CYCLING UP HARDKNOTT PASS & WRYNOSE PASS | HARDEST CLIMB IN ENGLAND?

Wasn’t sure if we would make it up Hardknott clipped in all the way – what a burner of a climb!!

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Hello there everybody. It’s the day after the Calonia ride and we are in a little place called Elter Water in the Lake District. We’re doing a 39 mile ride and we’re going up Hard Not Pass. And he’s not too happy about it. And to be honest, neither am I. We were literally we’ve just driven 4 hours to get here. We’ve still got a 3-hour drive home after this. But we thought we’re driving past it. We’ve never done that climb before. So why the hell not? But hard not passing on it. We’re passing. Yes. Hard yes. Car’s a hard pass at the minute, I think. Wonder why would we decide to do these stupid things? Well, literally, you can’t complain because I’m not joking. Literally, on the way here, I’ve been driving for 2 hours and I said to Kyle, “My legs are really achy.” I said, “We don’t have to do this if you don’t want to. Should we just drive home and do a little ride when we get home?” And Kyle said, “No, let’s do it.” I don’t want to do a little ride when I get home either. But you want to do this cuz you said, “No, let’s do it.” Only cuz I don’t want to do a ride when I get home. Might as well get Well, you could have just gone home and done nothing. Anyway, oh, there is a surprise for you when we get home, though. I’ve got a surprise for you. Come on. He’s not very happy at the minute. Oh, he’s going. I think he’s sat in something. Look at his ball. He got changed in the back of his van and he’s sat in something. Anyway, let’s go. Oh, and if you don’t know, Hard Knock Climb is the categorized as the third hardest climb in England on a bike. So, let’s go. And we are off. So we’ve got 10 climbs to do in total. One of them being hard not 39 mile ride with over 4,000 feet of climb. And how many meters is it, Kyle? Overall the route like 1,300 or 1,300 1,400 m in 39 miles. So quite a hilly one. Good morning, Sheepy. It is really early still. It’s only just after 9. Well, it’s 20 9. We got up at 4:15 this morning and left at 4:45. 4hour drive here and then Yeah. onto this bad boy. You can’t graze there, sir. How you feeling, Kyle? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Good. We’re just going up quite a steep burner on the way. And it’s got me worried. The legs aren’t feeling too good. I just really hope I can make it up hard. Not without walking. But if I have to walk, I have to walk. Give it my best go. Just coming to the top of an absolute burner, aren’t we, Kyle? That was grim. section of it was like 240 ft. Yeah. That was hard. Now I’m worried. I got 26% on my Garmin down that one. 26% gradient. Hard not worse. No. 33. Why are we doing this? Your idea. Our idea actually. No, it was your idea. But it was my idea. But you’d agreed. So we’re both responsible. Stupid idea. When we get in the car after this ride, we’ll be happy and proud of ourselves. We will. Plus, he won’t be, but I think he will. Shake that little tushy. We’re about stone lighter. If you’re a stone lighter after the climb, don’t worry. There’s a fun full English breakfast calling your name at the cafe. Put it back on. Isn’t Scarell Pike near? Yeah. where we’re going. Hello, Sheepy. 8 miles from the climb, but I’m just loving this road. Look at it. Cycling heaven. So nice. That makes me want to go walking in the mountains. That does. We’ll have to bring Chester up here, Kyle. go walking up there with him. Hey there, lady. Wow, look at this road, Kyle. This is heaven. It’s actual heaven. Right, we’re tminus 4 miles away from the big bad boy. We’ve come across this sign. Road suitable for cars and light vehicles only. It doesn’t say it’s suitable for cyclists, Kyle. So, uh, Kyle, that’s what I think. For goodness sake, I’m behind you. That’s how I feel about it. Jeez. I’m sorry about that, everybody. I’m putting that in the video, by the way. No, you’re not. Yeah, I am. You’ve done it. No, I’m not cutting it. No, all I can say is that’s for both the climb and riding behind him. Let’s go. A donkey. Hello. A. It’s worth doing hard not just to see a donkey. Right, we’re