Britains hardest FG city?

Sion Hill...? Bathwick Hill is the main one up to the Uni from town no?

I think your right but Sion hill is the real steep bit at the top of the street that takes you up and into the uni.

It's literally the worst, managed it just on 48x17 but was over taken by a pedestrian walking up it. Going down it is a good laugh but say good by to your tyre!

I went down it once, and will not be doing so again. Almost murdered a decent band, too http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Driver-Baroness-tour-bus-charged-crash-near/story-18068994-detail/story.html#axzz2eciMcjOg

Newport in S Wales is pretty hilly, and i'm happy to assume the worst about the denizens although i've only been there once and spent the whole time at a house party. Is it a city?

It has a 'castle' (a ruin full of beer cans).

Nottingham is messed up

gotta be Chipping Norton, either that or Leighton Buzzard

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Chipping Norton is not a city. Friend, you're opening the floodgates / if parishes do count try Gidleigh Parish, Devon eh.

Bangor & durham

Calcutta

^GB in the good old days of the Empire

Gidleigh.

I've ridden there (well Chagford)... but not fixed. I used all the gears.

manchester for sure

I reckon Milton Keynes would be a shitty place to be a HHSB rider. You gonna get run over quick there on the millions of 60 mph roads. Or ride the cycle network and feel like you're totally alone til you get jumped by some 13yr olds on their estate.

It's a post apocalyptic Fahrenheit 451 world. And no-one walks or cycles anywhere.

Milton Keynes redways are OK if you know where you're going - but too often they are full of glass, loose dogs being walked, and anti-social teenagers

the grid roads? horrible - prepare your will

Another vote for MK from me. The last 5 miles of my commute to work consists of either;

• 60mph dual carridge ways with drivers who seem to have never witnessed a cyclist on the road before, drinking coffee/smoking and reading the paper whilst their kids are doing the same in the back. And the only way so safely negotiate one of the millions of roundabouts seems to be hiding in the shadow of a slow moving bus or lorry, and hoping it doesnt get hit on the other side by a 60mph zafira shaped kamakazi school run fighter. Its bad enough driving round here.

• The redways are next to useless, In some areas its probably quicker to walk. If you're not exactly sure where you are going some of them lead to dead ends, half finished housing estates and in one case I ended at a surprise set of stairs, luckily due to the factors Eightball mentioned I wasn't going at any real speed and managed to stop in time.

I've ridden there (well Chagford)... but not fixed. I used all the gears.

Ha! Gidleigh's the biggest parish in GB, probably smallest village what took you to Chagford ay?

Another vote for MK from me. The last 5 miles of my commute to work consists of either;

[*]60mph dual carridge ways with drivers who seem to have never witnessed a cyclist on the road before, drinking coffee/smoking and reading the paper whilst their kids are doing the same in the back. And the only way so safely negotiate one of the millions of roundabouts seems to be hiding in the shadow of a slow moving bus or lorry, and hoping it doesnt get hit on the other side by a 60mph zafira shaped kamakazi school run fighter. Its bad enough driving round here.

[*] The redways are next to useless, In some areas its probably quicker to walk. If you're not exactly sure where you are going some of them lead to dead ends, half finished housing estates and in one case I ended at a surprise set of stairs, luckily due to the factors Eightball mentioned I wasn't going at any real speed and managed to stop in time.

The Pyramid is the brain of Milton Keynes it controls the drones, dispersing a frequency which attacks the back of the eyes and foils momentum:The Brain Grater.

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Felixstone, dead shitty town, with costal winds and all you have to look forward to is a massive climb into Dover..

Bridgwater.... for being a town that shouldn't exsist.. famous for being where cellophane was made, but now just boring...

Felixstone, dead shitty town, with costal winds and all you have to look forward to is a massive climb into Dover..

Bridgwater.... for being a town that shouldn't exsist.. famous for being where cellophane was made, but now just boring...

You mean Folkestone, Felixstow is a hell of a long way from Dover, they're all shit

Bridgwater, the town that smelt worse after the cellophane factory closed

Sion Hill...? Bathwick Hill is the main one up to the Uni from town no?

Bath's actually pretty good to ride around. You can always beat the traffic into town and there are plenty of options for hill reps without going too far from your door. I used to do North Rd, Bathwick Hill, Ralph Allen Drive, and Widcombe Hill in less than 20 miles door to door.

Sion hill was the art college that went years ago flogged to developers.
Uni Hill is Bathwick
Widcombe and Brassknocker were the toughest on fixeh
if you're brklz the only way down is North Road.

We used to do the 7hells including brassnocker, landsdown and that one up thru bear flat (although admittedly that was with gears). Happy days. I used to commute Bathwick-Brassknocker-Winsley hill every day back in the 90's - Happy days

That's probably it, massive geography fail, I obviously didn't even hang around long enough to get the name right!

Sion hill was the art college that went years ago flogged to developers.
Uni Hill is Bathwick
Widcombe and Brassknocker were the toughest on fixeh
if you're brklz the only way down is North Road.

We used to do the 7hells including brassnocker, landsdown and that one up thru bear flat (although admittedly that was with gears). Happy days. I used to commute Bathwick-Brassknocker-Winsley hill every day back in the 90's - Happy days

Widcombe would be a nightmare!

From town up the wellsways, or up Entry Hill if you're feeling evil, is an excellent bit of climbing. Actually long enough to get a bit of rhythm going, rather than the Surrey bullshit I have to put up with now :(

I wish there were places like Amsterdam here *rolls eyes to the heavens

... and I means in every sense! ;-/

Surrey bullshit I have to put up with now :(

Same story here - I do Crimp or Priests Hill (Old Windsor) on my way home, and if I'm lucky I get out as far as Box Hill or Henley on the weekend