Start: Goblin Combe car park GR 458654 Finish: 472644
Length: 2.3km Height Gain: 114m
A delightful steady pull with one hard section. Following the narrow road up from Goblin Combe you pass a sequence of picturesque houses and their parked cars - which make the road especially narrow! Past these and out into wooded territory and a long rising straight. The straight is easy enough, but you can see that its concave and fore-shortening leaves you asking questions about what is to come. The answer proves to be 250m of hard pull from the end of the straight, round to the left and then back up right again. The left looks like it will throw you onto level ground going eastwards across the hill but instead the road switches back right for a short-n-hard conclusion. According to my map skills, this top section rises only 25m in that 250m - there's definitely a feel of more than 1:10 about it - I would place that second corner at about 1:6. Beyond this section the climb continues but far more reasonably now as the road crests this convexity to stretch ribbon like across the top before diving down Wrington Hill - watch the loose stuff on the right angle bend at the top.
Rating - Enjoyable, well worth including in a longer ride.
DP
Length: 2.3km Height Gain: 114m
A delightful steady pull with one hard section. Following the narrow road up from Goblin Combe you pass a sequence of picturesque houses and their parked cars - which make the road especially narrow! Past these and out into wooded territory and a long rising straight. The straight is easy enough, but you can see that its concave and fore-shortening leaves you asking questions about what is to come. The answer proves to be 250m of hard pull from the end of the straight, round to the left and then back up right again. The left looks like it will throw you onto level ground going eastwards across the hill but instead the road switches back right for a short-n-hard conclusion. According to my map skills, this top section rises only 25m in that 250m - there's definitely a feel of more than 1:10 about it - I would place that second corner at about 1:6. Beyond this section the climb continues but far more reasonably now as the road crests this convexity to stretch ribbon like across the top before diving down Wrington Hill - watch the loose stuff on the right angle bend at the top.
Rating - Enjoyable, well worth including in a longer ride.
DP
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