When I coached the high school mountain bike team, if a team training ride had less than 100ft of climbing per mile, we called that "flat". Our elite riders were twin brothers, Evan and Matt Garrison, and that 100ft/mile was what I called "the Garrison Ratio".
Seriously though, that amount of climbing in a day is a pretty serious. Depending on your constitution, the altitude may pose an additional challenge. 10,000 feet of climbing in 110 miles can definitely be done on a Rivendell. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 10:18:06 AM UTC-8 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > I am not saying I am committing to this. But here I sit in my dreamy > Michigan living room, watching my woods with my cardinals and blue jays at > their feeders in a perfect snow globe scene. This is no time for biking. > This is time for bike adventure planning. > > And I have seen this name Triple Bypass come up more than once. At over > 10,000 feet of climbing in 110 miles in Colorado, it sounds rather > miserable. But it also sounds like a bucket list thing. Who has done it? > What is it like? Is it suffering, start to finish? Can a Riv reasonably do > it? I love an adventure and I love good scenery, but maybe there are better > experiences closer to home. > > I figured I’d ask, in case anyone has done it on a Rivendell and would > like to chat. And anyway, what else do you have to do? It’s JANUARY. > Leah > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e698fc02-597e-479b-9054-48a5065193c9n%40googlegroups.com.
