Fargo Street in Los Angeles is famous for its annual hill climbing event. 500+ feet long and 33% continuous grade, makes it one of the steepest streets in the US!
The video below was shot just last week, after almost 1.5 years since the first and only other time I tried the Fargo climb. I just turned 55 in January and, admittedly, I am a bit rusty, and was basically trying to get a "feel" for it again, so these were more training climbs than anything else.
As is common, the video camera cannot do justice to the sheer wall-like steepness of this monster hill, but it still gives a farily good sense if it in sections.
The first part you see me going straight up, on my 24 MUni, and then after a while I started angling a bit, but much more diagonal than horizontal traversing. I thought it might make the climb a bit easier, but it didn't!
The guy breathing hard is the Fargo street resident who used my camera to film me, and was only *walking* behind me, and pretty slowly at that! The second training climb towards the end of the video is a side view, showing me riding straight up. I have a LOT more training to do!
The video below was shot just last week, after almost 1.5 years since the first and only other time I tried the Fargo climb. I just turned 55 in January and, admittedly, I am a bit rusty, and was basically trying to get a "feel" for it again, so these were more training climbs than anything else.
As is common, the video camera cannot do justice to the sheer wall-like steepness of this monster hill, but it still gives a farily good sense if it in sections.
The first part you see me going straight up, on my 24 MUni, and then after a while I started angling a bit, but much more diagonal than horizontal traversing. I thought it might make the climb a bit easier, but it didn't!
The guy breathing hard is the Fargo street resident who used my camera to film me, and was only *walking* behind me, and pretty slowly at that! The second training climb towards the end of the video is a side view, showing me riding straight up. I have a LOT more training to do!