Think I need to get over to Austria this summer...

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or with no braking...

 
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I'd love to find a vid of someone who'd filmed it with something like a Garmin Virb that overlays GPS telemetry (speed, altitude, riders Heart Rate...) on the video... would be good to see what speeds actually were hit!
 
Sounds like a perfect summer project for you, Mark!
 
I've spent the last 3 years on a diet and riding my bike in an attempt to actually get fit enough to go over to the alps and spend a couple of weeks riding there - sadly, I'm still too fat and too unfit to cope with hills that go up at 7-14% for 20km or more... downhills aren't a problem, but the ups... :puke:
 
Don't they run the ski lifts during the summer so the fatties less fit can get to the tops easily?
 
ski lifts go to the top of hills or piste's rather than road passes though... I want to get over there and do a few of the classic road routes - loops that join up a couple or the hills... as I am at the moment, it'd be more like pitch up at the bottom of the hill at 8am, grind uphill on gearing liberated from my mountainbike for 4 hours, then have lunch at the top and roll back down to the campervan for an afternoon nap... not quite what I had in mind.
 
There's a chap we meet up with most years in Crete who is in his late 60s or early 70s (but fitter than a buthcher's dog's personal trainer!) and he cycles up into the Levka Ori (White Mountains) on a daily basis. In 30°+. There are a couple of operators there that organise bike and rider transport up into the mountains for the downhill only brigade, there may well be similar services in Austria.
 
downhill only tends to be the province of mountain bikers... road cyclists are an odd bunch, we tend to actually actively seek out uphills to beast ourselves on. It's a peculiar and unexplainable branch of masochism that I have no rational explaination for, other than the standard "banging your head against a brick wall argument" - that it feels great when you stop.
 
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