Over the years, we’ve made it our mission here at GCN to seek out and attempt to ride the steepest road in the world. We’ve tackled Ffordd Pen Llech, Bamford Clough, but now we’ve heard about a brutal climb in Italy called Salita Scanuppia. At 7.5km long with an average gradient of 17.6% and maximum of 42.8%, we think we may have finally found the world’s hardest climb. So, naturally, we sent Ollie to try to ride it!
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What other roads and climbs would you love to see us ride?
Ο ΛΟΓΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΚΑΤΑΦΕΡΕΣ ΝΑ ΑΝΕΒΕΙΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΟΤΙ ΕΙΧΕΣ ΧΑΜΗΛΑ ΤΟ ΤΙΜΟΝΙ , ΘΕΛΕΙ ΠΙΟ ΨΗΛΑ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΠΕΦΤΕΙ ΟΛΟ ΤΟ ΒΑΡΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ ΠΑΝΩ ΣΤΟ ΠΕΤΑΛΙ ΔΗΛΑΔΗ ΟΣΟ ΠΙΟ ΚΑΘΕΤΑ ΠΑΝΩ ΣΤΟ ΠΕΤΑΛΙ , ΕΣΥ ΕΓΕΡΝΡΣ ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΑΥΤΟ ΚΟΡΑΣΤΙΚΕ Η ΠΛΑΤΗ ΣΟΥ , ΕΠΙΣΗς ΗΘΕΛΕΣ ΠΙΟ ΜΙΚΡΟ ΤΙΜΟΝΙ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΒΓΑΙΝΕΙ Η ΔΥΝΑΜΗ ΤΩΝ ΧΕΡΙΩΝ ΚΑΘΕΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΝΑ ΜΗ ΧΑΝΕΤΕ ΣΤΑ ΠΛΑΓΙΑ
Million bucks on top of the hill. Ride up and get it under 4 hours, who’d be game enough?
How big is a large ?
I wondered if Ollie not wearing helmet, shirt, and socks and no bar tape might have helped. Man that is so steep, I would have walked on the way down too!!
The Italian style 💪🤘
You'll be needing to book a ticket to New Zealand. Or for a close run 2nd place, Wales, according to this article:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2020/4/baldwin-street-in-new-zealand-reinstated-as-the-worlds-steepest-street-614287
Inspired by your video, I made mine for Austria: https://youtu.be/0utEu3nOsfY
maybe shaved the beard, more lightweight?
One idea from a keyboard warrior: the trick I have been using on REALLY steep stuff (in my standards, but with camping gear on the bike) is to use the full width of the road and go in a S-line! That way you reduce the climbing angle slightly. On a very slim road like this one it won't help very much, however.
try it with a hardtail mountain bike (maybe a rigid front fork), with a lot of shimano chainsets you can run a 26 tooth chainring, and sram offers a 52 tooth cog. you have to use the 64bcd bolts that are kinda hidden inside
He needs to try the real steepest road in Italy: https://youtu.be/xrUt1_lZoQk
i wonder if that hill is a problem for bike with 34 teeth cog and 46 to 52 casette
7.5 km climb with average gradient of 17% is really insane
my toxic trait sais me that I can do this climb
Try Mauna Kea
Don Salvador Benedicto negros occidental Philippines
• Total 170.50 km2 (65.83 sq mi)
Elevation 715 m (2,346 ft)
Highest elevation 1,535 m (5,036 ft)
Lowest elevation 260 m (850 ft)
Necessary
please next time invite Alan and Giorgione🤣🤣🤣
Why wouldn't you go to a rear cluster that has a 52 tooth gear ???
i start where i stop but that 40% grad is absurd
Really, I don't understand all that drama. It's steep, yes, everybody knows it and you know that it's steep. Close to 80° or 89°, sure 🙂 So why did you choose 38:42? Choose 50:24 and whine and complain even more 🙂 Of course you can't do it on a normal bike. Nobody expected that. Why not to get some appropriate rate, like 32:64? or 24:80? Just choose the proper gear rate and do it and show us! Without all that whining. That would be interesting. This one is a real fail.
4:22 He swallows like he is a cartoon!
Wouldn't wanna do the decent either :/
They need to have this in the Giro or the Tour, it would be epic!
Try a quad bike
Does anyone know if easier gearing still can be fitted (maybe some adapted mechs)? Like 50 out back, 34 up front?
Shit I would use a 50T on rear ! What would do the trick !
A 42 on the back is great, why a massive 38 on the front? Why not a 34, 30 or something even smaller? Why travel a thousand miles or so and use gearing that doesn't work even if you sit down and do the math on paper? Why not a 34×52 off a mountain bike?
Your guys videos always make my day , thanks very much , keep making people smile , I love the positive vibes !😊❤
Why weren't supposed to ride MTB to the uphill road, Sir?
next time use a compact 50 34 or sub compact for more climbing power. glad you left the weight weenie club thinking you could brute force and snap the chain to the top of a mountain