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Toys Hill is a bastard - just keeps ramping up, saving the worst for last. I've done it on 60" fixed with drop bars, and about 65" on my fixed mtb with wider bars, but I remember being a newbie and cracking on a 36x19 geared (having been through the bonk about an hour before).
It's one of those climbs where as you approach the final 50m, you get an overwhelming urge to shit yourself - all that forced expiration. Possibly something like giving birth...
Have you done Yorks Hill and White (Titsey) Lane? Seminal climbs in the same area... I'm not suggesting you get an overwhelming urge to splurge in your lycra though as you approach the final 50m :-)