at the base. That up there. So, you can see all the way up there. Right up to this bit up here is where we’re going and further probably. So, the only thing I’m worried about is cuz it’s such a thin road. If a car comes, we’re going to have to uncip and then I probably won’t be able to get started again. That’s what’s generally going to stop me. If a car’s behind me, I’m going to have to stop cuz I’m not letting a car go behind me all the way up there. Be pressure. It is steep. Oh, gee wama. Why do we do this to ourselves? Better for you than me. How heavier than you. I’m not even thinking about us. I’m not even racing you. You There’s only No, there’s only one place gravity’s taking me, and that’s down. He’s going for it. Hello. Good luck. I’ll see you at the top, mate. Well, today I’m not even going to try and go fast at all. Literally, my only aim is to try not to walk. But if I have to walk, I have to walk. I’m not here to prove anything. He’s not bothered. He’s not bothered. He probably won’t be walking there, will he? The vehicles slow vehicles in into suitable for me. More like Oh no, I’m scared. Oh jeez. Great bit of headwind as well. Lovely. Front wheels came off the floor then. Lovely. Whoa. Come on, Amy. You can do it. Jeez. Oh no. Huh? That’s Come on. You got this. [Applause] Oh jeez. What? Surface isn’t ideal. Man alive. Holy pine cones. Gee whiz. This is a burner. We got this. Keep going. Same. Front wheel lifted. Oh. Oh, no. It’s that bit up there. I’m worried about taking on this section now. You need your section. Okay. Back off. Yeah, we’re in the middle section now, which is the easiest bit apparently. Heading towards that horrible bit at the top. which will be the hardest bit. My front wheel lifted off the floor on the first bit, so I’m uh skeptical whether I’m going to make it up there without walking, but I’ll try. I wish I was you right now. Heat. Heat. Christ. I’m climbing up to heaven or hell. Probably hell. Headwind. Oh Thanks. Hello. Yeah. Nearly there. Nearly there. We didn’t walk. Come on. Nearly there. [Music] Oh, that wind. Jeez. Oh, come on. Oh, yay. Hallelujah. Gee, wait. Woohoo! Made it. Hallelujah. That was so hard. The wind was blowing me. Made the mistake of sitting on the saddle the whole way. If I didn’t get off the saddle, apart from at the start, I just felt like if I got up off the saddle, I collapsed. So, I sat down the whole time. My front wheel was lifting like mad. Kyle will be coming in a minute. Let’s go and see. I’ll walk down a bit. See if we see him. See Kyle coming up. That was a burner, but I’m glad we did it. I’m really glad we did it. I knew I’d be glad. Just a hard one. Definitely. Definitely lived up to its name. I’ll tell you that. Let’s go see Kyle. He’ll be coming in a minute. Oh, it feels so good to get to the top. I didn’t actually think I was going to have to walk at any point to be honest. I just had to really push. But I think if I stood up off the saddle, probably would have made it easier for myself. But I was just so scared that if I, you know, when your legs just feel so dead and you feel like if you stand up, you’re just going to collapse. So I stayed sat down. But yeah, my front wheel lifted a few times. And when that car was like waiting for me, I was on completely the wrong side of the road, but I knew it was waiting. And I was like, “Look, mate, if I don’t do some weaving here, I’m going to fall off.” So go on, Kyle. Go on, Kyle. All the way. Well done. Easier bit now. Go on. Easier bit now. Well done. Well done. Keep going. All the way. All the way. All the way. Oh, go on. Go, Kyle. Current status. Jigged. Jig. Jigged. Jigged. What happened then? Got to the 30% ramp. Yeah. Then an electrical van man decided to park on the corner. Yeah. So, I had to take like the inside line on the C section. Yeah. Just as I come out the corner, my cuz my front foot my foot foot was forward. Yeah. It clipped my wheel and I came off to the side. Got a lot. I don’t think I cut. So, you got a bit of a cut. A little bit. Well, yeah. But then I got back up and I managed to get back on your me bike somehow. Yeah. How you managed to get back on there? Cuz it was dead steep. Are you glad