Can anyone provide a brief list of some graded climbs in England, Scotland and Wales, please? I tackled a few hills some 30 years ago (as a tourist), which I thought were quite tough - would they be a challenge to a racing cyclist (at racing speeds)? Examples include Berriedale Brae, Carter Bar, Drumochter. I used granny gears and went very slooooowly!
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You can use the Strava website to find categorised segments. You'll have to register for an account and I'm not sure how "official" the categories are.
- Go to Strava.com
- Register or sign in Click on "Explore" menu
- Find the region you're interested in using the search box.
- The map will then show all segments registered in Strava.
- There is a slider along the top that allows you to filter out various categories, so you can see just categorised climbs.
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Here is an explanation of how the climbs are categorised (essentially using the UCI calculation, but ignoring the subjective difficulty). This is what the segment explorer looks like - my only complaint is quite a few of the stepper segments are unsuitable to road-bikes, but this is hard to determine short of using street-view to check– dbrCommented Jul 13, 2012 at 13:02
Here is a guardian article about the top 10 climbs in UK :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/jul/13/top-10-uk-cycle-climbs
answered Jul 13, 2012 at 9:04
