https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/free-from-uci-limits-inside-pete-stetina-and-ian-boswells-super-light-mt-washington-hillclimb-bike-builds
Lots of fun information here on the old records, the new records, and
peoples opinion of what in tommy's opinion is in a state (New Hampshire)
that "is mostly flat"...
"“I think it is the hardest mountain in the U.S. Maybe even one of the hardest in the world,” [Peter] Stetina told Cycling Weekly. “Meter for meter, it is harder than the Zoncolan or Angliru.” Women’s record holder Illi Gardner echoed the sentiment, saying: “It’s harder than almost
every climb I’ve done.”
zen cycle <[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/free-from-uci-limits-inside-pete-stetina-and-ian-boswells-super-light-mt-washington-hillclimb-bike-builds
Lots of fun information here on the old records, the new records, and
peoples opinion of what in tommy's opinion is in a state (New Hampshire)
that "is mostly flat"...
"“I think it is the hardest mountain in the U.S. Maybe even one of the
hardest in the world,” [Peter] Stetina told Cycling Weekly. “Meter for >> meter, it is harder than the Zoncolan or Angliru.” Women’s record holder >> Illi Gardner echoed the sentiment, saying: “It’s harder than almost
every climb I’ve done.”
And she seems to go out of her way to find truly awful climbs! She is top
of the leaderboards on lots of the climbs back in Wales as she is from the same vague area.
12.6% over 7 miles is definitely tasty, even without any 22% ramps!
Roger Merriman <[email protected]> writes:
zen cycle <[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/free-from-uci-limits-inside-pete-stetina-and-ian-boswells-super-light-mt-washington-hillclimb-bike-builds
Lots of fun information here on the old records, the new records, and
peoples opinion of what in tommy's opinion is in a state (New Hampshire) >>> that "is mostly flat"...
"“I think it is the hardest mountain in the U.S. Maybe even one of the >>> hardest in the world,” [Peter] Stetina told Cycling Weekly. “Meter for >>> meter, it is harder than the Zoncolan or Angliru.” Women’s record holder
Illi Gardner echoed the sentiment, saying: “It’s harder than almost
every climb I’ve done.”
And she seems to go out of her way to find truly awful climbs! She is top
of the leaderboards on lots of the climbs back in Wales as she is from the >> same vague area.
12.6% over 7 miles is definitely tasty, even without any 22% ramps!
In my pass database (> 10000 entries) Mt. Washington is a "Pareto"
climb, which means it is the steepest climb for a given length or, the
other way around, the longest climb for a given steepness.
Doing a bit of data mining, here is some competition for Mt. Washington
that I conquered over the years in the Alps:
| km | Start | End | Climb (m) | % | lp^2 | Name | |-------+-------+------+-----------+------+------+------------------------|
| 9.01 | 288 | 1495 | 1207 | 13.4 | 1811 | Alpe Fuori |
| 9.70 | 720 | 1970 | 1250 | 12.9 | 1677 | Kitzbueheler Horn |
| 12.45 | 471 | 1888 | 1417 | 11.4 | 2009 | L'Erie |
| 15.30 | 442 | 2157 | 1715 | 11.2 | 2009 | Rionda |
| 14.85 | 842 | 2451 | 1609 | 10.8 | 1889 | Breithorn |
| 13.30 | 1380 | 2803 | 1423 | 10.7 | 1562 | Oetztaler Gletscher |
| 12.32 | 710 | 2025 | 1315 | 10.7 | 1638 | Hochsteinhuette |
| 12.20 | 551 | 1852 | 1301 | 10.7 | 1649 | Mortirolo |
| 12.00 | 540 | 1764 | 1224 | 10.2 | 1273 | Gerlitzen-Alpenstrasse |
| 16.70 | 725 | 2394 | 1669 | 10.0 | 2102 | Grosser Oscheniksee |
| 13.13 | 218 | 1525 | 1307 | 10.0 | 1415 | Prati di Nago | |-------+-------+------+-----------+------+------+------------------------|
| 12.40 | 488 | 1908 | 1420 | 11.5 | 1718 | Mount Washington |
The "lp^2" is a piecewise sum over the segments of a climb, squaring
the segment's gradient in % and multiplying by the segment's length.
Among climb enthusiast this is the "gold standard" for measuring the difficulty of a climb. I can tell you that you will have vivid
memories for everything you have done above 1500 difficulty ...
