The 100 Best UK Climbs not featured in Warren's books

ugo.santalucia

OK, I start, to follow up copy the list and add your own in sequential order... only hills you have climbed

01) The old Horseshoe pass 1.5 km at 13% 10/10
02) New Road from Draycott 2.0 km at 10.5% 9/10
03) Sudeley Hill from Winchcombe 2.5 km at 8.5% 7/10

bondurant

For reference: https://cyclinguphill.com/100-climbs/

First.Aspect

There's one on there that ascends 32m. I cycle up at least three that are more notable every evening. It is a fairly hopeless list, frankly.

sloppyschleckonds

Chatted to a couple earlier this year, just taken up cycling and were driving around the UK with their bikes, to then ride all the the Top 100.

The Worlds gone mad.

Good shout for number 2 though.

cycleclinic

No1 is brilliant. Did it a couple of years ago at the end of December when it was erm freezing. The decent the other side was hairy. Cold potentially ice and then cattle grids at 30+ mph. Gulp, pray and then back up to go down the other way. The follies of youth.

bobmcstuff

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

Chatted to a couple earlier this year, just taken up cycling and were driving around the UK with their bikes, to then ride all the the Top 100.

The Worlds gone mad.

Good shout for number 2 though.

I mean, if it gets them out and about, and into cycling, then I'm not going to argue too much... there are some good climbs in there.

I would add the climb from Fort Augustus... 8.5km, 392m (although much of it is steeper). Some others around Aberdeenshire which I would include possibly as well, given some of the pimples in the South East which warrant inclusion.

ugo.santalucia

bobmcstuff wrote:

I would add the climb from Fort Augustus... 8.5km, 392m (although much of it is steeper). Some others around Aberdeenshire which I would include possibly as well, given some of the pimples in the South East which warrant inclusion.

Then add it to the list...

ugo.santalucia

thecycleclinic wrote:

No1 is brilliant. Did it a couple of years ago at the end of December when it was erm freezing. The decent the other side was hairy. Cold potentially ice and then cattle grids at 30+ mph. Gulp, pray and then back up to go down the other way. The follies of youth.

Same climb? The other side is the A road, no cattle grids... I looked on Strava and you haven't done it... it's the new Horseshoe you did

https://www.strava.com/activities/813983414/

Moonbiker

Prenteg: 9/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/5203973

Nice views from the top over Pen LLyn

Worlds End near the horseshoe 7/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/3457608


Rhiw: 7/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/7505141

Rhydd 8/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/708867

The Ranges: (used to be an old shooting range) 10/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/5745138?filter=overall

Whatt the scores suppose to mean hardness ir how much you like them?

I did it for how much i like.

North Wales has a lot of climbs :roll:

ugo.santalucia

Moonbiker wrote:

Prenteg: 9/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/5203973

Nice views from the top over Pen LLyn

Worlds End near the horseshoe 7/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/3457608


Rhiw: 7/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/7505141

Rhydd 8/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/708867

The Ranges: (used to be an old shooting range) 10/10

https://www.strava.com/segments/5745138?filter=overall

Whatt the scores suppose to mean hardness ir how much you like them?

I did it for how much i like.

Score for hardness, but follow my template and give them a number, so that we can see the list growing, hopefully to 100.

First.Aspect

Lowther Hill https://www.climbbybike.com/climb.asp?C ... ainID=3970

Glen Quaich including the 150m of ascent that doesn't qualify as a climb in the view of the "top 100"
https://www.climbbybike.com/climb.asp?C ... ainID=3965

Wall of Talla https://veloviewer.com/segment/4339510

Stow Hill climb- https://veloviewer.com/segment/2616985/ ... ships+2012

Glen Etive? Although its an out and back to the A82 which is not a good road.

ugo.santalucia

anarchy... :-(

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Unless every hill listed has been ridden by all participants in this post, how can we possibly rank them all?

ugo.santalucia

NitrousOxide wrote:

Unless every hill listed has been ridden by all participants in this post, how can we possibly rank them all?

We are not ranking them... we are putting them down in numerical order... ranking is subjective... just like Warren's...