we did that? No, I am. Yeah. Wasn’t actually as bad as I thought. No. I mean, to be fair, if you listen, I’m quite intrigued to see what that is going to be like if I stop recording now. I think boats. I think because I was making some right noises coming up there. And at one point I was honestly cuz I didn’t go I made the mistake of not getting off the saddle. I did the whole thing sitting down apart from you know this the first the first ramp very at the start I was off the saddle but the rest of the whole climb I sat down because I felt you know when you feel like if you stand up you’re going to fall off. It was like that and my front wheel came off the floor loads of times. Anyway, seeing as I didn’t do top of the hill dance yesterday, we’ll do it today. This is the hard this the hardest climb in the I think we’ve done harder climbs abroad, haven’t we? Like Mosy Rollolo. Yeah. But this is the hardest climb we’ve ever done on home turf, so it deserves an extra special dance. Hey, coming at the wind. At one point it was like a crosswind and I was getting blown to that side of the road. I thought it was more of an Edwind. Anyway, K, I think because we did it and because it’s your best, you know, hardest climb. You’ve got to do It’s not my hardest climb. Come on. That is not my hardest climb. Yeah, the hardest climb in the UK. Some bad ones in Cornwall that I struggle more on. Go on. You’re just a machine now, aren’t you? T Go on. That one’s called shoes. Hey, like Jack in the Beanstalk. Right, we’ve got a good Oh, no. You scuffed him. Is that when you came off? Yeah. Oh, no. That’s actually taking the material off. I know. But luckily, I’ve got some white touch-up stuff. Have you? Yeah. Is that when you fell off? Yeah. Like I said, the BL Well, you can see the tire as well. Cuz he was right on the corner. He just parked in the corner. Did you hear me shout, “Go, go, go.” No, he was he was I think he was parking to be nice to let us pass. Yeah, but it wasn’t nice cuz it was on the outside. I know you had to go on the inside. So then I was on the really steep inside bit which was really bumpy as well. And it just came off time. Wy jeez. Hello, Cowie. Hello. Oh, I’ve got to stop and take photo of that. I’ve got to take a My front camera died when I took photos of the cows, but we just came down that and obviously I was not going to I was not going to film that um without the front camera. So, yeah, that was scary. Actually, I think I’m going up then down. We’ve got one more climb left, a 600 ft climb, and then we’re nearly done. Kyle’s off. He’s ready for it. Woohoo! We did it. That just proves to myself like just don’t doubt yourself. I was convinced I was going to have to walk. I was thinking about it in bed last night, but I did it. Rhinus. Going up to Rhinos now, but we’re going up the other side. Not the official climb. So, we’re going to be descending down the official Rhinus. Rhinos. Rhinos, I think you say. Can’t get that word right. Rhino’s climb. We’re going to be descending down, which I won’t be filming because I’m not going to film one-handed on a descent. Uh, but if it’s really steep, I might walk down some cuz I get scared of coming off. But yeah, one more climb to go. This is some sort of sick joke. I’m going up there now. Look at it. But my neck is like another hard knot. Who planned this route? That would be me. Oh jeez. It looks like a blooming wall. Go hard not. Yeah, I would want to do that on a motor bike. No, I would want to do hard not on a motorbike. I wouldn’t want to do a flat road on a motorbike to be honest. That would be horrible. Yeah, I’m a bit worried about this Kyle 39. I think I burnt all my matches on Hard Knot. I burnt all my matches on hard not quite there. I mean, it’s gorgeous behind us, but it’s not gorgeous to climb. Keeping spinning. Not fun. Nearly there. Thank god. Gee whiz. That was a burner that I didn’t need. That was horrid, wasn’t it? That one. I never ever listen to your ideas about a drive riding away. Ever. Yeah, you were quite happy at the top of Hard Not. Come on. We’re nearly there now. That one I start to That one was horrible because I just wasn’t thinking about it when I was going up hard not