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would you be riding up hill for the most of it?
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Only until you got to the North Pole. Then, if you didn't turn, you'd be heading south. Which, of course, is downhill.
I wouldn't. It would be mostly downhill until I hit the sea.
I wouldn't. It would be mostly downhill until I hit the sea.
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Only until you got to the North Pole. Then, if you didn't turn, you'd be heading south. Which, of course, is downhill.
but the question was only riding North so you'd get to the North pole and then presumably sort of endo hop all around it going nowhere until the next reverse polarity event happens.
Nope. Downhill on the whole from the equator to the north pole, the earth, being as it is. and oblate spheroid.
It'd get harder, cos of the sea and that and the lack of paved roads and the wind and the weather. So perhaps uphill in a metaphorical sense.
But the equator is on the side of the globe so if you start there are ride due north I can't help thinking that is straight up 😳
In the UK technically, yes, it is uphill. Lizard Point you can ride from just about sea level at the slipway but at Dunnet Head the cliffs are around 40-50m. So you would be 40-50m higher than when you started. That's only based on sea level, though.
The answer above about equator to north pole being generally downhill due to the earth being wider in the middle is correct.
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I've been fortunate to have ridden from one end of this united kingdon (South in this instance) until I reached the other end. It felt mostly like up hill*. FACT.
*except the down bits, they felt distinctly less up
I've been fortunate to have ridden from one end of this united kingdon (South in this instance) until I reached the other end.
I have also done this,but I had a mahoosive tailwind every day ,so it felt like downhill most of the way..Fact 🙂
From here it'd be almost all downhill until I get to Cramond, then I'd drown. Though there's a pretty good chance I'd be killed on the bypass riding across it at 10 degrees
cats going up surely, you can see his little paw ready to put on the next step
cat is going down
There is no cat
cat is going down
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The cat is going down.
[i]downy cat[/i]
You would think that Ste being a No 1 vet would know that 😉
The cat has paused, wondering why you're looking at it
The cat is going down....backwards.
Is the cat blue and gold though...
This is a "Deviation from the Geoid" question isn't it.
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Given the colouring over the UK - going North towards the North Pole would mean going from Whitish red to darker red...so Downhill.
Mind there's the sea and stuff....but sea level is even more complicated than Geoids
Down, look at the flashing* on the side of the steps.
*I presume that's the right term even when it's not a roof
Now I look at it again I can clearly see the cat is not going down it is coming down. That is why I can see it's face.