Rosedale Chimney !

Morrisseeee

Has anyone rode up this fearsome 'hill' ?!? :cool:
Its in North Yorkshire. Just out of curiosity, how would it compare to our steepest climbs here in Ireland ?
The Chimney
I read about it in a magazine the other day, some guy had failed to finish it on numerous occasions but for the article he managed to do it. He was quoting gradients of 25%/36%/39%.....ouch !! :eek: (.........but..........the gradients shown above on the link are not as fearsome !!)
I then stumbled on it while browsing the net today, article , and the lads were using fixed gear bikes with 42-22 or 24, fair play, I know I wouldn't have the legs, I'd be struggling with 28-34 !!

adodsk

loads of talk about it on here along with some other UK monsters.....

Beasty

Used to live only a few miles away, but can honestly say I've never been anywhere near it on a bike. There are a few roads with 25%+ gradients in the North Yorks Moors - the most famous one being Sutton Bank, which I ended up walking up most of the way on a coast to coast (Morecambe to Scarborough) a few years ago

I have been up The Rake in Ramsbottom, just outside Bury, a few times though. It has been used for UK Hill Climb championships, and is about 25% maximum gradient (I could not get any traction on the back wheel at one point) - it's also cobbled in places!

adodsk

Doesn't quite have those steep gradients but I always fancied trying this out for endurance. Lovely part of the world.

There are a couple of sportives each year which include it...

Jawgap

I've walked it, but never cycled it - and it's steep, but the views etc in the area are outstanding.

Sutton Bank, as Beasty pointed out, would be worth a climb if for no other reason than there's a lovely town at the top.

A lot of the "banks" in the area rise up to moorland so the elevation gain isn't that great - probably getting close to some of the lower Wicklow mountains, but the gradients can be 20% upwards - I think Sutton Bank is 25%.

Did a bit in the SW of England this time last year and it was savage climbing all 20% ups and downs - slept like a baby after that day!

Kirkstone Pass might be the ultimate one in England - I have this on my list of to-do's!

Jawgap

Scrub that - I was confused - I've done Kirkstone and it was bloody hard work - I think I meant Hardknott, which I've driven and walked, but yet to cycle!

GlennaMaddy

Beasty wrote: »

Bury The Rake in Ramsbottom

Mjust go over there someday and mess with the local signposts :-)

Beasty

Jawgap wrote: »

Scrub that - I was confused - I've done Kirkstone and it was bloody hard work - I think I meant Hardknott, which I've driven and walked, but yet to cycle!

I presume you meant scrub the Sutton Bank bit, as I can confirm there is definitely no town at the top! However, a few miles down the road is a place called Helmsley - now that is a very nice town (not much more than a village actually), and was the place where the policeman that wrote the Heartbeat books was based - I also went to primary school there.

Beasty

GlennaMaddy wrote: »

Mjust go over there someday and mess with the local signposts :-)

When the locals ask you where you're going, just say Upper Ramsbottom - they'll direct you appropriately;)

neris

that the hill the young lad wheels the bread up?

Beasty

No, that's Accrington, Stanley ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLBvLxLJMI

I think it's actually filmed somewhere in Yorkshire, but could be wrongon Gold Hill in Shaftesbury:D

Morrisseeee

Those 'hills' on the road home from Tramore to Dungarvan (on the SKTour 90km route last Sunday) all seemed like 33% gradients :eek:

Or as one poster (in the forum mentioned above) said: "...I had a Guinness the other night, 3 £ 50 it was, .......now thats 'steep' "