Hills

[unknown]

I love hills. All that effort is worth it when you're bombing down the other side!

[vernon]

I love hills. All that effort is worth it when you're bombing down the other side!

it doesn't always work out that way. After a gruelling and protracted climb from Machynlleth to Llanidloes I was so tired I couldn't enjoy the descent because I didn't have enough energy to pedal up the upward undulations on the descent.

[Beakyboy]

I sometimes find that its almost as knackering coming down as it is going up as I try to maintain a high cadence to get the fastest speed.

[Dee Jay]

I am growing to enjoy the challenges of the hills of Devon, and although I will admit to being a speed fiend, I am sometimes gripped by terror as I hurtle down thinking .... what if ....?

[unknown]

Yeah, since I got knocked off last week I am the most paranoid cyclist ever. I think I may have to abandon the roads and start mountain biking and using the velodrome.

[banger]

pedal up the upward undulations on the descent

You are either going up hill or down hill????????????

[EdinburghFixed]

a firm in Japan and one in Italy have now invented a device that allows you to have more than one gear

Maybe. I run Dura Ace and the total cost of the whole drivetrain is under £65 (and it's a joy to ride).

I just priced up the matching 'geared' drivechain and it comes to over £400 (not including the STI shifters which go for about £280 alone!)

I think I will just attack the hills, thanks!

(PS before anyone takes me to task, I know that I don't need DA to ride to work. But I enjoy it and it didn't cost much!)

[FatBat]

There's a nice little tool in Google Maps* that plots a gradient profile for a chosen route. On my five-mile commute, it reckons I gain a total of about 1 metre, so I have don't know what yer on aboot.

*It is called "Route Profiler".

[jonbott]

its all down hill to my workplace








then all uphill home

[byegad]

its all down hill to my workplace








then all uphill home

Shouldn't that read;
'It's all downhill at my place of work?'

[jonbott]

its all down hill to my workplace








then all uphill home

Shouldn't that read;
'It's all downhill at my place of work?'

you`ve been there then!

[drossall]

The trouble with not having hills is that you're exposed to the wind.

With hills, you're sheltered from an unfriendly wind on the ups, and it doesn't matter on the downs. A friendly wind helps on the ups and (for that matter) the downs.

Riding 50 miles on the flat into a wind is soul-destroying.

Which is why the popular cycling areas have hills.

[squeaker]

There's a nice little tool in Google Maps* that plots a gradient profile for a chosen route. On my five-mile commute, it reckons I gain a total of about 1 metre, so I have don't know what yer on aboot.

*It is called "Route Profiler".

Where (in Google Maps), please?

[Gisen]

There's a nice little tool in Google Maps* that plots a gradient profile for a chosen route. On my five-mile commute, it reckons I gain a total of about 1 metre, so I have don't know what yer on aboot.

*It is called "Route Profiler".

Where (in Google Maps), please?

I looked for it too; doesn't seem to be a standard option.

But here is a link to it: http://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html

[jonbott]

There's a nice little tool in Google Maps* that plots a gradient profile for a chosen route. On my five-mile commute, it reckons I gain a total of about 1 metre, so I have don't know what yer on aboot.

*It is called "Route Profiler".

Where (in Google Maps), please?

I looked for it too; doesn't seem to be a standard option.

But here is a link to it: http://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html

thats cool