{"id":290,"date":"2020-02-29T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T11:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wheelygood.info\/?p=290"},"modified":"2020-05-12T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:03:01","slug":"neville-street-simon-warren-cycling-climbs-of-the-north-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelygood.info\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Neville Street &#8211; Simon Warren Cycling Climbs of the North East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>SW Rating: 1\/10<\/li><li>Wheelygood Rating: Easy<\/li><li>Length: 0.19 miles<\/li><li>Avg. gradient: 7%<\/li><li>Strava Segment: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/segments\/19602172\">https:\/\/www.strava.com\/segments\/19602172<\/a><\/li><li>Route:    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plotaroute.com\/route\/1024660\">https:\/\/www.plotaroute.com\/route\/1024660<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"405\" width=\"960\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/segments\/19602172\/embed\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>So, you&#8217;d like some experience of cobbled climbs, but Belgium is too far away and everything around Halifax is too hard (I&#8217;m looking at you Trooper Lane and Shibden Wall), then here&#8217;s a starting point.  Not long and not too steep \u2026 but you are likely to have an audience so any mistakes will be laughed at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against this background, Dr Dave and I tried it anyway.  Once I&#8217;d got away from the stares from people who were wondering why I was talking to my bike (the GoPro is a bit tricky to reach under the handlebars, but it <em>is<\/em> voice controlled), we were straight into it.  It&#8217;s a simple one this \u2026 well, it is for the main event.  Cobbles, laid in a straight line, directly up the side of the hill.  The 7% average doesn&#8217;t quite do this justice as it includes a flat section at the top and the actual cobbles are more in the 10% region.  Not easy, but not daft steep, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing I found here, much more than the steeper and nastier cobbled climbs, was that I really had to keep my head up to look where I was going: the additional speed meant is was easy for me to drift across the carriageway without really noticing.  The harder climbs are such that you&#8217;ve just got to do what you&#8217;ve got to do simply to keep moving and the traffic respects that (once they&#8217;ve stopped laughing, of course!)  Here, the expectation is that you&#8217;ll be fine to make it up the hill and so a bit less quarter is given.  This is also true of the residents who will notice if you&#8217;re weaving about\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once at the top of the lumpy bit you&#8217;ll need to take care as there&#8217;s a junction at which you do <em>not<\/em> have priority.  Gan canny, because, again, the traffic won&#8217;t be expecting you to be there &#8211; the students don&#8217;t tend to come this way and so cyclists are somewhat rarer.  Once you&#8217;ve survived the, slightly odd, junction arrangement, it&#8217;s just a pedal up the, wider and more major, road to the top taking care with the road surface and traffic calming before you can claim your prize.  Pro tip: don&#8217;t try to claim said prize whilst at the traffic lights, because you&#8217;ll make precisely no friends for holding people up, especially if you&#8217;ve not noticed that it&#8217;s a one-way street and the right hand lane is for turning right\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assuming you&#8217;ve survived (the environment is by far your largest threat) then tick this one off and move away to somewhere else whilst your luck&#8217;s in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there are any other road climbs you&#8217;d like me to take on, the more ridiculous the better, then please send me a message on my FaceBook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wheelygoodcycling\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wheelygoodcycling\/<\/a> or email me on <a href=\"mailto:wheelygoodmail@gmail.com\">wheelygoodmail@gmail.com<\/a> and let me know\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube\"><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Neville Street - Simon Warren Cycling Climbs of the North East\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_2-kwMzT-Btg\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2-kwMzT-Btg\/maxresdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-kwMzT-Btg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M55S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-01-18T20:06:39.000Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_2-kwMzT-Btg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2-kwMzT-Btg\/maxresdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Neville Street - 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