I didn’t think about that climb and paint on that. We’ve only got three miles left, Kyle. Four miles left. Let’s go. Nice downhill now, which I won’t be filming because the camera’s died on the front. But anyway, let’s roll. All the hard bits done, Kyle. Hey, we did it. 4,200 ft in 33 34 miles with hard not. Yeah. But now big breakfast. Oh yeah. Let’s go. It’s like I think about half an hour drive. Yeah. Let’s go. Wow. Now this is what it’s all about. This is Rhino. Yeah. I can’t film the descent cuz it’s not safe with my front camera like died. But I just wanted to stop here cuz look at this view. Kyle’s whipped off. But it’s just beautiful. This is what makes it worth it for me. I just feel so calm and peaceful when I’m in a place like this. There’s just no other feeling. Like it’s just I feel like my busy mind just stops and Yeah. So nice. We ding dang did it. We didn’t have to walk. Kyle, are you glad? Yeah, very glad considering it came off as well. Nice to get back on. Considering how you were in the car park about 3 and a half hours ago when you were not happy. Yeah. But I do have a tendency just to get on with it. Yeah. I always say like sometimes you don’t feel not I always feel like doing a ride but sometimes get a bit like you know like a hard ride like that. I start thinking oh why are we doing this or I think I can’t do it but I always tell myself I’ve never regretted a bike ride and I always finish a ride feeling so much better. Quick change. Yes I’ve been wearing this outfit for the past 3 days. Don’t care. Um Kyle’s already eaten off. I couldn’t wait to tuck in. Waiting for my lunch is already eaten sausages. I might even have a cake on you. Shak shook with mushroom. But I’m a bit upset because Kyle ordered it wrong. He ordered it with cheese. So it means I get less mushroom and a ring of cheese. No, I didn’t order it with cheese at all. Well, you did order it cheese because it came with cheese. You specifically told you. Well, you paid for the cheese. Yeah, I paid for it, but I didn’t. I said no. Well, you must not have because otherwise you wouldn’t have paid for it. So, you’ve got it anyway. I think you ordered it on purpose so you could have it. Look up there. No, I didn’t actually. I will eat it while I’m not. I’m a bit upset because I’ve only got one bush now instead of two. You know, it’s a first world problem. So, I’ve got to suck it up and get on with it. Anyway, I’ve never had shak shuka before, but it’s like a tomato sauce, I think, with Oh, yeah. That’s really good. And side salad cuz I like to get me creams in. onions. It’s like a little bit spicy tomato, onions, and then mushroom. Oh, that lunch really hit the spot. And it’s an organic farm that we were at. So, we both got a nice crunchy apple. One for me and one for Kyle. Oh, you going to crunch test it. Oh, yeah. Is it crunchy? Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, but I thought we going to go to the ditch. Organic gala. That’s a good one cuz garalas are normally mushy to be honest. Really nice. Anyway, 2 and 1 half drive uh 2 and 1 half hour drive to go. First stop, pick up Chester. My sister’s been looking after him. And then back home and then your surprise car when we get home. Yeah. Right. And we’ll do the ride stats when we get home cuz the journey is going to be boring and we want to put the radio on and sync. Chester. Hello. Come on then. Let’s go and get in the van. Go and get in the van. We’re going home. Was excited to go home. Right in the van then. No, not weaning on mom’s bushes. Oh jeez. Hopefully mom won’t watch this. Come on. Right, let’s get on home. Jess is looking through here. Hello, mate. He’s got perfectly good bed to lie, but he decides to stand up. Right, we’ve just got home and there’s something outside the door, like a delivery, and I’ve done the stupidest thing ever. Kyle, you’re not going to believe what I’ve done. Right, I’ve ordered this. This is just not what I meant to order. I mean, it could come in use to be honest. This is not your present, by the way, Kyle. You know how I’ve been So, this is like a foam roller. Yeah. No. You know how I’ve been in charge of decorating the garage, and I’ve been doing really well. And