km/h over that distance though. As mentioned earlier though, with Strava the times don't take into account what you've done prior to the segment or what you intend to do after.

Well if you ever happen to ride up the cat, you'd get to the top and you'd likely say it was much harder than you thought.

I'd guess a pro rider on his own pushing up the cat could average about 22mph up it.

schweiz

willhub wrote:

I'd guess a pro rider on his own pushing up the cat could average about 22mph up it.

I guess they could, you only had to watch the world renowed climber Mark Cavendish on the 'fearsome' Box Hill climb to give you an idea how a pro rider rides a UK hill!

nweststeyn

Lolz

ddraver

schweiz wrote:

I'm not great! I'm overweight, get dropped regularly on climbs but yet I'm astounded how one bloke riding up what is in the grand scheme of thing, a fairly short and not overly steep climb can generate so much interest on the forum.

Because people get sucked in to arguments... :?:

schweiz

a_n_t

I think Bhima is finding out that all riding up the cat does is makes you better at riding up the cat.

Cleat Eastwood

a_n_t wrote:

riding up the cat makes you better at riding up the cat.

thats my claire baldings catchphrase