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What’s your favourite UK sportive?

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  • November 25, 2008 at 11:08 am #11519
    cactuscat

    just looking on MCC and there’s much talk of exotic foreign sportives, but what’s your fave UK ride? doesn’t have to be a ‘proper’ sportive, well mine isn’t anyway: http://www.exmouthexodus.co.uk

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  • November 27, 2008 at 5:19 pm #626117
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    ourmaninthenorth

    That first 25% climb
    That first 25% climb is approached not with a run up, but around a hairpin bend, meaning that it’s a slow grind up to the first turn, and then on towards the top.

    The others were in and out of Fishguard. Sooo steep.

    November 27, 2008 at 12:24 pm #626115
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    Tony Farrelly

    A couple of mates of mine did

    A couple of mates of mine did the Pembrokshire and the Dragon and reckoned the former was really hard not that the Dragon wasn’t – one of them had some pics of people pushing up the first of the reallly steep hills – 25 per cent and it didn’t look short either. There were also some vid on Cyclosport I think – some poor fella who was well over-geared toppling off as he lost momentum on one of the steeper climbs.

    November 27, 2008 at 12:10 pm #626113
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    ourmaninthenorth

    The hardest
    The hardest I have done is the Tour of Pembrokeshire this year. Three 25% climbs in the first 35 miles had me wondering if I could actually finish it.

    And the sun shone all day, too, which kinda made it for me.

    I’d recommend it to anyone.

    Tom

    November 25, 2008 at 1:39 pm #626111
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    thebikeboy

    Haven’t done that many, but I
    Haven’t done that many, but I did like the Dragon that was … hard. And I’ve heard tell of some pretty good smaller Welsh ones too – The Tour of Pembroke?
    Oh, and I’d also like to do the Etape Caledonia, a few mates did that and while they said it wasn’t especially hard they reckoned it was a great ride and doing it on closed roads made it all the more special.

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