HILL CLIMBER Takes On U.K. Hardest Cycling Climbs! // Hill Climb Series Ep.19

[@thestrugglehillclimb]

The Struggle, bringing even Ed Laverack to tears! The hurt is real.

[@tednruth453]

Wrynose.....silent w 👍 Keswick.....silent w 😂

[@owenwilliams9582]

Pob lwc Ed. All the best tomorrow on the HC. The Fred Whitton a brute, with Hardknott near the end, had to climb off on the Hardknott for a little bit.. honest

[@marvinsmall5002]

Glad you're enjoying it up here. Try the outher side of Eden valley and give great Dunn fell a try. That and heartside pass get forgotten. 👍😃

[@edlaverack]

Next time! But I've done GDF before now.

[@leewood4825]

Finally a video with a secret from Ed 😂😂😂 Good luck for this Ed 💪 look forward to video on champs 👍

[@peterthomas8053]

Wow, stunning scenery. And yes, it is very much like being in North Wales. Great video once again.👍

[@999shaznay]

Looking forward to the next one very much! 👍

[@jasoncaine5888]

Cracking video ED knew youd love the lake District climbs hardknott is an absolute brute wrynose from the longer side just gets steeper and steeper and honister when you went back up it feels like a wall that first section

[@johnclement7621]

The Lakes and the Forrest of Bowland just beautiful to ride bikes in, brutal but beautiful

[@crankgreenwatts]

Awesome Ed .. Keep the heart and get on that start line fiddly fit 🙌

[@htukmumfie]

Great vid, ed. I love the climbs in the lakes👌. Did you do hard knot from the “hard” side also? Ie west to east? Also, give Blae tarn a nudge whilst you’re there. It’s stunning from north back over to langdale at the start of wrynose.

[@edlaverack]

Yes, I did it from both sides

[@derekevans1932]

Great to see that you have done these iconic Lake District climbs, with the wind. Prep for tomorrow and for something in a few weeks time as well. You might want to go back for the Fred Whitton one day?!

[@edlaverack]

Maybe!

[@eamonn9882]

Epic views there, need an extended version! I’ve done Hardknott on Rouvy but that doesn’t really count does it? 😂

[@edlaverack]

Turns out that a bloke from some of the hardest towns to pronounce in the world can’t get simple ones right in northern England 😅😂 (although it’s getting people to comment, maybe I did it on purpose😮)

[@shanegreen2583]

Agree with you on hardknott and apart from the bit where the cattle grid is and that steep bend it’s not what people rave about. Honister start to mid section was the hardest for me

[@colinwilliams9290]

Great video ones again Ed, stunning scenery. Good luck for tomorrow

[@virtualZ161]

I was there this time last year. Awesome riding there.

[@JSC131]

Brilliant content Ed fair play really enjoyed the video.

[@bertonabike6991]

Looks incredible Ed. I rode honister as my proper difficult climb, sad to say 12yr old me had to walk. Otherwise i loved the lakes, newlands especially

[@CycletheNation]

My back yard. Love it! Hardknott from the far side is more difficult IMO (the Fred way)

[@TheMashurst]

Awesome job again ED! Glad you decided to keep some of your training secret ;-) Used to live upo in North Lancashire so I know the area quite well and used to go up into the lakes quite a lot Done Hardnott and Wrynose a couple of times, but in a car and that was tough! Rode the Struggle though and that's a really interesting ride especially the way it comes straight out on to the main road at the top. Good luck tomorrow, looking forward to the results and watching next weeks video 👍

[@robertminors7100]

Please, please, please make a longer, much longer version of this one. 🙏

[@MrYoungkimba]

Ed, compare Hardknott to Bwlch y Groes for me. I’ve ridden up Bwlch y Groes and it was the hardest climb I’ve ever done.

[@edlaverack]

It's harder than the BYG, or at least, it's steeper in some sections but BYG has it's hardest section right at the very top.

[@user-TonyUK]

I have walked over both passes a few times and that was a struggle.

