George Street Bike Challenge for Major Taylor
July 30th, 2007
I should mention that the George Street hill climb happened Sunday in Worcester as it has since 2002. The Major Taylor Association and Barney’s Bicycle have been holding the event to raise money to build a statue downtown to commemorate Major Taylor. The race is only 500 feet long at an 18 percent average grade but it’s a ton of fun. A bunch of us from Providence like to go and ride up on fixed gear bikes hoping that we’ve chosen the perfect gear. There’s always a couple of Circle A’s going up and here are a couple of shots to prove it. More shots can be found here.
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Apples says:
August 7th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
9 hundreths of a second!!
Sorry that paint was so tough today… but there Circus buy delivered! That’s pretty awesome right?
Brentani’s Cycling Blog » River, George & the George St. Hillclimb says:
August 25th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
[...] St. in Worcester, MA. I heard about George from a post by Brian at Circle A about the recently held George St. Hillclimb. I’m kicking myself for missing that one (500 feet at about 20%–winning time was 23.7 [...]
shane says:
July 21st, 2008 at 9:30 am
Our of curiosity I am thinking of doing this fixed this year, what gearing have you found works well? If you could drop me an email I would be SOOOO thankful.
Thanks
Shane
BostonBiker.org
admin says:
July 21st, 2008 at 9:46 am
39-18 was my gearing of choice and it got me over the top. Good luck!