Climbers

You need to go on some rides with us. There are Berkeley and Santa Cruz
unicycling groups that are fairly active with muni and big wheel rides.
What kind of unicycle are you riding?

A bunch of us rode the 100K route with 4000 feet of climbing at
'Strawberry Fields Forever' (http://www.strawberryfields.org/)
yesterday. We were all on 36" inch wheels.

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Hey thanks for the reply. My 36 is in Kauai. Here in SF I use a 28. I
would have a very difficult time climbing SF hills on my coker. I'll
bring the 36 back to SF in August and I would love to do some rides in
Berkeley and Santa Cruz

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A couple of Berkeley guys did some off-roading on fire roads in the East
Bay on Sunday, it would have been fine territory for a 28". (We had a
Coker and a 29er).

See http://berkeleyunicycling.org/.

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ill be climbing hills today. it is actually what ill be working on the
next few days.

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No hill climbing today. Did that on Saturday and my legs are still
sore. Not sore from the climbing, but sore from the descending. Did
one vertical mile.

It is good to like climbing hills. It differentiates you from all the
kids in the forum. Kids today are lazy and don't appreciate hill
climbing. They also don't appreciate having to walk half a mile on a
dirt road to catch the bus and they trespass on other people's lawns.

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john_childs said:

Kids today are lazy and don't appreciate hill climbing. They also
don't appreciate having to walk half a mile on a dirt road to catch the
bus and they trespass on other people's lawns.

And it wont be that long before they're running the country.

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Hey, I did some fun climbing on Sunday afternoon. 1200 feet to start off
with, followed by a couple of descents and ascents, maybe another 500
feet in total. Somehow when it's on proper off road, it seems much
harder than road riding that amount of ascent. I was a bit knacked
though, after racing road bikes on Saturday, road biking is just so so
much harder exercise than unicycling.

Joe

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Not today, had to catch up on work that I missed from riding this climb
on Friday, http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61011 ,
Climbing is cool, especially if your fortunate to climb high elevation.
Cheers.

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I ride a lot at lunch time, and I have about a 3 mile loop that I ride
once or twice a week that has a good amount of hills.
(http://www.usatf.org/routes/map/ says 3.1 miles, 248 feet climb, 520
feet total elevation change...) Two sections I have yet to
successfully finish... both are right at the edge of my abilities...
One is a dirt road with a lot of rocks... I always hit something and
UPD...

The second section is pavement, and at the end of my ride... Its
steeper than the dirt road, and I am usually so wasted by the time I
get there I screw up and UPD... Or I just flat run out of gas...

I ride on a good old Torker DX 24...

One of these days I am going to ride the whole thing... I feel sorta
weak on hills... so I figure the best way to get better is to keep
doing them... 😄

Keld

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Does it count if you did it on a bike? I tell ya, the downhills were
certainly more fun!

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Last Monday I took my Coker to Auburn and rode up Old Foresthill Road,
something I've never done. All my mileage training for the Tahoe ride
has been nearly flat (which Sacramento is), and I needed some hills.
That was a bit much to bite off though. 1000' up in about 3 miles, most
of it constant! My total up was maybe 1200, then I turned around and
rode down a much steeper (paved) road, and down the Clementine MUni
trail. A fun ride, but I was sore until Friday! I need a bunch of
smaller hills but there are hardly any nearby...

john_childs said:

Kids today are lazy and don't appreciate hill climbing. They also don't
appreciate having to walk half a mile on a dirt road to catch the bus
and they trespass on other people's lawns.

I used to have to walk a mile to school, in the snow. So I trespassed on
somebody's lawn to make it a little shorter! :p

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