Regarding this post about a steepish climb in my near future, the following conversation took place.
- Fearless Leader Joe:
- You can handle that. It looks vertical on a map, but for 20m I bet that horrible one in Devon was worse – the one that I said as we were freewheeling down, “thank goodness we’re not going up this one”, to which you replied “Wait!”, and then we went up it on the other side.
- Guy Jean:
- Did we really only have that conversation once?

I do wonder if that’s the part he’s talking about, although that’s only 9% for a rise of 90m. There were definitely some shorter climbs that were steeper …
“The 183km stage from Onda was settled on the steep ramps of the final climb: 4km of roughly-surfaced road with gradients that averaged 12% but frequently topped 20%.”
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