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Some of you may be familiar with Simon Warren’s 100 Greatest Climbs book and I can safely say, it inspired us. So Sam decided he would take on a challenge and try and cycle as many of these coveted climbs as he could in one day. It’s no small challenge and it’s sure to test his endurance abilities but how many could he do from sunrise to sunset? He was riding his trusty road bike up each climb with a less than friendly 38/28 climbing gear.
The Peak District made for the perfect place to take on this challenge as it’s home to quite a few of the top 100 climbs so it meant ticking them off would be faster and the distance between climbs would be minimal. How many of these climbs do you think you could do in one day?
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I both love and hate now living in the Peaks. The views and climbs are incredible, but all my rides tend to be pretty slow, short and exhausting compared to my old ground of Nottinghamshire.
When are ya doing the rest? Think better gearing is a good shout 🙂
Definitely need 1-2-1 gearing for this challenge
I've done Pym's Chair a couple of times. It's one of the most brutal around the Peak District. You missed out the Corkscrew which is half way along near the church – 40% cobbles.
Well done – love this video and excited for the series. I’m chasing down the 100 club and it took me 4 rides to tick off all of those in your 1 day. 👏 gearing definitely very naive, 36-32 or less needed for those back to back climbs. Unless you are a beast
Bloody good effort and I do feel your pain! I was running a 39-25 biggest gear! ‘Wimping out’ with a 36-28🤣! I do need a 34-32 though!! Hills are getting harder at 55!
Well done.
What Garmin are you using?
Gearing should have been the first thing you thought of in preparation.
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38/28?
Sam, pushing out great content. Well done to you sir!!!
Matlock isn’t that far away from me and there’s no a chance I could get up these climbs on 38/28 they’re hard enough on 34/32 but then I weigh about 85 kilos and enjoy having working knees and lower back
Now you just need a video on the hardest descents!
Rowley Bar, the world's hardest 6/10 climb! Superb effort, this video brings back some great albeit painful memories of riding in the Peak District.
I've done six in a day in one ride.
That's insane. Well done
we deffo need a Lakes Edition, and a Dales (Yorkshire, Tees, Wear) Edition
This is some Lachlan Morton shit Kudos kudos
Great Job Sam, and what a coincidence meeting you at the end of your day on that beautiful peek at sunset. See ya mate, Trevor
I did this. I did bike deliveries in San Francisco in the beginning of the pandemic 😂. I nearly killed myself trying to get to the top of Twin Peaks twice in one day with giant bags of food, plus 5 more crazy climbs (Nob Hill, Potrero Hill, Diamond Heights, etc.) It took me 2 weeks to recover.
PS I should note that the streets in SF get up to 43.5%, it's no joke. I broke my pedal off once pushing so hard, but that fortunately wasn't on a delivery.
Crazy how 100 turned out to be 20, and then 18. Using the same logic I attempted 80 of the 100 toughest climbs lazing on the couch all day, but by evening I ran out of time.
Amazing!! I did a bit of climbing while in the UK earlier in the year. To quote my father in law, "England doesn't have big mountains but it has some pretty big hills!" Did you keep track of the total meters climbed in your day?