Climbing struggles

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    SmoggySteve wrote:
    I don't live there any more. I live near the dutch border which is as flat as a pancake for most of it. Only place to get a decent climb is if I can be bothered to ride out to Valkenburg. I know its not easy. Its bloody hard. (I thought you would have caught the tongue in cheek way I said it!)

    But even so, that gradient for that distance is not beyond the capability of a reasonably fit amateur in the right gear. Maybe not very fast but its possible. My wife managed to do similar climbs on an alu Cube Peloton with a compact / 12-30 cassette.

    I don't get the hype about the Valkenburg apart from having to cut through crowds I found it easier than several of the hills on my daily commute, in fact I rode it again about an hour later wearing civvies and a rucksack
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