http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/03/03/worlds-steepest-roads/?intcmp=HPBucket
Here’s a few bucket list routes.
Anyone know what the steepest road in Atlanta is(ITP)? I’ve got 2 or 3 on my usual route that hit 20 to 25%(avg 15% to 20%), but only maintain that for .1 to .2 of a mile. Be interested in finding a few other good climbs(ITP)
http://www.foxnews.com/...ads/?intcmp=HPBucket
Here’s a few bucket list routes.
Anyone know what the steepest road in Atlanta is(ITP)? I’ve got 2 or 3 on my usual route that hit 20 to 25%(avg 15% to 20%), but only maintain that for .1 to .2 of a mile. Be interested in finding a few other good climbs(ITP)
I don’t know how steep it is, but last year I was visiting my mother ITP and went for a run. I ended up on Clairmont running up toward Druid Hills Road. There is a half mile stretch starting at the VA Hospital that is a bitch! I would guess 20% average with some steeper sections.
How about running to the top of Stonemountain.
Check out the street in Dunedin New Zealand…
It’s not going on my bucket list…
Stone Mountain has two great hills. One the “Mountain” itself and the other is on the road on the backside of the mountain that goes up to the convention center/hotel(short but good and steep). But Stone Mountain is Outside the Perimeter(OTP), not ITP.
I’ve run up and down Waipio Rd. several times. Since Pittsburgh isn’t that far from Columbus, OH I need to run Canton Ave. some day. I can’t imagine cycling up or down Waipio Rd.
The hardest climb in Europe. So steep that they will not hold bike races on it. You require a mountain bike with a triple chainring to even get up it. There are sections at 45% gradient.
Scanuppia Climb
I’m skeptical that this is really Fox news. The article didn’t blame Obama.
I’ve done this ride in Vermont that has sustained 20 - 24% gradients. The route has some serious climbing.
if you haven’t read the bible, you should.
Don’t worry, it isn’t very long at all - you could totally make it in one push! Some years ago I had the chance to drive up it and it was a very fun experience!
if you haven’t read the bible, you should.
Just be sure to ignore it every time you see the sentence “true climbing has ended” It hasn’t.
I did a ride on a camp in the yorkshire dales this year and we ended up on the steepest road i have ever been on. My Garmin reckons it was 32% and it just went on and on and on for nearly a mile. Grinding a 34x28 at 30 rpm, that was the closest iv ever been to getting off and walking. Oddly, when we got back and looked at the route, the road wasnt named or even on the map, the line just cut from one road, through a field and joined up to another road.
I’ve been up #5, about 95 miles into a hilly 110 mile sportive ride (The Brian Robinson Challenge). It was so steep that I had to use my compact. Serious.
See if you can spot it
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/178097094
3 HI references:
rumor among Waipio locals is that LA has the record for the Waipio climb (on a mtn bike) in ~7 minutes
need to clarify what “steepest” means. Haleakala claims to be the “steepest road on earth” ascending 10,000 feet in 37 miles
some driveways on Tantalus Drive loop on Oahu are ~40% grade (but only 1/8th mile long)
“There are several other cities around the world where roads are so steep that they can burn out car breaks and bamboozle bikers.”
Ouch.
Must be some big cutbacks at fox, if mistakes like this make it to their web pages …
Cut the writer a brake. He doesn’t know we prefer to be called cyclists. 
I’ve done this ride in Vermont that has sustained 20 - 24% gradients. The route has some serious climbing.
http://www.northeastcycling.com/six_gaps.html
Theres a hillclimb that goes up Ascutney in Vt, the length of the steep sections on the first 1.5 miles are nuts.
In the Davis Mountains in West Texas there is road from the visitors center to the observatory that while not a long ride is steep and at altitude (at least for a sea level flat lander such as myself).
you may want to check out this website
www.salite.ch
it is in Italian but very easy to browse through even without Italian knowledge
slope category is from 1 to 10 with specific scoring for the overall course difficulty.
Y axes always in meters
X axes in km
These are the most difficult in Europe
http://www.salite.ch/...ttura/tabella_10.asp
these are quite tough…
http://www.salite.ch/scanuppia.asp
http://www.salite.ch/11371.asp