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If you get it wrong on a set of concrete or granite steps, you can seriously get mash-up an ting*. And considering the homicidal nature of some drivers here, body armour's not such a bad idea.
Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough... 😉
*For the knob who posted the 'Elfin= Jafaican' tag.
There's loads of good stairs in Newcastle, theere's some that go from behind the Bridge Hotel down to the Quayside are good. Dog Leap ones aren't to bad if you catch them on a dry day.
Oh and there's the Wooden Escalator in the Tyne Tunnel 🙂
No, body armour is never required for urban riding. It looks stupid and isnt cool.
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TBH I never see anyone round here dressed like that (I live near CW). The odd full-facer, but never all that armour.
Like I said, CAHAGIYTYHE! I'm sure I can find a few lads who can show you some proper 'gnarly' stuff in town!
That set of steps by the side of the bridge in Nukeastle look a challenge....
I do this on my commute home sometimes.
I'm afraid this is about as gnarly as I get.
Nearly forgot about these bad boys 🙂
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Kaesae, I have always wanted to do the ones on arthurs seat, presume you are meaning from the top, walked up so many times and always nattered away to my dad about how good it would be, and what sort of line I would through various sections. Was never sure if it was a good idea or not though 😀 Might have to have a go now then 😛
As mentioned there are some good ones on the WOL - especially in Colinton Dell. I've gone down most of them with a grin on my face - but there's one in particular that I'm determined to climb - the one nearest the 'monks hut / beehive thingy'. I can get about 3/4 ways up. Get a teeny bit better each time.
The ones down from Crookes in Sheffield - there are a few, but heading from Crookes Valley Road down side of the old church were always a giggle... 🙂
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Anyone ever been to East Portlemouth? The steps down to the bottom road from the car park are a laugh to ride down. Over 100 steps, and it's a bridleway 😀
Sheffield, now I think about it, is full of steps n steeps:
You can also drop into the station in no-brakee stylee, just check for trams down this hill from Park Hill
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Edit: City centre has some sport to be had:
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And Rivelin has some fun hidden all over:
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Do you brake at all, or just let the bike roll and hang on?
Great post - I love a bit of stair riding. I genuinely think it prepares you for rocky/steep riding on proper mountain trails (alas little of which there are in city centres!)
Also thanks AJF for the leeds uni post - recognise most of the locations in that video.
Oh yeaha and this is when Danny MAc was riding with us at the uni of Leeds.
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Or was it my mate Jules? 🙂
Also found a FANTASTIC multiple slight of steps round gable hill / bramley last night. Check (some of) it on streetmap:
probably 3x what you can see there in total. Very steep pitches. My first time riding them so I was taking it easy, but you could launch off a lot of them 🙂 🙂 🙂
ace!
There are a set of steps in my house, but SWMBO has put a stop to it after I muddied the carpet and dented the radiator at the bottom...
Although I also remember a set in one of mrs davenports rentals near the tal y bont hotel. I rode those whilst a little giddy having had a few sherberts at the tal y bont. Not much damage at all considering how tight the turn is on each landing 🙂
We really need some helmet cam footage with laughter and pedestrians diving for cover 😀
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Anyone ever been to East Portlemouth? The steps down to the bottom road from the car park are a laugh to ride down. Over 100 steps, and it's a bridleway
Hell yes.....!
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Theatre Royal fire escape, Hobart.
stevemtb - glad i'm not the only one who wonders about stairs in work... one day...
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Good downhill from these
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Straght out of the hotel doors
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Great set of steps in Salisbury from bishops down on to balmoral road used to do them on my Raleigh burner and rattle my teeth out!
@kit I've done those stairs a few times, you simply have to be 100% commited when you go for it.
That said haven't done them in a while, have you tried the ones at the royal observatory?
kaesae I have a mate who regularly rides from the summit of Arthurs Seat. You might bump into a guy on an Evil Sovereign - he's a hooligan.
TJ - probably as strange as taking a tandem over those steps I took a fully (and I mean really, fully) laden trailer with all the camping gear over them. Trailer was new and I wanted to see what it was like to ride with it ahead of a camping trip so I tested it (and me) with a ride around Arthurs Seat and got a bit carried away off down to Porty. Trailer's not good on steps.
Only steps I ever ride are the ones cutting through the parliament - they are very easy.
The stairs down from the Scotsman to near waverley were pretty good in a round and round making a hell of a noise in a confined space sort of way..... The stench of p*ss on each level was grim. There closed for a referb, hope they dont ruin them....
I don't like riding down stairs, it's like going down rock gardens but a bit more consistent! Hate the feeling that you're gonna get chucked over the bars each time your front wheel goes down one.
For urban spots, it looks hard to beat Dusseldorf University. Not my pic but you get the idea!
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I like a nice flight of steps to check I'm not running too much rebound damping...
I like to up the stoke factor in several dimensions
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[i]Not quite urban and not far from Junkyard's offering[/i]
Hmm, not seen them before, where are they?
I walked down those in Newcastle once, I thought they'd be a good challenge, they get a bit tight in the middle, the slimyness of the worn steps looked entertaining
There are a fair few all over durham
From the park behind the station (littered with them) you can drop through the station and down to the river on fairly testing steps. Great fun
Another nice Edinburgh one for getting a crowd is the Waverley centre roof-to-flower-bed gap. You need to clamber up onto one of the flat roofs and get enough speed to clear the pavement and the edge of the raised flowerbed, before landing in the geraniums.
Got any pics captainflashheart?
Well I've been out on my bike a few times now, spent a day at the water of leith, loads of good sets of stairs including some mentioned earlier in this thread.
Out again today, however I'm going over to my local bing to practice cornering, next time I get a chance I'll get some photo's and footage of some of my favourite steps and other stuff.
😀