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RE: [kom_] Mt. Washington Hill Climb - New Hampshire USA

Sooner climb a cheaper hill!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim House [mailto:jhouse@...]
Sent: 04 March 2004 14:14
To: kom_@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [kom_] Mt. Washington Hill Climb - New Hampshire USA


Just wanted to let you all know.

The Mt. Washington hill climb takes 600 people.
The registration opened online at 6 am.
Before 7:30 am it was sold out.
For the 7.6 mile climb they charge $300.00 US!

Guess Hill Climbing is growing in this country!

NHJim





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Just wanted to let you all know. The Mt. Washington hill climb takes 600 people. The registration opened online at 6 am. Before 7:30 am it was sold out. For...
Jim House
dwctroop12
Offline Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
2:16 pm

Sooner climb a cheaper hill! ... From: Jim House [mailto:jhouse@...] Sent: 04 March 2004 14:14 To: kom_@yahoogroups.com Subject: [kom_] Mt. Washington...
Darren Earp
dearp123
Offline Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
2:52 pm

Or just climb it the day after! ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kom_/files/Policy%20Documents/ ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
Michael Mangino
mmpiolet
Offline Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
3:27 pm

... The fine is probably 600$ if you do that;o)) François...
Francois Siohan
francois_siohan
Offline Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
3:43 pm

They will drop the hammer on you if caught on a bike on this hill any day other than the race day. I can't confirm but have heard rumors that the fine is...
John Summerson
jsummers@...
Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
5:00 pm

Ok, then I will just ride Mt Evans, can ride it from my house...once the snow melts. Alot more fun and longer ride. Probably 10k feet of climbing from my ...
Michael Mangino
mmpiolet
Offline Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
5:32 pm

Is it a private road, then? Are all vehicles barred, or just bikes? Sounds = like road cycling over there is like golf -- a sport for affluent & exclusive ty=...
Richard
richmarst
Offline Send Email 		Mar 14, 2004
2:20 am

the money is used (officially) for some conservation project in the area. Cheers françois...
Francois Siohan
francois_siohan
Offline Send Email 		Mar 15, 2004
7:56 am

... I'd love to try Evans and/or Pike's Peak some day but I fear the altitude and don't think I'll ever have a good month to go out there and aclimatize to it....
karol.zielonko@...
karol_zielonko
Offline Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
8:06 pm

Karol, There are plenty of excellent lower elevation climbs here in Colorado as well. They are low enough that acclimatization should not be an issue. There...
Michael Mangino
mmpiolet
Offline Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
8:21 pm

Karol wrote ... Hi Karol As i have told on another occasion, the odds are that if you ever had the time to acclimatize, that would only make you about 3%...
Francois Siohan
francois_siohan
Offline Send Email 		Mar 5, 2004
8:03 am

I have ridden Evans twice but only one mile in the middle of Mt Washington. Based on this I consider Mt Washington a much harder climb. The altitude of...
John Summerson
jsummers@...
Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
8:23 pm

I have not done Mt.Washington, but have been on Mt. Evans. It is one of those situations, whereas you either have a problem or don't (speaking of altitudes)....
Sprtsaholc@...
sprtsaholc
Offline Send Email 		Mar 4, 2004
9:01 pm

... The Hill Climbing Business, maybe. $180,000 is a nice earner for somebody. For 10% of that entry fee you can enter a granfondo in Italy and do 10 times as...
Richard
richmarst
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2:11 am

******************************************************************** OUT OF OFFICE ******************************************************************** I'm...
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jiri_sehnal
Offline Send Email 		Mar 14, 2004
2:12 am

... It is an extravagant fee but, as Francois has already said, the money goes to a good cause, the Tin Mountain Conservation Center and this event is TMCC's ...
karol.zielonko@...
karol_zielonko
Offline Send Email 		Mar 15, 2004
10:37 am

I want to concur with Karol that, for hill climbers, getting to ride Mt Washington would be worth the price of admission as it probably is the toughest hill...
John Summerson
jsummers@...
Send Email 		Mar 15, 2004
1:47 pm

The price is damned high, but once it is fully booked within a very short time, the price seems to be widely acceptable and therefore good. If the ...
Jiri Sehnal
jiri_sehnal
Offline Send Email 		Mar 15, 2004
2:11 pm

BTW, I don't know if you guys had seen it or not but there will be a "Grand Fondo" type event from Denver to Vail on Sept 3rd, the Friday before the Pro...
Michael Mangino
mmpiolet
Offline Send Email 		Mar 15, 2004
3:34 pm

The annual Fargo Street Hill Climb is this weekend, Sunday, March 21, 9:00 a.m. - 1/10 of a miles, 33% grade and a tiny bit more near the top. Fargo Street is...
Dave Wyman
icyclist
Offline Send Email 		Mar 16, 2004
4:36 am

... What kind of gearing do you use? -Jennifer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
jen&dan
jenklau
Offline Send Email 		Mar 16, 2004
5:55 pm

... Succumbing to old age, I ride a mountain bike with extremely low gearing up Fargo Street. Typically I use something like 22x28. That's good enough to get...
Dave Wyman
icyclist
Offline Send Email 		Mar 16, 2004
7:40 pm

... I'd say that with a 33% grade you're entitled to the biggest cog and smallest chain ring you can find! You must have been having quite a day 13 years...
jen&dan
jenklau
Offline Send Email 		Mar 16, 2004
7:48 pm

Dave, how difficult is it to climb such hill using 39x27? Is it used by your brother only, or is such gearing normal? I use this gear for climbs like ...
Jiri Sehnal
jiri_sehnal
Offline Send Email 		Mar 17, 2004
8:57 am

... I have climbed short stretches with >20% which were no problem because of my momentum at the bottom. I also have done reputedly 17-19% stretches (Khutaï,...
Francois Siohan
francois_siohan
Offline Send Email 		Mar 17, 2004
9:29 am

... Hmmm.........I rode Fargo Street in practice today (just to see if I could still do it - I've not been on my bike much of late. I could definitely stand...
Dave Wyman
icyclist
Offline Send Email 		Mar 19, 2004
6:28 am

... To make what i means more precise: on a dirt road at 30%, with a MTB and with a very low gear, the grip of the back wheeel on the road is marginal. ...
Francois Siohan
francois_siohan
Offline Send Email 		Mar 19, 2004
7:54 am

... grip of the ... Hi Francois Rosedale Chimney in North Yorkshire has a slope of 1 in 3 (33%) for a road distance of 600metres -> 600metres(yards) which I...
mjbflr
Offline Send Email 		Mar 19, 2004
9:59 am

... it should be quite easy to verify an altitude difference of 600/3 = 200 meters, map, altimeter.... In an all-out effort, 69 kg Boardman in top form could...
Francois Siohan
francois_siohan
Offline Send Email 		Mar 19, 2004
11:04 am

... Yes Boardman's time was 5m23s against Curran's 5m22.8s (42 / 24) with Marchant 3rd at 5m31.2 (on 42 / 22). Boardan was around 19 yr old then in 2 years...
mjbflr
Offline Send Email 		Mar 19, 2004
12:36 pm
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