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Where do you call home?/ What’s your local route/hill climb?

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  • November 7, 2017 at 6:39 pm #27827
    Canyon48

    I’ll start off!

    Born in Bristol, grew up in a little village about a 15-minute cycle from Cheddar Gorge, fled to university in Bristol before moving back to the countryside in a village between Bristol and Cheddar.

    Funnily enough, this means I’ve never lived more than 40 minutes away from where I was born…

    Fortunately for me, this means my local hill climb is and always has been Cheddar Gorge (other than for a couple years at uni).

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  • November 7, 2017 at 9:28 pm #905887
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    don simon fbpe

    Chester is current reside,

    Chester is current reside, but I’ve spent time in La Sierra Madrileña where there are  12 climbs of note. Choice of local climb for a quick blast is out to Hope Mountain, get in a few laps for the 1.000m then home. Horseshoe pass is not too far if I have time and want to put the kms in. World’s End is a nice addition to the Horseshoe. All doable from the doorstep. The climbs around the Ceiriog Valley are worth a shout too.

    November 7, 2017 at 8:47 pm #905885
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    kil0ran

    New Forest, but originally

    New Forest, but originally from Southampton. Where I grew up there were two river valleys within a mile so (for the south of england) two steep climbs to go anywhere. One of them resulted in epic road rash when I bailed due to my Grifter front wheel working loose. Genuinely epic bruising and grazing, we’re talking pro level scrapes down the hole of my left side, and a haematoma on my hip from the bar end digging in to my thigh.

    Now live near Blissford Hill which has a very short 25% section. Also have Piper’s Wait which is also short but with increasing gradient, nasty surface, and a banked hairpin at the top. Offroad there are good gravel climbs around too. Head further west and its not far to Shaftesbury with Zig Zag Hill (more hairpins!) and of course Golden Hill from the Hovis ad.

    November 7, 2017 at 7:42 pm #905883
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    davel

    I’m in Cheshire, so not
    I’m in Cheshire, so not spoilt for choice with hills. I have a few local ones that are OK for repeats, but the closest one of any note (‘Frodsham Hill’ in Simon Warren’s Climbs of NW England) is about 10 miles away.

    Further afield, I can touch the Peaks within a 100km round trip, or N Wales within 100miles, so that puts 2 of my favourite climbs within riding distance: Cat & Fiddle and Horseshoe Pass.

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