South London hills

I do this sometimes. Suitably horrible. https://www.strava.com/routes/4633116

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That look proper, I aborted a hill climb today after Crystal Palace on account of getting deluged, and then gotten cold.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1010096028

Duplicated and edited this near my home, might give that a good after work, cheer!

No worries, enjoy!

Very useful!

You could add Taymount Rise and Grassmount with almost no extra distance.

Good shout, added.

Cheer, Since moving to Brockley, I realised there's lots of untapped hill that is ripe to explore.

My colleague gonna give me his old wheel with a fixed/fixed hubs to give me two ratios (64GI and 61GI), almost came to a full stop on Fox Hill with 67GI.

Wrong forum to admit this, but I've got gears for this kind of thing.

pleased to see Canonbie Road making an appearance - my favourite SE lungbuster

Strangely, I did a ride on here a number of years ago to highlight and showcase the hills of se London.

I like to think there are three sections of up and down around the anerly ridge.

The bit by canonbie road which has canonbie (both sides), the alpine esque horniman drive, ringmore rise, and the brutish Westwood park. Which I find nastier than either side of canonbie. If you start from standing by one of the lampposts on the left as you go up. Once you ascend you can turn left and hit horniman drive and descend then turn left and do the 18% side of canonbie.

There looks like there are other steeper short, none of them are long , thing on the other side of the road as you come off horniman drive.

You can then ride over to the next section, which should include taymount, Eliot bank, turn left down kirkdale, right onto wells park (I'll wave as you go by) and up.
You're then faced with the option of turning right to go back to Eliot bank and then left and left again to get the full college road experience, or you turn left go the quick way and then rwclimb it. 10 climbs of college road is nearly 1000m up. Gypsy hill is alright but why would you want to go up there?

After that, well it's fox hill and all the roads off the left hand side as you head to Croydon.

There's York hill in West norwood and valleyfield road in streatham.

As a younger man who used to be adequate on hills, I did all of them on 65 or 67.

I did a ride on here a number of years ago to highlight and showcase the hills of se London.

Not forgotten!

:)

Oh yes. You may as well loop up and down anerly by crystal palace road, anerly, and Westwood hill for full fucked kneeses.

Wrong forum to admit this, but I've got gears for this kind of thing.

I switched back and forth between my geared bicycle and fixed, some of the hill I did well on the fixed than on the geared, but get annihilated when it's really steep like Westwood Park Road (near Canonbie).

@Chalfie 64GI might be just right for that, 67/64GI is probably my best bet.

The brutish Westwood park. Which I find nastier than either side of canonbie.

That was brutal, right at the top where it really creep up to what? 18%?

Gypsy hill is alright but why would you want to go up there?

Was thinking that, it's a nice little climb but for some reason it felt a little lacklustre, plus a little too much traffic sometime.

Think it's been mentioned here, but Gellatly road is a nice little kicker, going full blast at the bottom before slowing down at the chicane and a slough to the top of the hill.

Stambounre way I think is kinda overlooked and a nice little minute long climb. Starts mellow, has a gentle left until gradually builds to 14/15% before flattening out.

Right next to fox hill.

I especially like Canonbie approached from Forest Hill Road to make sure you are slightly cooked before you even begin.

Just looked it up, kinda like a slightly bearable Fox Hill from your description.

Westwood is the ramp. There's nothing subtle about it. You get round the corner and it's there in front of you. Straight. Up. And looming over you.its not long but there's nothing subtle about it.

@edscoble

Look on the BCC club forum, there are regular hills rides every week. (Tuesday in winter and Wednesday in summer, to end at Canopy with TL crew)

The classic 'Souths' route is here.

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/13289058

I do it on 72" so you have to attack the hills, not just grind up them.

I have certainly found it to be great interval training

I used to do them on 84" so you have to walk up the hills, not just pedal up them ;)

Yeh that's basically it. And it's slightly more scenic IMO.

That's where the real gains are made

That's awesome! Will see about tomorrow when I get home and check on the BCC forum.