Over the Hill - Col du Burgundy

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Despite being overweight and overage, I managed to crawl up Burgundy St
Heidelberg on the trusty Trek 1200 this morning - wished I had a third cog
on the front but got up anyway and only went down to the 8th cog at the
back. Left all the other old farts behind (walking). Now I'm wondering
what are the best times people have done on this road and where is the
acknowledged starting point (last set of traffic lights before the top
maybe?)?

Despite being overweight and overage, I managed to crawl up Burgundy St
Heidelberg on the trusty Trek 1200 this morning - wished I had a third cog
on the front but got up anyway and only went down to the 8th cog at the
back. Left all the other old farts behind (walking). Now I'm wondering
what are the best times people have done on this road and where is the
acknowledged starting point (last set of traffic lights before the top
maybe?)?Haven't timed it, but did hit 30 something chasing GPL :)...also discovered by max HR in the process

Despite being overweight and overage, I managed to crawl up Burgundy St
Heidelberg on the trusty Trek 1200 this morning - wished I had a third cog
on the front but got up anyway and only went down to the 8th cog at the
back. Left all the other old farts behind (walking). Now I'm wondering
what are the best times people have done on this road and where is the
acknowledged starting point (last set of traffic lights before the top
maybe?)?http://www.cycle2max.com/sites/caffebici.nsf/docid/2A2E4A55D73C5B4EE92573D40079C26A?OpenDocument
Have a look here, there may be another name for it but i couldn't find one for
that name. You may even want to add this one in yourself :)

On 2008-03-23, essendon93 (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Claude Wrote:
>> Despite being overweight and overage, I managed to crawl up Burgundy St
>> Heidelberg on the trusty Trek 1200 this morning - wished I had a third
>> cog
>> on the front but got up anyway and only went down to the 8th cog at the
>> back. Left all the other old farts behind (walking). Now I'm wondering
>> what are the best times people have done on this road and where is the
>> acknowledged starting point (last set of traffic lights before the top
>> maybe?)?
>
> Haven't timed it, but did hit 30 something chasing GPL :)...also
> discovered by max HR in the process

I got up to 10 once :)

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Despite being overweight and overage, I managed to crawl up Burgundy St
Heidelberg on the trusty Trek 1200 this morning - wished I had a third cog
on the front but got up anyway and only went down to the 8th cog at the
back. Left all the other old farts behind (walking). Now I'm wondering
what are the best times people have done on this road and where is the
acknowledged starting point (last set of traffic lights before the top
maybe?)?

Its really too short to claim any cycle2max times on it. Have a look at Hodgson Street Kew (Reverse Walmer), if you want to compare times on a similar length climb. http://tinyurl.com/23h979

Its really too short to claim any cycle2max times on it. Have a look at Hodgson Street Kew (Reverse Walmer), if you want to compare times on a similar length climb. http://tinyurl.com/23h979

Oh bollox, there's goes my chance to claim Short Street in Northcote. No it's not just a pun on the name either.

TimC wrote:
> On 2008-03-23, essendon93 (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> Claude Wrote:
>>> Despite being overweight and overage, I managed to crawl up Burgundy St
>>> Heidelberg on the trusty Trek 1200 this morning - wished I had a third
>>> cog
>>> on the front but got up anyway and only went down to the 8th cog at the
>>> back. Left all the other old farts behind (walking). Now I'm wondering
>>> what are the best times people have done on this road and where is the
>>> acknowledged starting point (last set of traffic lights before the top
>>> maybe?)?
>> Haven't timed it, but did hit 30 something chasing GPL :)...also
>> discovered by max HR in the process
>
> I got up to 10 once :)
>
I got up it.
With a flat :)