Moon Shadows are Evil

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I will ride you one day, hopefully before I am as old as @rick81721
 
rick81721 said:
Didn't even think about the altitude. I was huffing and puffing in Mexico city a few years ago
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BTW, this wouldnt be a Fiddlers Elbow type effort as that is above 20% grade. While some steep grades, this is a military built road and has a fairly consistent 7-9% average grade. Obviously not a picnic but a different type of effort.
 
stb222 said:
BTW, this wouldnt be a Fiddlers Elbow type effort as that is above 20% grade. While some steep grades, this is a military built road and has a fairly consistent 7-9% average grade. Obviously not a picnic but a different type of effort.
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Agreed. Strava says Fiddlers is 8% but that's the whole climb, counting the top run out. It's defined as a 1.4 mile segment but the climbing is all in the .1 to .7 mile realm, with at least half being a moderate amount of vertical.

Having said that, if you can't make it up Fiddlers I don't think I'd buy a bike bag & a ticket to Italy just yet.
 
Norm said:
Having said that, if you can't make it up Fiddlers I don't think I'd buy a bike bag & a ticket to Italy just yet.
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I only tried it once almost 2 years ago - pretty sure I can do it now. I made a loop starting at spruce run that hits iron bridge - gotta ride that one soon.
 
rick81721 said:
I only tried it once almost 2 years ago - pretty sure I can do it now. I made a loop starting at spruce run that hits iron bridge - gotta ride that one soon.
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That's 10 minutes from my house. Riding in that area will definitely build you some nice quads. It's also like interval training without even trying....climb, recover, climb recover, climb....
 
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