I said I was going to paint the garage door. Oh, I know what you’ve done. And I said, “What do what do I need to paint the garage door with? what kind of paint brush. Oh my god, I can’t believe. And you said you need to use a foam roller. So, I went on BNQ. I didn’t even know BNQ sold these and I thought I was ordering you like a paint roller. I can’t believe that. And I’ve actually ordered I do. I actually quite like the look of this one cuz I’ve actually ordered a foam roller for your muscles. Well, I’ll use that. So, I’m not going to be painting the garage door with that. I mean, it will go in the garage. We’ll get the garage. It’ll be part of the gym to roll our muscles out. So, it’s very important, but it’s not what I wanted to order. I can’t believe I’ve done that. Sorry, Kyle. Let’s do the ride stats and I get you present. So, we did 38.93 mi and we went up 4,826 ft. We went nice and slow, so 12.9 mph, booming the saddle for 3 hours and 57 seconds. But the most important thing that we want to know about is the hard not pass segment. I mean, I don’t think I fully went for it as fast as I could. My aim was just just to get up there. The fact I stayed sat down, apart from literally like a tiny bit at the start, probably didn’t help. I think if I went up out the saddle, definitely could have gone faster. And gearing, getting the gearing right. Yeah. Well, there was no getting the gearing right. I was just No, I mean cuz if you could put big gears on your bike, if you could put an easier gear on, Yeah. Yeah, you’ll be able to spin, which would be a big difference. Yeah. I’m just trying to find me segment. I just figured out I’ve only got a 32 on mine. What have I got on? 34. So, I slightly easier gear. Yeah. Um, so I did it in 20 minutes and 56 seconds. And Kyle, you did it in 2218, was it? 2218. So, I was just No, you were 23, I think. Oh, yeah. 2318. 2318. So, I was like just over 2 minutes quicker than you. Well, that was involving an off. Yeah. You came off and getting back on. I managed to get back on. So somehow on the steam section as well and out of all the women that have done it, 2,183 women have done it. I came 388, top 18% quicker. Quite happy about that. So I did 20 minutes 56, but Queen of the Mountain absolutely mental. 13 minutes 35 seconds. But that’s um Lily Gardner who’s national hill climbing champ and she’s an absolute beast. And Andrew Fe is the men’s and the men’s. Let’s have a look. Is it Andrew Feather? Just click all the time. Yeah. 9 minutes 15 seconds. That’s just ridiculous, isn’t it? That is just ridiculous. That’s crazy. 9 minutes and 15 seconds up there. Like double the speed that I did. Ridiculous. That’s me. Anyway, let’s get your present now. This is So, I’m going to be totally honest here. They sent it me so I didn’t buy it. I haven’t bought it. You’re not that special. But I know how good the massage gun is. We take that everywhere. So, I’m a bit beused as what this could be. You’re going to guess what it could be? A coverage gel or something like that. No. You might not even know what it is when I show it to be honest. Is it a booster seat? This? Not that short. It’s a booster seat for the car. No, it is. So, I have to plug it in to use it. We’ll go and use it in a minute. It’s basically a neck, shoulder, back massager, but you can also use it for your legs as well. So, these bits massager. Um, let me see. anytime you use the manual back cuz I’ve not actually looked at this. Sorry. It’s a back and neck massager. But look, you do lower back, upper back, neck, abdomen. I mean, I’m not sure if I’ll be doing that. Calves and thighs. I like the look of that. So, let’s have a look. Neck. You didn’t walk in the lounge. I’ll be sat on it. Goes this way. Goes like that. And you sit back on it. It’s going to massage you. Oh, yeah. Oh, but down a bit actually there. Or let’s go and try it. Right. He’s seated and ready. K. There’s four different options. An experiment. Is it an experiment? You got number one is heating. It goes different directions up. So you got one and two different directions. The heating mode. I don’t need heating today. Or three and four have no heating. I don’t want heating. Heat’s good for your