Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
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Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby Rhubarb » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:40 pm
So I went looking for some alternate rides to do next week in the mornings (in lieu of commuting). From Brookfield there are a number of roads that go out and up into the hills which look good. After mapping them out on ridewithgps.com, most of them seem quite good with 5 to 9% gradients and about 200m elevation, but Boscombe road is 18.2% and Haven Road is 36.9% !!!!
Does anyone have a local climp steeper than 36.9% ???
PS I only have a 39/25 lowest gear so no going to attempt Haven Rd.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby wqlava1 » Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:44 pm
I guess you are in Brisbane. In the Melbourne area, I've not come across much more challenging than Pigeonbank Lane, North Warrandyte, a couple of km up round the corner from my place. If you want to look at it on mapmyride, bikely or bikeroutetoaster and get a profile, it's the section starting at the little court off the side close to the Yarra, and heading up towards Warrandyte-Kangaroo Ground Rd. It's continuously steep for 2-300 metres, enough that even my diesel Landcruiser will only do it in first. My problem on it (with a compact crankset and touring cassette) is that my thighs/knees bump on the handlebars when I'm trying to pedal.Rhubarb wrote:
Does anyone have a local climp steeper than 36.9% ???
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby trailgumby » Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:08 pm
Oh, stop being a wussburger! What's a heart attack matter between friends?Rhubarb wrote:PS I only have a 39/25 lowest gear so no going to attempt Haven Rd.
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Postby Warnesy » Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:35 pm
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Postby Ross » Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:47 pm
I'm in Canaberra, curious to know which road, Warnesy?Warnesy wrote:I want to work out the gradient of a road near me, its short but damn steep. Is there any way without a fancy GPS unit
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby CommuRider » Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:08 pm
Trigonometry?Warnesy wrote:I want to work out the gradient of a road near me, its short but damn steep. Is there any way without a fancy GPS unit
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby Electric Blue » Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:16 pm
I have very fond memories of riding that hill as part of my daily rides....wqlava1 wrote:I guess you are in Brisbane. In the Melbourne area, I've not come across much more challenging than Pigenbank Lane, North Warrandyte, a couple of km up round the corner from my place. If you want to look at it on mapmyride, bikely or bikeroutetoaster and geta profile, it's the section starting at the little court off the side close to the Yarra, and heading up towards Warrandyte-Kangaroo Ground Rd. It's continuously steep for 2-300 metres, enough that even my diesel landcruiser will only do it in first. My problem on it (0with a compact crankset and touring cassette) is that my thighs/knees bump on the handlebars when I'm trying to pedal.Rhubarb wrote:
Does anyone have a local climp steeper than 36.9% ???
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby TheShadow » Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:18 pm
Anything over 15% I would avoid unless on a mtb with granny gears. Are they even surfaced?Rhubarb wrote:As a result of the floods, the office has been closed since Tuesday, and I will probably be asked to work from home for another week at least, so no commuting. Also the main bike track along the Western Freeway was impassable 2 days ago inbound at Indooroopilly and outbound at Jindalee. These may be open now but I'm avoiding them due to diseased mossies etc, so my usual rides are all out at the moment.
So I went looking for some alternate rides to do next week in the mornings (in lieu of commuting). From Brookfield there are a number of roads that go out and up into the hills which look good. After mapping them out on ridewithgps.com, most of them seem quite good with 5 to 9% gradients and about 200m elevation, but Boscombe road is 18.2% and Haven Road is 36.9% !!!!
Does anyone have a local climp steeper than 36.9% ???
PS I only have a 39/25 lowest gear so no going to attempt Haven Rd.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby number21 » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:23 pm
You'll never know if you never go, right?
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby ironhanglider » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:37 pm
There is a road on a detour between Baccus Marsh and Geelong (used for the Hell of the West) that was unpaved for decades and then was eventually done by hand and shovel. This is really nasty but can be climbed with a 39T chainring if you have a big enough cog on the back.
I believe that Baldwin St in Dunedin is in the low 20s and that is by reputation, the steepest street in the world.
You don't have to believe me but I have climbed that hill using the lowest gear of an MTB. (The only photo I have is the view from the top rather than of me climbing it so it won't count as proof).
There are lots of unpaved roads around that would reduce me to a 24" gear.
Cheers,
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Postby number21 » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:40 pm
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby wqlava1 » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:19 pm
One other noteworthy hill that I enjoy and do regularly when we stay at Apollo Bay is the 600 or 650-odd metres in 9.5km without any flat or downhill going up towards Forrest from Skenes Creek, and one that I dislike for some reason in the same area is the one coming from Lavers Hill towards Apollo Bay, going up quite steeply for 2-3km just before the Cape Otway turnoff.
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Postby TheShadow » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:33 pm
That reminds me of an uncle and aunt who live at Buderim - their street must be over 15%, I think. But that's a suburban back street. There would be some similarly steep suburban streets here also, close to Brisbane CBD, around Toowong and Bardon etc. They are very short sections of road, though.number21 wrote:I stayed at Maroochydore over xmas last year and found some steep suckers around Buderim. Going off the road signs there was a variety of 12-15% climbs about, although curiousity got the better of me the day we were scheduled to leave for home when I just had to detour down a road marked as 20% 0.6km. I don't own a gps so not sure of gradients I've been up and down on so I thought if I do 20% then that should be a record for me. Thankfully it had a slightly less steep section 3/4 up.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby nickj_d » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:44 pm
+1 Can we get a verification on that. 36% just sounds way too much.ironhanglider wrote: I believe that this calculation is suspect.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby ZepinAtor » Sun Jan 16, 2011 11:19 pm
You can see in the GPS info on my first attempt (going down) I only hit 99.7km/hr. Next time I tucked just a tiny bit & hit 104km/hr
Found the photo looking from the bottom up.
Profile of the days ride.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby nickj_d » Sun Jan 16, 2011 11:40 pm
nickj_d wrote:
36% is just way too much for me.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby Quinns Rocks Roadie » Sun Jan 16, 2011 11:41 pm
Anybody have a GPS profile of that ?.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby zues » Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:39 am
GPS units have a vertical inaccurracy of upto + Or - 30m Thats whyif the steepest st in the world in the world is 35% at its steepest point....how do you have 36.9?.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
Postby sogood » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:54 am
Coordinate: -33.859266, 151.169472
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: Steep hills near your place - Can you top Haven Rd?
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Postby sogood » Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:50 pm
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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