[@derx6666]

I've been wondering about this since I've been in the UK a few weeks back. Do you people know it's possible to make hairpins on hills so the average gradient can be lower? It seems to me like every road up al hill is almost a straight line. Paving was probably done by dumping the asphalt on the top, and just let it flow down and compact it :) 20-30% is not normal :) But lake district is definitely on the map for our next UK holiday. For cycling up there I'd probably need to rent an ebike, because there's no gearing in the world that would get me up 30% without me falling over :)

[@edlaverack]

Indeed, but I think many would need an e-bike given the power I had to do to keep moving. You are very right though, the hairpins are crazy tight and yet there seems to be enough land to move the road a bit lol.

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

ATB for the event. As someone who revelled more on criterium circuits or the Bynea RR that went around the washeries circuit, that area is absolutely terrifying!!

[@kennyroberts830]

Kesick not Keswick in pronunciation, hope you haven't burnt too many matches already before tomorrow, might eschew club runs & drive up there to watch, whatever, good luck with it Ed!

[@edlaverack]

I don't tend to train around the weekend races if I can help it, but at some point it has to be done because otherwise I start going backwards. This weekend is a prime example, but tomorrow's effort will still be as deep as I can go on the day, it's all prep for one event, these in the build up don't need to be peaked for.

[@jnthnmllry]

Did hardknott on c2c this year, couldn’t sleep the night before for worrying about getting up it. Glad I had 48-35 and 10-36 cassette needed them all. Can only imagine what a 39 to 11-30 was like 😂

[@edlaverack]

Haha!

[@SwimBikeRunStu]

Your videos always inspire me to go out and ride my bike 👌

[@edlaverack]

Happy to hear that!

[@nicksidell4797]

Yes, it does Ed and the word I’m looking for is plain 😂

[@stuartmclean3843]

C'mon now Ed sharing is caring 😂

[@Chris-dw3xl]

You are a beast no doubt about it 💪💪💪💪

[@BelpassoOilandWineCo]

'I forgot my coffee making facilities'...first world problems eh! Nice video though.

[@edlaverack]

So true!

[@kevstephen9393]

Flashbacks, bloody worst nightmare with all that climbing.

[@xandershawvlog]

Newlands House is a sod too.

[@mbee6606]

I found hardknott west to east to be the hardest climb in the lakes for me 🙁

[@gedpitts8879]

Do you love pain Ed? I was tired watching the video 😊 Well done ✔

[@mattmorga36]

Hi. What tyres do you guys use/recommend for autumn steep hill climbs? I had my Contis gp 5000 on yesterday, on a wet (above 15%) gradient loosing traction like crazy...thanks

[@cornishalps9870]

Go tubeless and run 60psi

[@cornishalps9870]

And as wide as possible, 32mm if you can push it. Don't get vittoria zaffiros

[@eamonn9882]

I’m using Schwalbe pro1 TT, tubeless low psi they are really good on hill climbs

[@LIFE_ToBeContinued]

New jersey? ❤ it!

[@tvsa7]

what a nice views

[@stuartmclean3843]

Honister reminds me of Hirnant coming from Bala side

[@johnclement7621]

Hardknott is the hardest I’ve done , it’s horrific , that “ hairpin” grim

[@ColdDarkNorth.]

Controversial opinion maintained that the North side of Honister is the harder side. Not the Fred side. Top stuff. See you at The Struggle, but.

[@danjo1967]

nearly every road in the mountain province in philippines are worse than this - you pray to rest when its 10%. you got it EZ

[@pauldyerdyer2731]

I've done Dragon Devil and The Fred Whitton and I would say Hardknott is the hardest climb!

[@edlaverack]

Oh yeah, there isn't anything on the Dragon Ride that is as bad as the Fred, it's just the distance.

[@geoffwoods3653]

Hi Ed its Wrynose, pronounced rye-nose 😂

[@JK-wl5bx]

Hardknott harder than Bwlch y groes on your opinion?

[@edlaverack]

Slightly maybe. But the Cowlyd is harder than any of them.

[@PurePresentations]

Kes-Wick 👍 da iawn

[@chriswarren4546]

do mow cop ed

[@iancalland5934]

Try hardknott from the other side

[@the318pop]

He did both ways, hence descending back down Wrynose afterwards.

[@RDRides]

Think it's Wrynose, not Wynrose 😉

[@Nosh_Feratu]

aye, locally pronounce it raynuss aswell. . .top tip for ya

[@kimwalton2873]

You are a glutton for punishment and still smiling.🙂

[@topaz_climber]

It’s not called Cymbria for nothing! Twinned with Wales, boy.