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Cyclists - Toughest Hills of Brighton?



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k2bluesky

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Sep 22, 2008
803
Brighton
Just wondering in what order other cyclists would place.

Ditchling Beacon
Coldean lane
Rottingdean to Falmer
Saddlecombe (from roundabout to golf club)
Bear Road
Wilson Avenue

Feel free to add others but think they must be over 800mts long to qualify.
 




Badger

Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
NSC Patron
May 8, 2007
12,773
Toronto
I'd add Mill Road into the mix
 


Herr Tubthumper

Herr Tubthumper

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
59,465
The Fatherland
The mountains NSCers often make out of mole hills?
 


wolfie

wolfie

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Jul 19, 2003
1,662
Warwickshire
k2bluesky said:
Just wondering in what order other cyclists would place.

Ditchling Beacon
Coldean lane
Rottingdean to Falmer
Saddlecombe (from roundabout to golf club)
Bear Road
Wilson Avenue




Feel free to add others but think they must be over 800mts long to qualify.
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Have recently done 2 and 3 to and from Albion games. 2 is harder than 3 which is a long crawl. The Beacon is the hardest, mainly because of the traffic trying to get round you. Used to do 5 and 6 a lot as a kid - not much in it. Clayton Hill is also a slog if you try to avoid the Beacon.
 
















teaboy

teaboy

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Jul 5, 2003
1,840
My house
Spiros said:
Not cycled up it myself but watched the Tour de France come up Elm Grove a few years ago and even Chris Boardman had to get out of the saddle
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He's not known for being a mountain goat though.

Bear road. On a track bike. Down it.
 


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Cheeky Monkey

Well-known member
Jul 17, 2003
23,033
Whatever that road is that goes from London Road up to the PDSA near Preston Park.

As someone who regularly cycles up and down Stamford Avenue I'd rate that as an extremely arduous experience. The gradient isn't monstrously prohibitive, but it just goes on and on, and because it's so straight you can see the entire experience mapped out in front of you, laughing in your face, as you set off up it from the bottom.
 
















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mccraque

Active member
Feb 24, 2009
343
Biked from Eastbourne to Burgess Hill last Good Friday with a hangover. South Downs Way. That was pretty gruelling.

Beautiful sight of a brand new Falmer made me smile though!:clap:
 


VAL1850

VAL1850

Well-known member
Nov 22, 2008
1,920
Beachy Head & WSU
As a mountain biker - The big four tarmac climbs between E/B and Brighton I would consider in order of difficulty as:

Ditchling Beacon - long & windy never sure when end is near - traffic
Butts Lane E/B - tough start and finish plateau in middle
Bo Peep - two nasty steep corners often into head wind
Firle Beacon - gradual can gety good rythm going
 




Stat Brother

Stat Brother

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NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
73,640
West west west Sussex
I'm not going to be a great deal of help on these, but.

Ditchling isn't that bad, as road cycling goes, because of the bends.
You can ride them out wide and cut back in so for a moment you're actually going down hill.
I've not ridden up Coldean but have my quickest ever time, on a bike, coming down it, 49.1mph.

Get yourself up The Steyning Bostal or worse still Cobb Lane (Ardingly way).
The only 2 climbs in Sussex have had to get off on.
I can do Steyning now, but Cobb Lane is 3-0 up.
 


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Poyetry In Motion

Pooetry Motions
Feb 26, 2009
3,556
6.61 miles from the Amex
I'd like to nominate King George VI Avenue ( otherwise known as Snakey Hill ) in Hove. Not too bad once you get to the top, but the bottom bit from Goldstone Crescent is really knackering!
 


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