muscles though. Yeah, but it’s hot. Right. What you going for? Neck, abdomen, upper back. Upper back. Right. It needs to be that way down. Right. Okay. I’ll I’ll position it for you if you want. I think it’s meant to be down a bit more. Hang on. Lean forward a bit. No. I know. I wanted to do the top a bit. There you are. How does that feel like? You’re just going to see me disappeared in the house. I’m just going to rub this off. Is it nice? Oh, it looks very strong. Look at that. Oh, it’s getting a knot that’s in me shoulder blade. Oh, no. I’m not joking. It’s hitting a knot on me shoulder blade, which is nice. Yeah, but it’s not like too aggressive. Oh, he says, “Who needs to pay for a sports massage when you got this bad boy?” Oh, that’ll be saving me 50 quid. Whenever you want to go for a sports massage, I’m saying everything, right? He’s got the thighs now. Tender lines. I think you should be on the sofa, not He’s climbing off the chair. Oh, no. Certain. Is it? Oh, I can feel it. Oh, get this on your calves. Yeah, you can do it on your calves. I’m going to lie on the sofa and just have this in all sorts of positions. Be good for you. Every night you’ll walk in there and just have this on. You like that then? Asleep. You glad we got that. I love it. Well, that’s me sorted then. If if you’re annoying me, I just throw that at you. You can use it. If you throw it at me, not throw it physically, you know, just pass you. That feels like, you know, when I go for my sports massage, feels like someone’s hands digging in. Oh, someone’s knuckles. Wo. I’ve definitely got a lump there. When it’s hitting a knot and it keeps rubbing it cuz every now and then goes in the same bit. Oh, it’s heating up as well. It’s got the one in my right shoulder blade. Oh, yeah. That is so good. I’ve got a date with Bob and Brad tonight. I want a date with this for the rest of my life. Who needs a husband when you got this bad boy? I’m joking, Kyle. Kyle’s upset now. This is really nice. They are really That is going to be really nice for to France. Seriously after a hilly day. Yeah. Got you for to France. You’re a qualified masseuse. How about some lessons? You don’t need lessons anymore. We got this bad boy. Yeah, that’s true. We were going to get my friend a job. We were going to get my friend who does sports massage to teach you, weren’t we? But I think we’ve got this when you get in the uh serious when you get in the hotel. I’m just going to chill that at you and Yeah, I can use this. I can use the massage gun stretch. I think I’ll be okay cuz then it’s a set job for you then, isn’t it? This will just loosen cuz realistically you’re not going to have time to be massaging me when you’ve got to be feeding me, you know, doing you’re doing a YouTube. I’ll have it on the go all day in the car. You can’t use it while you’re driving. That’ll be dangerous. You can use it when you’re not driving. Anyway, we’re faffing on now. And we’ve even got this bad boy, too. Come with us. My cuz I’m not going to be painting the garage. That’s my roller now for your up. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. I’ll put a link to this in the description if anyone’s interested. Um, we’re very kindly I’m very grateful cuz that is going to help a lot to tour France. Yeah. Um the people that make it are actually qualified physiootherapists. So it’s not just some random that want to make money. They actually know what they’re talking about, which is what I love. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. I’m so glad we did today. It’s proved that sometimes the rides you don’t want to do are the ones that make you feel the best. And Kyle is definitely Yeah. living proof. A living proof of that. And you don’t even have to go full chat. No. Just do do the ride. Take your time. Enjoy. Even if we had to walk, the scenery was sublime. Yeah, the scenery was so good. And even if we had to walk, it wouldn’t have mattered. We did it. That’s the main thing. And there was a fear I was going to have to walk. But luckily, I got out the side skills, even though I’ve never done cross. Oh, love it. Anyway, thank you so much for watching. TT to the FN. Tata for now. Goodbye. about that G.