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Single Speed - ascent

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  • 21-09-2008 9:36am
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    Harrybelafonte
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    Would you be nuts to try and take on the hill from Drumcondra to Santry on a single speed?


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    TinyExplosions
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    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    Would you be nuts to try and take on the hill from Drumcondra to Santry on a single speed?

    Nope, have done it a fair few times both on my fixie and on my singlespeed (before she died!)


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    Gavin
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    Ditto,
    I do this one every morning, it's quite doable. 45-16 gearing on the bike though which isn't ferocious.


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    psycholist
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    49 x 15, it's fun sitting the 4a all the way up it!


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    Chips Lovell
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    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    Would you be nuts to try and take on the hill from Drumcondra to Santry on a single speed?

    What hill?;)


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    psycholist
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    el tonto wrote: »
    What hill?;)

    hahahahahaha


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    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Listen, if you're as unfit as I am it's a mountain. I have to take on the first bit, relax on Griffith Ave. for awhile before continuing, and that's with gears.


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    Gavin
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    a few weeks of grinding up it on a singlespeed and it'll be nothing to you


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    DirkVoodoo
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    Woops, wrong thread!


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    blorg
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    I got used to climbing on my fixie pretty quickly- would have a good base level of fitness though. I think a fixie is a bit easier than a singlespeed, there is a certain flywheel effect getting you over the dead spot and it is easier to get into a good rhythm.

    Remember you can always turn those cranks slower!


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    Supercell
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    Keep at it OP, I have my own personal Everest that is Putland road in Bray. Its right at the end of my spin home and it kicks my ass every time. By the top I'm near keeling over, but I bet in a couple of months time I'll be flying up it :) (wont be for lack of trying).
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

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    unionman
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    el tonto wrote: »
    What hill?;)

    That's what I was thinking.

    But no, it wouldn't be mad, ye'd crack it in no time.


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    mkdon05
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    Do it every day on a singelspeed, I wouldn't be the fittest myself, but it is very do-able.


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