Kilmashogue lane

We had the hill climb champs there a few years back. Tis a good one. Steep all the way.

It's horrible.

I remember once Andras from Thinkbike did it 9 times in a row.

it's one of the harder climbs for sure. one to take on when legs are good. the bit between the last 3 houses at the end hurts but you're almost at the top so it's one last dig (for a good two mins!)

steep for me :-D

I too have done it 3 times. It’s a killer, I’ve fallen once on it when it kicked it up a bit on gravel and I just stopped moving forward. I say I fell it was that steep I just leaned over and was touching the rising ground :pac:

it’s a good one to test yourself on. Having climbed every single hill in the 5km radius of there to city west over lock down it is the tougher of them all in my opinion.

According to Strava I've done it 6 times but not since 2018. It's the last climb on this year's Boards Evil Ride so it should be fun with 200k and 4,500 metres in the legs.

It's not ideal in the wet as the rear wheel will slip when you get out of the saddle on the steep part near the farmyard. It's not a particularly pleasant descent either as there's too much to go wrong if you open up.

It's tough but there are tougher climbs out there IMO - Glassavullan Lane comes to mind. There's also another one in the Tallaght vicinity the name of which I can't recall now but I was going so slow on it that I simply fell over against a grass bank.

Funny, the same thing happened to me on Tibradden Lane a good few years ago. A local resident was coming down in her car and pulled diagonally across the road forcing me to stop. She asked me what I was doing cycling up a cul de sac. When I responded that was a public road, she declared that cul de sacs were private and for 'residents only'.

The first time I went up Kilmashogue Lane, an elderly man ran after me for a bit waving a very large wrench above his head. I don't think he was offering mechanical assistance. Some strange folks in those Dublin lanes!

Short answer, no.

You could maybe go offroad through ticknock and around the houses to tibradden mountain and back down to join back up with the road, but having only ever been up there on a road bike, i've no idea what the paths/rights of way on the hills are once you get on the gravel

My mistake I was looking at the "Off-Road" version on Strava. Steeper gain than I thought but not as long. So its 5 times longer but not quiet as steep overall I think its a harder climb.

I've been on a compact 50/34 with a 12-32 cassette when I've done it

10.08 for me, but 7 years ago. I wonder if I could knock 30 sec off and get into the top10. Will have to see what sort of power that would need, and then, like fat bloke, just avoid it for another 7 years 😃