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Is there a hill climbs thread?

If not - is anyone else here doing the Porlock Toll road HC this weekend?
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Is there a hill climbs thread?

Yes, and this is it. Hill climbs are just TTs for people so emaciated from their lack of pie consumption that they can't manage longer distances.

Hillclimbs are for roadies to get a lever playing field against track riders with epic thighs.

Yes, and this is it. Hill climbs are just TTs for people so emaciated from their lack of pie consumption that they can't manage longer distances.

Oi, I resemble that remark.

Hill climbs are just TTs for people so emaciated from their lack of pie consumption that they can't manage longer distances.

Pettinger

^And Tadros, rode with him last week and I swear all you can see is his shoes.... Then he goes and does a 50 min '25' to add injury to insult.

Pettinger

He was exactly the counter-argument I thought of when I wrote that.

Pettinger

Unsurprisingly he won the Porlock hc today. He came past me about 3/4 of the way up having started 3min behind me...

I managed 24th out of 80 or so starters which I am reasonably happy with given the strength of the field , although I need to work on my pacing, as I went off too hard...

An amazing event - closed road and really well organised.

Next up in a couple of weeks is our (Bristol South) hc at Burrington.
If anyone has done the Exmouth exodus, it's the first of the 3 big climbs (about 2miles). A classic event :-)

I felt pretty grim on Leith on Saturday, he smashed it up there as well.

The monster.

Gosh, it's that time of year again - did my last proper TT of the year this morning (1:5:52 with the Wseterley CC on HCC001), and our hill climb is next Sunday. Missed my target of double the winning time by just 15s last year, but this year I have a new secret weapon - a dérailleur!

Ha!

I felt pretty grim on Leith on Saturday, he smashed it up there as well.

The monster.

He put nearly 17 seconds in to Pete Tadros over a sub four minute course and broke his course record again.

Which is funny as I went backwards and lost nearly 17 seconds on last year's time.

And swore really loudly when I realised that.

(sorry)

Hillclimbs are for roadies to get a lever playing field against track riders with epic thighs.

I wish they'd show up for my club one then. Lazy skinny feckers.

Hillclimbs are for roadies to get a lever playing field against track riders with epic thighs.

I wish they'd show up for my club one then. Lazy skinny feckers.

They have pretty good levers, though.

Medium gear TTing. Would I be right in thinking that the closest gear to 72" is 49x18?

49/18 can be over 72" if you don't have super skinny tyres. It works with some 700x20C clinchers and 18mm tubulars, but it will almost certainly be over with 700x23C or 22mm tubs.

upsidedown & I both settled on 48/18 and 700x25s last time out, that came out at about 18'8" rollout, compared with the 18'10.2" between the marks which will be used at the gear check on any proper MG event.

46/17 splits the difference between 49/18 and 48/18 if you're really desperate for those last couple of inches - IIRC, I came in just under the wire on 46/17 and 700x23 last year.

axpayne uses 43/16 and 22mm tubulars, he's definitely legal on that

Measure properly at home before turning up to ride if you're really tight, the last thing you want is a disqualification before you even start!

axpayne uses 43/16 and 22mm tubulars, he's definitely legal on that!

Is that the guy who won the MDCC MG championship this year? I want to beat him next year, I was only 30 odd seconds slower than him on drop bars, might have to practice 110rpm+ in a tuck.

Is that the guy who won the MDCC MG championship this year?

This year, last year, every fucking year.

Yeah, it'll be on 22mm tubs. Thanks for the info!

Wondered why I haven't heard from Tadders! In all fairness, I think he's twice the age of Pettinger and he's more suited to long climbs, he's done 45 mins up Alpe d'Huez....

Not twice the age. Tejvan (37) was (just) an OUCC contemporary of my little brother, and Tadros is a mere stripling by VTTA standards at 43, so only 6 years between them.

Jesus. Tejvan's younger than me?
packs it all in