Wednesday, October 10, 2007







My ideal vacation plan, visit Baldwin Street, Dunedin (NZ), the world's steepest at 38% gradient. Then do 10 hill repeats up and down on a road bike, .... that is, if I can make the first one! It'd be faster walking up, I deem. What do you think?

6 comments:

  1. steep? holy crap! good training area, for sure!

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  2. I honestly doubt that is climbable on a road bike.

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  3. This is where strength to weight ratio comes in... ideally, i would be 140lbs, have a 13 lb bike, no water bottles or cages, and a compact wussie gearing, like 34x21... then stand and dance on the pedals. yes, it'd be faster walking up, but what the heck :) you're a cyclist!

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  4. I've been there -- it sure wasn't climbable for me!

    ps -- Elmira, Ithaca, Syracuse girl, here!

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  6. I tried a 20% gradient hill with a bike loaded , about 22 pounds, I barely managed getting to the top. I had to stop twice, and it was so hot, it made the climbing ridiculous. I had an epiphany about power training right there.

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