Numerical order seems to be the issue... :roll:

ugo.santalucia

Let's do it differently... let's start from 201, since Warren's books cover 200 of them

201) The old Horseshoe pass 1.5 km at 13% 10/10
202) New Road from Draycott 2.0 km at 10.5% 9/10
203) Sudeley Hill from Winchcombe 2.5 km at 8.5% 7/10

pblakeney

204) Tak Me Doon from Kilsyth. Short but kicks you so hard, so many times. 8/10.
4.3km @ 6.1%, 14% max. apparently, although my Garmin, Strava, and legs registered 18%.

mrb123

205) Wolfcleugh Common between Rookhope and Allenheads, Durham Dales. A long and steady drag in remote, wild countryside. Some lovely new tarmac for the last couple of miles. An omission both from the two top hundred books and his North East specific book.

Escher303

206) Corney Fell, Cumbria, 7/10 4.3 miles, 5%, 1180 feet.

davep1

It's a pimple in the south east, but I think its the hardest pimple... Bignor Hill in Sussex
https://strava.app.link/9yAm01RT4P
I don't think it's in either of the 100 books?

honeybadger99

Escher303 wrote:

206) Corney Fell, Cumbria, 7/10 4.3 miles, 5%, 1180 feet.

+ 1

philbar72

Tanhurst Lane in the surrey Hills (part of the Leith hill area). peaks at around 19% in several noticeable steps.
Ranmore road (leading up to the church is like a 1% harder version of Combe lane. the hairpin is notoriously slightly longer and steeper than the Combe one and the road even more worn than Combe, making it a slightly tougher proposition.

bobmcstuff

207) Climb from Fort Augustus, 8.5km at 4% (393m gain)

https://www.strava.com/segments/723617

Although the stats are deceptive as the first 0.5km of the Strava segment is flat, there's a small descent in the middle and a short flat part in the top third. The hardest bit is 2km long starting from 0.5km, and is a proper staircase climb with a series of pitches at around 20%.

It's also the main climb on the Etape Loch Ness so quite a lot of people have ridden it.

chippyk

The one where I live, 350m at 7%. Absolutely fine unless you have a long ride into the wind in your legs and are starving hungry. More than once I’ve stood at the junction and thought how the hell an I going to get up there.

ugo.santalucia

ChippyK wrote:

The one where I live, 350m at 7%. Absolutely fine unless you have a long ride into the wind in your legs and are starving hungry. More than once I’ve stood at the junction and thought how the hell an I going to get up there.

BIt too short though... if it was 350 mt at 25% and cobbled, then maybe...

cld531c

Cowlow Lane, Combs, Derbyshire.
Cant find it on Strava to get distance and gradient but it is horrible!
Poor surface, steep and narrow - just missing the cobbles for the full effect.

Dorset_Boy

Here's mine:
https://www.strava.com/segments/18789516

208) Woolland ascent of Bulbarrow -
1.9 kms, 8% average but goes up in ramps with the steepest pitches touching 25%.

haydenm

First Aspect wrote:

Lowther Hill https://www.climbbybike.com/climb.asp?C ... ainID=3970

Glen Quaich including the 150m of ascent that doesn't qualify as a climb in the view of the "top 100"
https://www.climbbybike.com/climb.asp?C ... ainID=3965

Wall of Talla https://veloviewer.com/segment/4339510

Stow Hill climb- https://veloviewer.com/segment/2616985/ ... ships+2012

Glen Etive? Although its an out and back to the A82 which is not a good road.

Talla and Lowther are locals for me, both horrid. Talla is one of my favourites though

mfin

There's hell of a lot of amazing climbs around Surrey isn't there? Where all the really serious cyclists live, who are really into researching and buying the latest and lightest cycling hardware available. Like that nasty 3% one coming out of Guildford.

surfercyclist

Scoring though totally subjective and hence pointless. Someones 10/10 might be someone elses 7/10 etc.

gingerflash1975

Bazillions of them in the Yorkshire Dales. Whenever I see that list I'm always surprised at how few are in the Dales.

I'd suggest, to start, The Fleak (also known as Fleak Moss), Park Rash, Coal Road, Grinton Moor, Lamps Moss, and Lofthouse (Trapping Hill).

Of course Buttertubs and Fleet Moss have opposite sides, which have their own charms/horrors.

Ted Mason

I like this one. It's not the steepest or longest by a long way but, if you put your back into it you'll crack a sweat plus the view from the top is outstanding

209) Whiteways hill, Dorset 2.1 km long, 6% average 120 m gain

https://www.strava.com/segments/12396563