[JLasTSR]

I am sure lots know about this website but I find it useful when planning some of my.longer rides. I admit I like to know how much I am going to suffer.

https://bikeclimbs.com/climb/united-kingdom

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[S.E.]

It’s certainly useful with

It’s certainly useful with these (veloviewer) gradients and stats… I’m not into Strava either, no bike computer, Google maps offer a profile picture and total elevation/descent for personal itineraries, but with much less details, so this comes handy, provided the climb is listed, of course.

Also I didn’t know that I had climbed several 1st category recently, and even HC (beyond categorization) mountain passes! I’m bragging, I’m not into performance, 10 kg bike, in my fifties, I really struggle over a few %, so I was surprised to learn that thanks to this website!

[mdavidford]

I always struggled a bit with

I always struggled a bit with this one.

[andystow]

I definitely walked bits of

I definitely walked bits of this on my LEJoG.

https://bikeclimbs.com/climb/united-kingdom/scotland/aberdeenshire/cock-bridge/lecht-rd-climb

 

[JLasTSR]

That one of yours looks too

That one of yours looks too much for me, this one took me by surprise and it was only a tiny climb on the way to a lunch I had looked at it and thought that’s too short to worry about. However I was wrong the last little bit with my bottom gear was a bit will I, won’t I. I had also given blood two days before which probably didn’t help. 

[mark1a]

Looks like all the data is

Looks like all the data is pulled from Strava, and the visuals are taken from VeloViewer (a great product/service, which in turn also gets its data from Strava).

Here’s one of my local “favourites” ? unfortunately living at sea level in Dorset means it doesn’t matter what direction I ride in, there’s a climb to be had…

 

[JLasTSR]

Never seen veloviewer and
Never seen veloviewer and having just looked at it, I’m struggling it doesn’t have a map for me to see the climbs although it obviously has the data somewhere but I cannot understand how to use it to get to what I want, namely the data on climbs on the route I am plotting sorry.

[davebrads]

It’s just a list of climbs,

It’s just a list of climbs, the top ones all appear to be gravel. Clicking on a climb brings up a link to the Veloviewer page and some stats that appear to have come from the same source. Why do we need it? Just go straight to Veloviewer.

[JLasTSR]

Living in Suffolk anything
Living in Suffolk anything not flat is a serious hill!

A few years ago this site did not appear to have a tie up with Strava, it does seem it is converging more with Strava at the moment. Since I don’t use Strava it is probably more useful for me than for others as it gives me access to climb data that others get though Strava.

[S.E.]

Climbing categories look a

Climbing categories look a bit “inflated”, though, at least for the climbs I know in my area, on the continent…

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