Hills. I hate them. What Would Dirt Do?

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Tim Kelley 22924 wrote:

It’s the coming around the corner and seeing that wall that smacks you in the face. You also have to decide if you cut the turn short and hit the steeper pitch, or do you take it a little wider, cover more distance, but have a less steep pitch…

I’ll be getting that KOM back soon.

I’m content coming in only 1 second behind Blacknell, although I imagine that he dropped a chain or stopped to fix a flat or something. But I did break the top 10 on Chain Bridge hill this morning…so you better stay away from that one Tim, that’s my hill!

[Tim Kelley]

@TwoWheelsDC 22933 wrote:

I’m content coming in only 1 second behind Blacknell, although I imagine that he dropped a chain or stopped to fix a flat or something. But I did break the top 10 on Chain Bridge hill this morning…so you better stay away from that one Tim, that’s my hill!

You mean 41st Street?

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Tim Kelley 22935 wrote:

You mean 41st Street?

Chain Bridge to Crest Lane

[rcannon100]

just did N. 24th/Upton in North Arlington

If you rang your bell, I woulda heard you from my door. If you try again and do fall over, we are only a block away and promise not to laugh too much.

[Tim Kelley]

twowheelsdc;22933 wrote:

…so you better stay away from that one tim, that’s my hill!

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[DaveK]

Thanks to this thread I finally connected TwoWheelsDC and my Strava account. Also Blacknell should be way ahead of me on that hill, so he likely was asleep or something.

Also as I’ve said previously – do not poke the Tim Kelley. You’ll make it angry.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@DaveK 22949 wrote:

Thanks to this thread I finally connected TwoWheelsDC and my Strava account. Also Blacknell should be way ahead of me on that hill, so he likely was asleep or something.

Also as I’ve said previously – do not poke the Tim Kelley. You’ll make it angry.

If you want to find my listing for any given segment, just start at the bottom and you’ll find it pretty quickly. And if you’re out riding, I’m the guy on either a blue Cannondale or cream-colored Bianchi, always sporting a Sharrows button. Wave as you blow past me!

[DismalScientist]

This Strava stuff is way overblown. I just picked up a KOM on my morning commute on a 40 year old bike wearing khaki pants.:rolleyes:

[vvill]

This is my favorite named Strava segment
http://app.strava.com/segments/852724

Makes me laugh every time I see it on someone’s ride. I should ride it sometime.

[DaveK]

@vvill 22986 wrote:

This is my favorite named Strava segment
http://app.strava.com/segments/852724

Makes me laugh every time I see it on someone’s ride. I should ride it sometime.

I obviously have ridden that street since I’m on there, but I have no memory of it. North Arlington is scary like that.

[dasgeh]

Yesterday, I did the Key Blvd connector trail (my new official name for the trail that will get you from Key Blvd and Rhodes to a parking lot that takes you to where Scott becomes Key Blvd part deux). Holy moly. You enter and think “oh, that’s a steep downhill, but at least momentum will get me up that steep uphill”, then you get up the part you can see, it bends around and gets STEEPER. With e-assist in 1st gear, it was difficult. Ugh.

Did anyone ever think of making that a bridge with a more gradual grade? I’m thinking a swinging bridge would be added fun for the cyclists…

[DismalScientist]

I would suggest if you are on Key farther west than Vietch, that you turn left on Vietch, cross Lee Hwy, Vietch become 21st, then Scott. It’s a much smoother grade down the hill than taking what I would call a pedestrian path.

[vvill]

@elcee 22461 wrote:

For the hill-aficionado, there is a short but very steep road on the 4000 block of 22nd Street North, just off Military Road across from Cherrydale Library. It’s narrow, rough, and the sharp right turn is guaranteed to kill any momentum.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4000+22nd+Street+North,+Arlington,+VA&hl=en&ll=38.899183,-77.107769&spn=0.007164,0.009688&sll=38.899139,-77.107745&sspn=0.001799,0.002422&oq=4000+22nd+stre+arlington+va&hnear=4000+22nd+St+N,+Arlington,+Virginia+22207&t=m&z=17

I tried this out on the way home today. I didn’t expect any traffic but first a car in front of me stopped dead in the road before the sharp right turn and people started getting out. It is a VERY narrow road so I don’t blame them (and they were probably wondering what a cyclist was doing there, assuming they live there or know someone who does). After I’d gotten around them (I passed on their left), a big white Verizon truck came down the turn! So definitely 0 momentum going up. It was steep indeed but very short. I think N Pollard or N Lincoln (both sort of parallel) are tougher climbs.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Word of warning…don’t do 41st St. and 24th/Upton at the tail end of a 53 mile ride. It’s like when, as a kid, you got in trouble and had to wait until dad got home to get your punishment.

[Mark Blacknell]

That’s the very best time to do it!

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