Zog The Undeniable wrote:
Nick Kew wrote:

... when you're pedalling hard in low gear on the downhill!

Had to cross quite a lot of open moorland today (including -
naturally - four river valleys, three of them taking me
rapidly from 200m+ down to not much above sea level and
back again). The valleys were very pleasant, with a
strongish but manageable wind. Up on top I was blowing
around like a leaf! Took a scenic route home, but refrained
from going up the track to Princetown (at over 400m) - which
would have been a normal version of that route.


Pork Hill (Princetown to Tavistock) is the best road descent. Ever.
Someone from St Budeaux CC claimed to have hit 72mph down there; I got
up to 56mph but then caught up with a car!!!

It's one I regularly do (usually up the hill offroad, down on it).
But it's not too bad on the uphill, either: the road itself or
various other routes don't feel like the not-far-off-400m ascent
shown on the OS map. Except when it's as windy as Monday.

OTOH, the river valleys around here are always hard work.

(BTW, first time I came down that hill this year, I had a strong
tailwind. Go figu-)

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