Dirty Dozen hills:

Sycamore->Canton->Boustead->Welsh

Canton, with 34×26 gearing isn’t so bad, given you stay to the right, out of the, umm, grass growing between the cobbles. It is still silly steep, though, and I imagine doing it in a crowd of people is challenging. A good link-up to assess my condition for the ride would be Center->Ravine->Berryhill->High->Logan->Suffolk->Sycamore->Berry/Holt/Eleanor.

Oh, and an observation: the southern hills feel significantly more bike-unfriendly than the northern ones, due to narrower streets and more traffic.

Posted on 5 October 2008