It goes without saying that almost everything that is done during the
Tour de France is easy by comparison, the Ventoux has about 1300, and
the oh-so-famous L'Alpe d'Huez, ugly, short, not high, flat, easy (by comparison) a meagre 900. (-:
The Zillertaler ridge road alone offers 6 ways to get up there
beyond 1300:
https://www.quaeldich.de/paesse/zillertaler-hoehenstrasse/#auffahrten
And the Monte Grappa has 7 ways to the top above 1400.
Best regards,
Axel
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/free-from-uci-limits-inside-pete-stetina-and-ian-boswells-super-light-mt-washington-hillclimb-bike-builds
Lots of fun information here on the old records, the new records, and
peoples opinion of what in tommy's opinion is in a state (New Hampshire)
that "is mostly flat"...
"?I think it is the hardest mountain in the U.S. Maybe even one of the hardest in the world,? [Peter] Stetina told Cycling Weekly. ?Meter for
meter, it is harder than the Zoncolan or Angliru.? Women?s record holder
Illi Gardner echoed the sentiment, saying: ?It?s harder than almost
every climb I?ve done.?
On Thu Aug 21 17:40:17 2025 zen cycle wrote:
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/free-from-uci-limits-inside-pete-stetina-and-ian-boswells-super-light-mt-washington-hillclimb-bike-builds
Lots of fun information here on the old records, the new records, and
peoples opinion of what in tommy's opinion is in a state (New Hampshire)
that "is mostly flat"...
"?I think it is the hardest mountain in the U.S. Maybe even one of the
hardest in the world,? [Peter] Stetina told Cycling Weekly. ?Meter for
meter, it is harder than the Zoncolan or Angliru.? Women?s record holder
Illi Gardner echoed the sentiment, saying: ?It?s harder than almost
every climb I?ve done.?
What we DO know is that Flunky coulodn't climb an ant hill. He rides "virtuaol rides" and claims that he is coming in 2nd in virtual races as if any self respecting racer would be involved in a "virtual" race.Flunky, were those also virtual?
And Flunky is attempting now to tell us that the company he works for is at the top of Mt. Washington and not down on the perfectly flat ground on the St. Lawrence seaway.
Flunky is just thrilled to death that a world class loser like Gavin Newscum is going to run for Pr4esident in two years. Let's see how that goes for the man who did 2, 200 mile rides filled with climbing with an average speed of 20 mph. Tell us,
On 8/22/2025 3:14 PM, cyclintom wrote:
What we DO know is that Flunky coulodn't climb an ant hill.
"virtuaol rides" and claims that he is coming in 2nd in virtual races
as if any self respecting racer would be involved in a "virtual" race.
And Flunky is attempting now to tell us that the company he works for
is at the top of Mt. Washington and not down on the perfectly flat
ground on the St. Lawrence seaway.
Flunky is just thrilled to death that a world class loser like Gavin
Newscum is going to run for Pr4esident in two years.
Let's see how
that goes for the man who did 2, 200 mile rides filled with climbing
with an average speed of 20 mph.
Tell us, Flunky, were those also
virtual?
On 8/22/2025 3:14 PM, cyclintom wrote:
On Thu Aug 21 17:40:17 2025 zen cycle wrote:
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/free-from-uci-limits-inside-pete-
stetina-and-ian-boswells-super-light-mt-washington-hillclimb-bike-builds >>>
Lots of fun information here on the old records, the new records, and
peoples opinion of what in tommy's opinion is in a state (New Hampshire) >>> that "is mostly flat"...
"?I think it is the hardest mountain in the U.S. Maybe even one of the
hardest in the world,? [Peter] Stetina told Cycling Weekly. ?Meter for
meter, it is harder than the Zoncolan or Angliru.? Women?s record holder >>> Illi Gardner echoed the sentiment, saying: ?It?s harder than almost
every climb I?ve done.?
What we DO know is that Flunky coulodn't climb an ant hill. He rides
"virtuaol rides" and claims that he is coming in 2nd in virtual races
as if any self respecting racer would be involved in a "virtual" race.
And Flunky is attempting now to tell us that the company he works for
is at the top of Mt. Washington and not down on the perfectly flat
ground on the St. Lawrence seaway.
Flunky is just thrilled to death that a world class loser like Gavin
Newscum is going to run for Pr4esident in two years. Let's see how
that goes for the man who did 2, 200 mile rides filled with climbing
with an average speed of 20 mph. Tell us, Flunky, were those also
virtual?
From St Lawrence Seaway to the closest point in Massachusetts is over
a hundred miles.
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