gyorgyigabor Posted October 13, 2016 Share Hello ! In August I cycled the World's hardest climb and I've just finished editing a trailer video. Mauna Kea is the most difficult road bike cycling climb of the World based on the data of salite.ch and climbbybike.com, the two most serious cycling climbs's collections. It's an epic climb, a monster ! Mauna Kea has 2 ascents: the Hilo side is harder than the Kona side ! Both starts by the Pacific Ocean (Big island, Hawaii) and ends just at the top of the 4205 m high peak. The 1st 50 km long section is not too hard: the average steepness is below 5% (for more than 2000 m heightdifference), but the last 20 kms has 2000 m heightdifference that means 10% steepness; the maximum grade is 17-20%. Other difficulty is the thin air above ca. 3300-3500 m (at the top there is 40% less oxygen than by the ocean) and a 7 km long gravel-sandy section above 2800 m. At last there is another thing to made it tough: there is only one place to get water, buy some snack, drink: the Visitor Center after ca. 55 kms at the height of 2800 m. That's why that when I left the ocean, at sunrise I carried ca. 5 liters of water. In the last hour of the daylight several cars go up to the summit to enjoy the sunset. Because I cycled all of the paved climbs finishing above 2000m in the Alps, Pyrenées and Canary islands and cycled up to Pico Veleta, I had to say that it is really the toughest cycling climb of the Earth; it was harder than any other climbs that I cycled before, much harder than Monte Zoncolan, Grosser Oscheniksee, Speikkogel, Angliru, etc. Have pleasure with it ! ( facebook.com/cycling.high )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIHwZ_6bx4 Milkman, nathrix, Thor Buttox and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulse Posted October 14, 2016 Share Wow, really cool! You are blessed to have been able to ride in all those great locations gyorgyigabor and seven 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seven Posted October 14, 2016 Share Awesome! gyorgyigabor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyorgyigabor Posted October 20, 2016 Share Wow, really cool! You are blessed to have been able to ride in all those great locationsThanks It was on my bucket list, because I knew how wonderful and great place it is, but it's true that there are more beautiful places in the Big island, but for a cycloclimbing addict (like me) it was a must Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyorgyigabor Posted October 20, 2016 Share Awesome!Thank you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathrix Posted October 21, 2016 Share Awesome! Shared on twitter @mybicyclesafety who generate Global Awareness, Bicycle Discussions, Cycling Safety, City by City Events, etc. gyorgyigabor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100Tours Posted October 21, 2016 Share So in 2012 I rode one of the biggest descents (really if you find yourself at one of the worlds biggest hills the best thing to do is to ride down it). I think it counts as the worlds number 2 hill. This is the descent from Mt Everest national park gate at 5200m in Tibet down through Nyalam (the "gates of hell") and into Nepal. you end up at about 700m above sealevel at the bottom. You can't do it the other way unless you've acclimatised properly - even by car you are advised to spend the night half way up to get used to the thin air. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3QJHvOVPu6ohttp://2wheelsintibet.blogspot.co.za gyorgyigabor, nathrix and Milkman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100Tours Posted October 21, 2016 Share Being that you're next to Everest the headwinds are marked in the map - they permanently blow up towards you (and towrds the big summits) between 3500 and 4500 m. Also remembering the trip there were shops in the villages along the way, but the only thing at the top was a park ranger station and a KNOCKSHOP. EmptyB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowbee Posted October 21, 2016 Share How on earth do you fund all these trips ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100Tours Posted October 21, 2016 Share How on earth do you fund all these trips ?perhaps easier than you think. a week in France or Belgium visiting the TdF or doing a few spring classics shouldn't cost much more than R25 - R30k, flights included. It takes some planning, but highly worth it. The cost of our tour de france visit in 2013 was R19000pp plus some meals. see here. http://100toursdefrance.blogspot.co.za Edited October 21, 2016 by 100Tours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmptyB Posted October 21, 2016 Share Hello ! In August I cycled the World's hardest climb and I've just finished editing a trailer video. Mauna Kea is the most difficult road bike cycling climb of the World based on the data of salite.ch and climbbybike.com, the two most serious cycling climbs's collections. It's an epic climb, a monster ! Mauna Kea has 2 ascents: the Hilo side is harder than the Kona side ! Both starts by the Pacific Ocean (Big island, Hawaii) and ends just at the top of the 4205 m high peak. The 1st 50 km long section is not too hard: the average steepness is below 5% (for more than 2000 m heightdifference), but the last 20 kms has 2000 m heightdifference that means 10% steepness; the maximum grade is 17-20%. Other difficulty is the thin air above ca. 3300-3500 m (at the top there is 40% less oxygen than by the ocean) and a 7 km long gravel-sandy section above 2800 m. At last there is another thing to made it tough: there is only one place to get water, buy some snack, drink: the Visitor Center after ca. 55 kms at the height of 2800 m. That's why that when I left the ocean, at sunrise I carried ca. 5 liters of water. In the last hour of the daylight several cars go up to the summit to enjoy the sunset. Because I cycled all of the paved climbs finishing above 2000m in the Alps, Pyrenées and Canary islands and cycled up to Pico Veleta, I had to say that it is really the toughest cycling climb of the Earth; it was harder than any other climbs that I cycled before, much harder than Monte Zoncolan, Grosser Oscheniksee, Speikkogel, Angliru, etc. Have pleasure with it ! ( facebook.com/cycling.high ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIHwZ_6bx4Respect! Bit above my fighting weight at this stage... nathrix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pall Catt Posted October 21, 2016 Share perhaps easier than you think. a week in France or Belgium visiting the TdF or doing a few spring classics shouldn't cost much more than R25 - R30k, flights included. It takes some planning, but highly worth it. The cost of our tour de france visit in 2013 was R19000pp plus some meals. see here. http://100toursdefrance.blogspot.co.za Agreed. I managed to complete a 3 month bicycle tour in USA on R25,000 (flights excluded but this did include the cost of buying a bicycle there) in 2012. Time is usually the biggest limiting factor, but if you can find the time (in this case I was between jobs) then you really don't need bucketloads of money and just have to be resourceful. https://potholesbecomepersonal.wordpress.com/ Edit: Granted, the exchange rate was way better back then. Edited October 21, 2016 by Pall Catt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtypot Posted October 21, 2016 Share Wow! That's hectic!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baracuda Posted October 21, 2016 Share How on earth do you fund all these trips ? They not that expensive in comparison to many of the local multi-day MTB events.Last year we went to the Dolomites in northern Italy for two weeks, flew Emerites to Milan, hired a car, stayed in amazing AirBnBs in the mountain villages, cost was under R20-25k per person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowbee Posted October 21, 2016 Share NOW this is inspirational ! 100Tours 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100Tours Posted October 21, 2016 Share I think Slowbee has a trip in his future gyorgyigabor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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