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Is that you?! That's a lot of climbing! Great stuff and congrats!
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Kudos. That's an awesome achievement.. ,
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What's involved PB?
It works out to 12 meters a minute.
Do ride up it?
Carry the bike?
What do you actually do over the 12 hrs?
It works out to 12 meters a minute.
Do ride up it?
Carry the bike?
What do you actually do over the 12 hrs?
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The basic explanation is vertical metres are accumulated whilst riding up a hill. The distance travelled is irrelevent, only the height of the hill is relevent. The steeper the hill, the more metres accumulated per distance travelled. Think of height from sea level to the top of a particular hill/mountain.
The hill I chose was just under 500m in distance, but climbed 60.6m in elevation (for cyclists out there ~13.3% average). In my time limit of 12hrs I did 153 laps of the circut (up and down the hill continuously) = 9271.8m. To put into perspective, Mt Everest peak from sea level is 8848m, so effectively I climbed higher than the height of Everest in a single ride, in 12hrs.
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Yeh I do a few ks on a bike.
And plenty of hills.
The one out the front door is 800 meters and close
To your hill
Just down the road is Willunga Hill the one that the tour down
Ride up. Done it a few times but all day!!!
What type of bike did you ride?
Road or Mountain or Custom?
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Willunga hill is only 7.6%
but check this out---you'd appreciate it.
http://www.cycle2max.com/bike-hill-climb/Old-Willunga-Hill.aspx?id=656
So to get your record you'd have to do 4 climbs an hr for 12 hrs
Wow
I doubt I'd last more than a couple of hrs on a mountain bike
Less on a roadie.
Top job!
but check this out---you'd appreciate it.
http://www.cycle2max.com/bike-hill-climb/Old-Willunga-Hill.aspx?id=656
So to get your record you'd have to do 4 climbs an hr for 12 hrs
Wow
I doubt I'd last more than a couple of hrs on a mountain bike
Less on a roadie.
Top job!
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Our Local gut buster is 101m elevation gain at ~18% average. For one brief second I contemplated 92 Reps and your achievement was suddenly in context.
Awesome – slightly crazy maybe but freakin awesome.
Well done.
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The record stipulates a 'human powered; commercially available to the public' bicycle. So any bike, as long as no motor, and no prototypes.
Personally I rode a Giant Defy, with a few custom adjustments (I dropped every bit of weight I could, getting the complete bike sub 6kg). I doubt these types of records could be broken on anything less than a Roadie.
Yes, I know Willunga, Basically my hill I used was twice as steep!
I definitely wont be able to sustain that for the 48hr, and will most likely use a hill with 10% like the current record holder.
Will need a full team of people helping me for the 48hr thats for sure!
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So fantastic!
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Congratulations pinkboy, that's an amazing achievement!
I didn't realize we had Guinness World Record holders here at ASF. Great stuff!
I didn't realize we had Guinness World Record holders here at ASF. Great stuff!
