http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "HELL OF THE NORTH RIDE" en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:35:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4560 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:38:28 +0000 PS 4560@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, there are some steep hills round Cairnpapple. Kingscavil, up to Beecraigs, etc. etc. Short sharp ones that rear up at 16% - 18%. I did a few of them today at a real crawl. Some good views at the top, and boy have you earned them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4554 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:10:02 +0000 gembo 4554@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can go round the Pentlands on road or on off-road routes dependent on how much traffic you like but my favourite is Cairnpapple Hill</p> <p><a href="http://www.cyberscotia.com/cairnpapple/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyberscotia.com/cairnpapple/</a></p> <p>From Balerno spin down to Kirkliston on a Sunday morning (essential for next bit as is rat run on every other day) - take backroad to Linlithgow, then cycle over the top through Beecraigs Country Park. Cairnpapple is alleged as burial ground of ancient kings of Lothian and view is stoopendous./ Recreated burial mound - ties in nicely to fake stone cicle on very steep descent to bathgate. From there if you have tie go to The Pyramids (if lucky the pink sheep will be grazing) then take the Country Park route to Livingston. Return east through livy seems to work better for the bikes on the roundabouts.</p> <p>My mate Mitch did this once when he had at least 7 pinta at a Ceilidh we were at the night before. I count this as the greatest sporting achievement I have witnessed. </p> <p>We did this route as etape training and I found the hills of the etape to be quite flat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4531 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:08:13 +0000 chdot 4531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perhaps we need to devise some 'heaven of the north' rides/routes(?)</p> <p>Tours of Edinburgh and the Lothians?</p> <p>I have a personal one that goes from Edinburgh to Midlothian on less than 'established' tracks. </p> <p>There's some pavé just inside East Lothian too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4402 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:43:35 +0000 chdot 4402@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not to be confused with <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher">'frit', an unusual Lincolnshire dialect abbreviation of 'frightened' which Mrs Thatcher evidently recalled from childhood</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4401 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:23 +0000 Min 4401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Free beer and frites for each rider"</p> <p>"Frites" !!?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4400 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:31:17 +0000 chdot 4400@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anth is Rapha <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=512">trendy</a>? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4399 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:26:51 +0000 chdot 4399@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"bless their cotton socks"</p> <p>Won't be ordinary cotton... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4398 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:24:46 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 4398@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Awww, bless their cotton socks.</p> <p>At least I presume they're blessed. Possibly using the blood of 100 virgins sacrificed during a solar eclipse given the price of them... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=558#post-4396 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:54:44 +0000 chdot 4396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm</p> <p>That'll be London then...</p> <p><a href="http://www.rapha.cc/hell-of-the-north-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.rapha.cc/hell-of-the-north-1</a> </p>