RE: [kom_] Mt. Washington Hill Climb - New Hampshire USA
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
house.
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@...
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 ...
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=...
... 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, 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...
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%...
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@...
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)....
... 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...
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... 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 ...
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@...
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 ...
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...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
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 ...
... 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,...
... 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...
... 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. ...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... So, it looks like 1/6 really means > 1/7, ie 14.2% and 1/3 means >1/4, ie >25%. 400 yards = 366 m at >14.2% = 52 m 600 y = 548 m at > 25% =137 m even...
... per hour? ... Hi Francois The current hill-climb champion Jim Henderson climbs steep hills (10% or >) at a 33 metres/minute rate with no following wind and...
... Just correcting my last note, Yes from your calcs it appears that the report I quoted of 400yards of 33% and 600y at 25% for Rosedale significantly...
It was another successful Fargo Street Hill Climb. There was fine turnout of riders and spectators, in part because of television coverage of last year's event...
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