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    and that theyre only fast on teh flat - is this true?
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      CommentAuthorPapa44
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2009
     
    correct. stand at the bottom of pentonville rd and see the truth stretch out before you
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    thats not a hill ffs lol
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      CommentAuthorangeleyes
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2009
     
    And what if it is , and what if it isn't?
    If you fast on the hills generally means you have great stamina ,running high gear,and low weight=no muscles , which in turn means on a sprint or on a straight you will eat dust by the heavier but stronger/lower gear guys.And since London is more or less flat most couriers adapt their bikes and their bodies to the terrain, don't mean they are inherently slower or faster than any other couriers or cyclists across the world.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2009
     
    :cheer:
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      CommentAuthorPapa44
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2009 edited
     
    doink
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      CommentAuthorThe Pistette
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2009 edited
     
    When couriering in Glasgow you have to learn to get fast on the hills pretty darn quickly.
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2009
     
    Hampstead Road - all the way to the top: do-able, but testing. And in the South the climb from Gypsy Hill to Crystal Palace.
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2009
     
    Don Wiley...winner of the BEC hill climb...whilst working as a full time courier....
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2009
     
    Oi Lee,next time you're down I'll take you up the five hills in north London.
    Swains,Highgate,Muswell,West Hill and er..cant remember the other one.I'll wait for you at the top!!:cool:
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2009
     
    if you feel like changing the thread title to couriers who live in hackney can't climb hills it would be much more accurate.
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2009
     
    Overdrive....I think you mean Camden Road.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2009
     
    he he,that's a piddly liddle ting.
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      CommentAuthorj001
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2009
     
    Lee, i'll show you guys some hills in paris next weekend ...
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    i dont care what any of you think, i still think that st james st is a absolute killer......they should hand out copies of the evening standard when u get to the summit to stuff down your top
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    "Oi Lee,next time you're down I'll take you up the five hills in north London.
    Swains,Highgate,Muswell,West Hill "

    I bet they're like five speed bumps or something
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      CommentAuthorvoid
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2009
     
    Mount Pleasant. And Eyre Street Hill.:winkkiss:
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    Eyre Street Hill? A hill in the street? I don't deal with hills that aren't part of a mountain.
    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2009
     
    OI sleepy, none of it!!! ;)

    J001-Yea Paris has so big ole hills, climbed a rather huge one last time I was there. Long as f##k. Cant remember the name of it tho
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2009
     
    stamford "hill" :crazy: bwahahhahahah
    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2009
     
    lol
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2009
     
    Ludgate"hill"
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      CommentAuthorThe.Pike
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2009
     
    the stairs @ my house HILL! fuckin nancys
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      CommentAuthorj001
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    @ Rapattack:
    that'll be either belleville or menilmonmtant ... fucking long non stop ....hills
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    I can get up hills easier than I can get up stairs... seriously, both lifts broke in the building that one of our biggest clients is situated in, and I had to pick up from them 5 times... fucks sake! They're only on the third floor, but you have to go in at level -1, and before level 0 (ground) there's LG (lower ground) so you actually go up 5 flights not just 3. I started off running up the stairs because I'm impatient. I stopped when I was totally caned and out of breath, thinking I'd got pretty far and was on the second floor, but when I looked up I hadn't even reached ground floor yet. Strange how I can ride 50 miles and still feel pretty good, but if I walk up some stairs I'm fuct. I thinnk the future of messenger racing is stairs alleycats. Or is that too cruel?
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      CommentAuthorBuffalo Bill
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009 edited
     
    There aren't any proper hills in London or Paris, you utter f***ing lightweights.

    This is a proper hill.

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      CommentAuthorj001
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    where's that?
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      CommentAuthor_targetbot
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    It's on Mars, and next month I will be there.
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    It's in Frog Land. I always say that France is wasted on the french.
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      CommentAuthorj001
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    agree
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    that hill isnt even steep
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    the only time london couriers have something 'steep' is when they make a cup of tea
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    sad brummie bastard- wanna prove yourself on ditchling beacon?
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    Not steep? The part near the observatory is 15%, but it's the 20-odd kms at an average of 9% to get there that really kill you.
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    Dat nuh 'hill'

    That's a mere traffic calming measure for me
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    I think I can hear Bad Man coming through....
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2009
     
    So, anyway - what's that huge mountain in Birmingham called?
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    Oh that. Well to simulate hardcore hill climbing, at home I have a set of rollers on a 45 degree slope. I use these to train on for a few hours before work each day. I'm thinking of getting a turbo trainer with adjustable resistance though - then I'd be able to increase the resistance, to stop me from spinning out. My legs are already too strong for the 60:11 gear that I'm running and I can't seem to find a smaller sprocket
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      CommentAuthorj001
    • CommentTimeMay 2nd 2009
     
    and that's why your riding paris to amsterdam... the hills, innit?
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    nah man, paris-amsterdam is just a recovery ride. we were gonna do it in about 7 days but that would be too easy so we thought it best to do it in 7 hours
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    My favourite mounds of joy I've discovered on the Knowledge -

    The Swains Lane/Highgate/West Hill combo is a dog.

    Valleyfield Road between Leigham Court and Valley Road in Streatham ain't pretty.

    Muswell Hill I hate like a genital disease and there's not even anything good at the top of it.

    Haverstock/Rosslyn Hill/Hampstead High St's not so bad, neither's Fitzjohn's Ave and Heath St come to that, but East Heath Rd is pretty rotten.

    Any approach from any angle to Crystal Palace, apart from maybe Westwood Hill, which is a little more agreeable.

    But the worst by far, the steaming great turd with icing on the top, I'll give you Westwood Park in Honor Oak. It's round the back of the Horniman museum and you'd have absolutely no reason to go there unless you lived there, or were attempting to become a cabbie judas. The above mentioned hills might leave me with legs like bags of wet sand, a heart like a fucked clock and a face like an aubergine by the top of them but I'm a stubborn enough fucker to climb them. This bastard's not very long and there's a fairly relaxed approach to its foothills but jumping Christ, it's steep. I hate it so much I want to squat in the middle of it and do a big shit on its stupid tarmac face.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2009
     
    "But the worst by far, the steaming great turd with icing on the top, I'll give you Westwood Park in Honor Oak"


    I had the pleasure of this one a few times when I lived in Nunhead for 6 months, running 52:16 it was a real bastard!
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      CommentAuthorPapa44
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2009
     
    having yet to get out of W1-WC1 i have no idea what these "hills" are. are they anything like the mythical "mountain of roseberry"?
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2009
     
    Did I just miss a French cyclist who doesn't recognise Mont Ventoux?
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    Err. Yeah. Like I said, wasted on the french.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2009
     
    "It's round the back of the Horniman museum and you'd have absolutely no reason to go there unless you lived there,"

    mate- the horniman museum is awesome and not just for the name.
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    I was referring to the hill, not the fine repository of ludicrous stuffed walruses. Ooh, you've made me want to go there now.
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    Ventoux is a molehill
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      CommentAuthorj001
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2009
     
    i'm not french by the way ...
    oi, Lee, i'll take you guys to menilmontant on saturday night after a few pints with jboule and the rest of the guys...

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