[Closed] Road Route Challenge - Your toughest Local Ride

I've done [url= http://mikeactually.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/darlington-to-swaledale-to-hamsterley.html ]Darlington to Reeth to Tan Hill to Barnard Castle to Hamsterley to Darlington[/url], which is just shy of 100 miles with about 1.5 miles of ascent. On a SS MTB for a bit more interminable spinning fun.

I can't be bothered to edit it down to the distance criteria, but I have at the very least cycled this route. It was 5,614' or 1,711 metres.

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EDIT: Or this one at 7,707' or 2,349 metres...

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This starts and finishes from my door...

166Km long, 3645m of climbing...

https://www.strava.com/routes/2043506

Did this with a mate back in summer solstice 2013, overnight from Aberwris****ch back home

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Original plan was to head from Builth to Painscastle and then up Gospel Pass from Hay but the weather was rather cold and wet and discretion over valour meant not heading up there at 1am but rather coming through the middle.

The nasty lumps are in the Cambrians at the start definitely.

There's some quality looking rides amongst these. Thought there'd be some right bastards in southern scotland but not so far...

[url= http://ridewithgps.com/trips/4323280 ]Rutland Bumps[/url]

Not too bad for an area with no hills, it's well under the 100 and just under 5,000ft

Rutland Bumps

Good effort, I reckon I'd find it much harder work doing that amount of climbing without the satisfaction of having reached the top of something.

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/edit/172064600/

Less than 80 miles and more that 6000ft. Great ride too.

Ohh I'm nicking the Hell of the Worth one and possibly a few others..

I will get a Hampshire on together when I get home..

[url= http://www.strava.com/activities/4737392 ]Dave Lloyd Mega[/url]

and (I think) [url= http://www.strava.com/activities/42778020 ]the original Mega[/url]

One of the toughest days on the bike that I have had,some of those Welsh hills were brutal.

[quote> http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/edit/172064600/

Less than 80 miles and more that 6000ft. Great ride too.

It might just be me but I can't see that one, is it public?

Dave Lloyd Mega

That looks an amazing route! That might go on the todo list for summer.

Lemony

It was ,as it's title suggested 'A Mega Challenge' .
The original start from Ruthin almost immediately went up a stupid steep little road ,that had people falling off if they were over geared.Then some of the steep valley roads had the bonus of being covered in lichen 😯
It looked like they never saw the sun,so even if you had proper gears you could still get a bit of wheel spin.Still,what doesn't kill you an all that 🙂

Then some of the steep valley roads had the bonus of being covered in lichen
It looked like they never saw the sun,so even if you had proper gears you could still get a bit of wheel spin.Still,what doesn't kill you an all that

Ahhh... like riding in nidderdale. I wheelspan the whole way up two stoops once.

Ransos, the Le Terrier looks a bit of a beast. That climb from Slaidburn towards Bentham is an amazing stretch of road. Living in Clitheroe i have ridden most of this route, but never in chunks of more than 50 miles.

I suppose it is worth mentioning that these are Brad's favourite training rides, must get bonus points for that 🙂

There's a bit of an incline on the cycle path up through Hyde Park from Hyde Park Corner which can catch you unawares. Does that count? 😀

Did the "Ride with Brad"/ Pendle Pedal a couple of years ago which went over Waddington Fell then the climb over Cross o' Greet from Slaidburn. Neither of which were too bad. Going up Longridge from Chipping was a beast, then near the end you got Nick o' Pendle followed by a whole host of unnamed climbs. By that time I had ridden everything and was determined not to get off and walk - but they were definitely hard work!

There's a bit of an incline on the cycle path up through Hyde Park from Hyde Park Corner which can catch you unawares. Does that count?

I'm assuming it's a segment?

Local to my parents' place (I rode from the door). Ride it twice if you want to hit 100 miles.
[url= https://www.strava.com/activities/192338720 ]big French hill[/url]

After some fiddling, trying to have less repeating and spend more time in the proper hills. I have come up with:

[b]Distance:[/b] 169km
[b]Ascent:[/b] 4034m

as a bonus, it now takes in the four highest passes in england.
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I'm pencilling it in for the summer.

Had a play around to get as much as climbing as I could for 100k, ended up with a bit more distance but a decent amount of elevation gain. 2500m in 108km

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[url= https://www.strava.com/routes/2053045 ]https://www.strava.com/routes/2053045[/url]

Edit: Just noticed the top of the route looks like a face

Good of you to save the biggest til the very end too!

It might just be me but I can't see that one, is it public?

http://www.mapmyride.com/gb/gorebridge-sct/middleton-loop-route-172064600

TeifiTerror - can I suggest that at 32.4m you turn left and take the minor road over Mynydd Llanllwni? The A485 between Llanllwni and New Inn is a nasty, dangerous bit of road.

langylad - Member
Ransos, the Le Terrier looks a bit of a beast. That climb from Slaidburn towards Bentham is an amazing stretch of road. Living in Clitheroe i have ridden most of this route, but never in chunks of more than 50 miles.

If you think Le Terrier is hard for that area you ain't seen nothing like this. Ladies and gentlemen I give you The Bowland Badass :
https://app.strava.com/routes/590569
Ok it's well over the criteria of the OP's 100 miles but at 167miles, over 18k of climbing taking in some of the best hills the Bowland fells have to offer it's one hell of a ride 😀

TeifiTerror - can I suggest that at 32.4m you turn left and take the minor road over Mynydd Llanllwni? The A485 between Llanllwni and New Inn is a nasty, dangerous bit of road.

That would have been the preference but was after elevation gain, that change would drop off about 90m climbing and put it at about 103km which just pushes it towards a bit easy, but you are right that would be a sensible change

that change would drop off about 90m climbing and put it at about 103km which just pushes it towards a bit easy

we have an evening club route in North London (well inside the M25) which is only 30 miles but has 2,500' of climbing.
hardly scenic by some of the standards above and the climbs tend to be short and sharp - but you can get a good hilly workout.