2013-06-15 - Gears for Fears Road Ride Slide to Bristol (100 miles)

Bet it has di2. So flash!

Laner you've barely ridden the Look yet!

You should take the look on this, it's a bit more roadie douche bag...

I remember when you had no money, now you're all "Oh, I've done 400 miles on this bike now I'll just leave it here".

You've changed dude ;)

UPDATED ROUTE:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2362788

Unless anyone travelling from bristol speaks up about coming and says it's easier for them to get to farnborough, we will be getting the train from waterloo to Woking as it's quicker and cheaper

I've also change the route to get ride of the canal path as i don't like that bit, instead it's replaced by a hill :)

im worrying about this now

why worrying?

You now appear to be going up Brassnocker hill at 96m - you may wish to reconsider that... it will be a struggle for anyone on more than ~65gi

haha that brassknocker hill is awful, remember having trouble driving up it once

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in unrelated news, im out, cant get out of the family engagements unfortunately

This hill sounds epic. Keep it in.

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You now appear to be going up Brassnocker hill at 96m - you may wish to reconsider that... it will be a struggle for anyone on more than ~65gi

lucky it's a geared ride then!

Joking aside, do you definitely suggest going round it? i thought it'd be fun, and since after that we'll be on the super flat railway path it would be okay

My longest ride is 85, 100 seemed ok, 115 is seemingly less appealing

Its 22% for a short period around one of the corners and is 0.6 Miles long with >10% av gradient - I reckon that after 96miles quite a few people will struggle to get up it even on gears: http://app.strava.com/segments/623391

It's also often used as a rat-run, so can get pretty busy traffic wise.

Sounds mega.

The ones that cant get up it can just walk up? Tis the way these rides always go

Last one up gets the beers in...

(Checks bank balance)

it's shorter than ditchling, but a bit steeper. I'll leave it in. we'll regroup at the top

Its 22% for a short period around one of the corners and is 0.6 Miles long with >10% av gradient - I reckon that after 96miles quite a few people will struggle to get up it even on gears: http://app.strava.com/segments/623391

It's also often used as a rat-run, so can get pretty busy traffic wise.

Lou Austin managed to get up it at 31mph average. Must be piss easy...

Does .6 miles even qualify as a hill?

^Only a cat 4 for that reason. The dudes on strava are all doing it between 4 and 5 minutes.

Don't worry Rogan, I'm sure you can do it.

Yeah leave it in for sure. Hills ftw.

lucky it's a geared ride then!

Joking aside, do you definitely suggest going round it? i thought it'd be fun, and since after that we'll be on the super flat railway path it would be okay

I reckon keep it in and see how you feel when you reach the bottom.

Its pretty easy to avoid it and you could split to those who want to climb it and those that dont, i think you can ride along the a36 (my parents live on this road) without too much hassle and meet where the route joins the a36 at the bottom of bathwick hill

Cheers Tom, i'll do exactly that.

The ones that cant get up it can just walk up? Tis the way these rides always go

It can be quite busy and the road doesn't lend itself at all to walking a bike up it.

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2. Laner
   
3. Jake
   
4. Indra(depending)
   
5. fussballclub
   
6. Mk1mark
   
7. Sumo
   
8. Eamesy
   
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11. Hairy
    
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Someone seems to have added me back in to the list. I am, however, still out.