Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Ryanhyltoncummins » Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:38 pm
i didn't think it was any harder than cootha, infact i reckon it was easier just a much longer climb
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:25 pm
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Bah77 » Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:41 pm
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:48 pm
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Angus » Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:30 pm
Both great climbs, but very different IMO. And Glorious from Samford is a different ball game again......
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Ignoto » Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:31 pm
For those who've been doing it recently, has there actually been a noticeable different in motor-traffic after Newmans "bikie laws"?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:58 pm
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby InTheWoods » Wed Nov 20, 2013 3:54 pm
I just noticed this article:Ignoto wrote:The only issue I have with Nebo is there's too many declines on the way up meaning you have inclines on the way down. So turning around at the Cafe and thinking you've done all the hard work is all a lie!
For those who've been doing it recently, has there actually been a noticeable different in motor-traffic after Newmans "bikie laws"?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby winstonw » Wed Nov 20, 2013 9:21 pm
climbs with a bit of intensity:
- repeats of Coot-tha backside, esp upper 2/3
- Clear Mtn (northside)
- Lochinvar Rd heading west
- Mt Glorious frontside
- Mt Glorious backside
- Mayfield Rd (end part of OReilly's Rd)
basically, a climb isn't intense unless you feel relieved when the grade drops to or below 12%.
if you suffer on lower graded climbs, then your bike is over-geared for your fitness level.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby ldrcycles » Wed Nov 20, 2013 9:35 pm
And Bellthorpe is a good addition to that "intense" list, along with (further north) the Obi Obi and any of the Mt Tambourine climbs except the one the Tour de Tambourine goes up, that one's easy.
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Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby singlespeedscott » Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:21 pm
If Mt. Mee rd is to casual for you just turn right and head up Oceanview Rd. Don't let the 4.9% average fool you. The first 1km is an average of 11% and after every short down is another 10% plus pitch. A mongrel of a climb especially after you have a couple 1000m of ascent in your legs.winstonw wrote:IMHO, Mt Mee and Nebo Glorious are highly overrated for intensity.
climbs with a bit of intensity:
- repeats of Coot-tha backside, esp upper 2/3
- Clear Mtn (northside)
- Lochinvar Rd heading west
- Mt Glorious frontside
- Mt Glorious backside
- Mayfield Rd (end part of OReilly's Rd)
basically, a climb isn't intense unless you feel relieved when the grade drops to or below 12%.
if you suffer on lower graded climbs, then your bike is over-geared for your fitness level.
http://www.strava.com/segments/3308913" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby clydesmcdale » Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:13 pm
No mountain goat (AT) 95kg but if I stay at a nice steady cadence I can usually go all day.
Only concern is the braking with the carbons on the long descents. Never had problems on many Coot-thas or Gravatts, but maybe Nebo is a bit hairier?
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:32 pm
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby GeoffInBrisbane » Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:57 pm
Meanwhile, for normal people, there ARE a couple of points where you need to brake pretty heavily, but you should be fine on carbons I reckon.Lukeyboy wrote:Its nebo. I hardly ever use the things. Glorious is the only time where I use them.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Sat Nov 23, 2013 6:49 pm
Where? Where the road splits into two with the divider down the middle as you get closer back to The Gap? Heading to the goat track?.............GeoffInBrisbane wrote:Meanwhile, for normal people, there ARE a couple of points where you need to brake pretty heavily, but you should be fine on carbons I reckon.Lukeyboy wrote:Its nebo. I hardly ever use the things. Glorious is the only time where I use them.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby ldrcycles » Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:35 pm
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Sun Nov 24, 2013 1:31 pm
ldrcycles wrote:Yea the thing is, this is actual footage of lukey descending
Doing 60kph into a 40kph right hander with no hands giving the thumbs up at the speeding sign might not have been the smartest idea
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby singlespeedscott » Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:44 pm
My favorite no brakes descent is coming down Mt Mee towards Dag. It's fun buzzing and passing moto's going downhill.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:13 pm
Oh.... You wanted a video of me not using the brakes??I saw you using the brakes Luke
Sorry, I don't have any Yeah I've done Nebo a couple times in the dark. Always good fun. Especially on the run back down towards The Gap.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby winstonw » Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:14 pm
thanks Scott. yep know it well....used to ride up there on my tourer from Petrie in the 80s.singlespeedscott wrote:If Mt. Mee rd is to casual for you just turn right and head up Oceanview Rd. Don't let the 4.9% average fool you. The first 1km is an average of 11% and after every short down is another 10% plus pitch. A mongrel of a climb especially after you have a couple 1000m of ascent in your legs.
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One of my old high school teachers subdivided part of her farm into Ocean View Estate.
I always 'didn't' look forward to that steep bit.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby GeoffInBrisbane » Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:37 pm
Only 138rpm?Lukeyboy wrote:Oh.... You wanted a video of me not using the brakes??I saw you using the brakes Luke
Sorry, I don't have any Yeah I've done Nebo a couple times in the dark. Always good fun. Especially on the run back down towards The Gap.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:19 pm
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby baghwan » Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:00 am
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby Lukeyboy » Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:46 pm
If you are heading back along the Kedron Brook bikeway I suggest turning off onto Patricks Road and then joining the very start of the bikeway.
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Re: Nebo Glorious - My favourite ride
Postby elantra » Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:34 am
Your route is a loop of course which is fine in theory, but the Mt. Glorious Rd from Samford is incredibly steep and is usually avoided by most people i know.baghwan wrote:Managed to get my Christmas free this year, decided to finally do the the Nebo/Glorious climb, is something like this the typical ride out that way? Anyone else planning some Christmas day rides, roads are usually so quiet its a sin not to go for a ride.
I don't think the road from Samford would be a popular way to ascend and it is not even a popular way to descend because it is so heavy on brakes.
In other words Nebo/Glorious is easier to do as a return trip, up and down on the same road. (not the one to Samford !)
On the return be very careful on the corners where the road is split.
There are a few of these and one of them - (i think it might be the last one on the way back down towards the city) - is sharper than the others and easy to overcook it.
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