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  • Climbing – what's your poison?
  • vinnyeh
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    Big up's, then big down's? Or rolling hills? Lots of short climbs and shorter downs.

    I'm hating the relative flatness of the south at the moment.

    Smee
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    Huge ups, then stay high, then long downs.

    Frizzer
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    Short, sharp ups followed by long zig-zaggy singletrack downs do it for me

    jedi
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    i dont mind. all hill are good up or down

    hilldodger
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    ups are just downs waiting to happen 🙂

    personally I prefer lots of little ups'n'downs, the twistier the better – as log-in name might suggest I don't enjoy the long granny-ring slogs…..

    Kato
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    +1 Goan

    TheSwede
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    F6a+ at the moment 😉

    vinnyeh
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    F6a+ at the moment

    Could have sworn I'd stuck this in the bike forum…

    TandemJeremy
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    Got to agree with Goan. Ideally a thousand or two feet in a mile or two – half an hours slog to the top then miles of downhill. I hate seeing all the energy I put into going uphill ending up in hot brakes

    stevenmenmuir
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    Bring it all on. Long swoopy downhills or short steep arse on the back wheel stuff, all good. Probably prefer the challenge of short steep techy climbs.

    TheSwede
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    vinnyeh – Member

    F6a+ at the moment

    Could have sworn I'd stuck this in the bike forum…
    Posted 2 minutes ago # Report-Post

    Thought you had made a mistake 😉

    beefy
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    Yep, climb then stay up for a long time, then super steep downhill that lasts forever. Ie Helvellyn!

    metalheart
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    F6a+

    everybody knows sport climbing is neither… 😀

    PJM1974
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    My poison? Climbing is like drinking tequila; I want to get it over with as quickly as possible and hope the bitter taste passes in time for me to continue to enjoy myself.

    Scienceofficer
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    as long as there's technical interest I don't mind.

    grahamt1980
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    HVS-E1 although I'm crap at the moment. Sport climbing just isn't right

    finbar
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    E1, but only seconding!

    Junkyard
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    Depends how many hours i have been riding but prefer ridable climbs up say Howgills Calf to stupid steep / hike a bike. Rocky and /or steep descents- walna scar / rangers path or long and fast.

    samuri
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    Anything is good but I must admit I'm really enjoying big massive **** off hills that I can see disappearing into the clouds at the moment. The angle is important. There's a type of hill that I can stand up on the pedals and climb up for 8 continuous hours, and it's great! 1 degree more or less though and it screws me up.

    GW
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    walk, chairlift, cattle truck or van & steep technical descents

    B.A.Nana
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    AD+ on the Cresta Rey, Dufourspitze was my last great problem/poison, best route I've done to date. Technically easy, but a fantastic route and vista.

    Sandwich
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    Scottish Grade III for preference.

    fotheringtonthomas
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    make it hard but not steep

    RepackRider
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    This is the ride I took yesterday. Two of the best downhills in our area on the same ride. But of course you also have to climb them.

    bigbloke
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    Where i live its lots of little short ups and downs, which seem to destroy me, i actually prefer a longer steady climb at least you can get into a rythm then and usually its rewarded at the top.

    stevenmenmuir
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    Rosset Ghyll in the Lakes was good, neraly an hour of hike a bike and then 1.5 km of descent in 15 mins, very many big rocks, weight right back all the way and a few trackstand/hoppy moments. Then a pint in the Old Dungeon.

    chris_mbuk
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    big climbs and sweet long decents 🙂 remember if you want to have fun going down theres always going to be a really long tiring climb lol

    noteeth
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    Anything where you have to employ good body english and lots of swearing… on tricksy woodland singletrack that you only ever clear 50% of the time.

    That – and big panoramic hillclimbs (obviously).

    GaryLake
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    CwmCarn and Whites, bit of tech to keep you distracted and entertained. I am a fan of getting up high, staying high and then a nice big down.

    OldGitSurrey
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    Up with a tearoom at the top followed by down and a toilet at the bottom! :mrgreen:

    GaryLake
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    Rosset Ghyll in the Lakes was good, neraly an hour of hike a bike and then 1.5 km of descent in 15 mins, very many big rocks, weight right back all the way and a few trackstand/hoppy moments. Then a pint in the Old Dungeon.

    Rarely a descent feels worth it if it needs a hike a bike, esp for an hour. I'd prob so snowdon once for the novelty but otherwise I'd rather ride up something. 😕

    westkipper
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    The best climbs are ones where there is a lot of variety in the ascent- steep woody, rooty sections, steeper bits that take concentration to keep traction,steeptastic heathery singletrack followed by maximum steepitude scree sections with stunning views.
    The worst ones are the boring monotonous gentle gradients that just destroy your soul as you grind into a headwind for mile upon mile on some 5% fireroad.

    brakeswithface
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    Sport climbing is often maligned by those too weak to do it properly 😈

    DezB
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    Anything but a road climb.

    RoterStern
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    I like all kinds of climbing. The mountains I usually hit have an elevation of around 900m so there is usually around at least 50 minutes of relentless anti-gravity work. The toughest climb I have ever done has to be this year in the Italian Alps at the Garda Lake. Granny ring grinding from near Arco at the start on a loose rocky track that ended 1600m higher. Loved every minute of it! 😈

    ianv
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    "Sport climbing is often maligned by those too weak to do it properly"

    Too True!!

    cheers_drive
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    I'd rather have a long middle ring singletrack climb than a short steep fireroad granny climb.
    I'm not a great climber but singletrack engages the brain and distracts from the pain. Once I start running out of gears unless its really short I lose my drive and just bimble to the top.
    There is a perfect gradient that provides enough resistance to attack but not so much that you can't afford a missed pedal stroke.

    dirtbiker100
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    Climbing – I like cwmcarn climb. nice and testing and a decent descent at the end. same with innerleithen. Big up and then big down. A few minor leg recoveries on the climb.
    Decending – HSD at gawton is pretty damn fun, same with brechfa red. Neither are rough enough though.

    long technical up, singletrack on a very mild descent then a real mixed bag on a gradient that doesn't heat the brakes up too much. its just a waste then.

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