Name Your Hill.

[MomOnBike]

Going to work it's called The Commute. One grind uphill 'til I get to a screaming downhill (up to 30mph in 2 blocks) that is interrupted by the busiest street in town. "But Mommy! I don't wanna brake!" screams my inner 2-yo.

Going home there is a block-long hill that some days I'd swear is vertical. I've logged as low as 3.2 mph on that section. When done with that, its downhill rollers all the way home. Wheeee! I haven't named the hill, but it has my number.

[nicolezoie]

I wish I knew the grade percent of the hills I commute on daily. My guess is they're between 5-8%, but they're fairly short - no more than a mile or two.

I haven't given names to the hills, but my weekday commute includes a hill that just goes on and on. At times when I was in better shape, I could make it up the first part of the hill at a steady 8mph+, but these days I'm lucky if I can keep it between 6-8mph. That same hill, going downhill, I don't dare look down at my speedo only because I'm going 45mph+ and the cars don't care that I'm going as fast as they are. The hill has two parts - the first part is the 6-8mph part, and the second part winds thru a neighborhood but steadily climbs higher and higher until I'm at the top of one of the highest hills in town. It's quite a spectacular view from up there.

My weekend commute includes a hill that starts out in a false flat, but then I hit the true climb. Usually I'm able to do that climb at 7-8 mph, then it flattens out into a brief false flat, then the final portion of the climb I'm able to do around 8 mph. The other hill in my weekend commute is probably one of the steepest climbs in town, but it's less than 1/4 mile long and hardly worth mentioning because of how short it is. The downhill portion of that climb is fast enough that I leave my lighting rig on my bike year around so cars don't decide to pull out of the residential street near the bottom.

[Bron]

Not a hill, but the railway bridge is a pain - I can´t avoid it as I live on one side and work on the other. It´s windy on the top and there is always a traffic jam of r-e-a-l-l-y--s-l-o-w people on the cycle path.

[Jolt]

Not on a commuting or errand route, but on a ride I did this past Sunday and will probably do again: a large part of the ride was on a road called Brigham Hill Road, which has a long climb followed by a long descent (the fun part!). The climb is pretty tough, especially coming back home. I've decided to start calling that road Brutal Hill Road!

[Blueberry]

which hills these are?? As a fellow bull city resident, inquiring minds want to know....

My current 2 nemeses are:

751 from Erwin Rd. up to Kerley road - not that steep, but a b!tch

Couch Mountain Climb on Cornwallis - Double UGH!

CA

[spokewench]

I like hills so I don't have any I really hate except one! It is a hill on our bike trail system in town. It really is not all that bad, short, but pretty steep. It is just right in the beginning of my commute to work, never warmed up, don't want to ride that hard that early in my ride to work, cold as h*$# in the winter, and don't really like to ride hard on a commute ride - so it is just a pain!

[10ch]

which hills these are?? As a fellow bull city resident, inquiring minds want to know....

Fellow Bull Citizen, eh? Awesome!

"Dead Man's Hill" is in Maple Wood cemetery (go in main entrance off Duke University Rd.), bear left at the circle you come to, go down a hill, take first "road" on left and then take any hill option you see to get out of the cemetery... the one I usually take is the shorter, but steeper one on the far left.

"The Last Hoorah" is off of Mossdale Ave, which is off of University Dr. There are two ways to do it. The hard way is to take Victor on the down hill, which puts you right at the bottom of the climb on Sherbon. The easy way is to go all the way down Mossdale til you get to Sherbon. Bomb down the hill and use that as momentum to climb the other side. The down side is that Victor lets out at the bottom of the hill, so you have to make sure no cars are coming b/c you'll have a lot of speed coming down the hill.

"The Tightrope" is the short stretch of road from turning onto Chapel Hill Street from University Dr. until you reach that church that I'm blanking on the name of... it's where I vote. Anyway, it's before the road widens a bit and before you reach Cornwallis.

"The @#$%^ you ALL turn!" is on University Drive. I have to cross over to turn left onto Mossdale Ave. Crossing over traffic on University isn't bad at all in the mornings, but it's a #$%^ in afternoon/evening.

Are you doing the ride of silence tonight?

[stacie]

Embrace your hills. Hill work here consists of riding back and forth over a bridge. I know every shard of glass, pebble and crack by the end of hill day. s

[Blueberry]

Are you doing the ride of silence tonight?

Sadly, no. I'm still at work. *&$% law firm....