RWGPS even picked a not great route over there. It said to climb SW Broadway out of downtown, which is a death sentence.
If you decide to do it again, Multnomah and SW 5th/6th are good east-west roads through there.
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My normal climb up the hill is LaView, but shit it’s so much harder with red blood cells; springwater->fifth/sixth->multnomah is enough longer that I’d win by walking up that ramp
Just got back from a week of cycling in the Yorkshire Dales. A former coworker lent us his house and bikes, which miraculously fit both me and my wife (she rode his son’s bike from middle school cycling club). It was incredibly generous, and his bike has spoiled me (Look 795) and has me thinking dangerous thoughts about a new road bike.
I love riding the steep (25%) climbs and technical descents (25% and consequences involving either sheep or dry stone walls) in the Dales. We had a couple days windy enough that the high moorland would have been sketchy, so we stuck to the lowlands and rode to Ripon and Fountain’s Abbey.
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Rode up Tan Hill on a rainy day and got hot chocolate at the highest pub in England.
Dales Bike Centre is awesome - nice bike shop, a solid rental fleet, MTB wash station, showers, great cafe, bunk barn and glamping huts.
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Is this what bike shops could look like if they didn’t have to be in strip malls or 5 over 1s?
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The idea of creating something similar in Maine briefly crossed my mind. Then I came to my senses and realized that running such a place would mean much less time for riding.
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I remember this when I was trying to ride to Council Crest, would not recommend
That looks lovely. I went to college in Sheffield, right on the edge of the Peak District. Beautiful place.
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We spent some time touring in the Peak District five years ago. The villages are nice and there are some fun climbs, but I think the roads are busier than the Dales. Sheffield was cool. I love the history of the Kinder Scout mass trespass.
I rode with @Crustradamus again today…
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Wisconsin roads. The maga is thick in the air out here these days. I got coal rolled for the first time in my life this morning.
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A three-water-crossing day. We almost made it a five-crosser.
Been raining all week so stayed away from the trails. Instead rode Wellingtons steepest streets. All very short, but a couple of doozys in there.
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A triple tarck century & lagniappe, for a whopping 56.5km (I took my partner to the airport on the trolley, then rode back, then rode up to the doctor’s office for a blood draw & back, stopping to inhale a vegan maple bar along the way) and a couple dozen pictures of trolley cars and trolley car couplers (I’m not posting all of them, but here’s a Bombardier/BN “Type 1” car – now 40-odd years old – on a Gresham-bound train):
And since I was at the airport, I had to try and take pictures of aircraft in final approach (most of which were blurry winged objects, but some worked out):
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ok hot shot
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For me these days that’s a fairly impressive ride, because I end up doing it oxygen starved and feeling like I’m gonna die every time I go up any sort of ramp.
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