Hill climbing (not hillshooting)
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04-27-2005 | 12:34 PM
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These forums pretty much talk about everything that has to do with our sport. But I never hear of anyone talking about climbing steep hills. I know that is one of me and my buddy's favorite things to do, and where we ride there is a lot of guys "trying" to climb some monster hills. I get a huge rush conquering a hill.
Granted this can get to be expensive if you go past your abilities and roll back down.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img] But none the less I know a lot of people (nuts) enjoy hill climbing. Anybody here a hill climber? Anybody know why it is not ever a topic?
Granted this can get to be expensive if you go past your abilities and roll back down.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img] But none the less I know a lot of people (nuts) enjoy hill climbing. Anybody here a hill climber? Anybody know why it is not ever a topic?
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04-27-2005 | 12:40 PM
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04-27-2005 | 01:00 PM
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I'm glad you brought this up. I love hillclimbing. At a gravel pit where I used to ride, there was a hill, probably 100 yards up and about a 70degree slope. Atop that was a road about 10 feet wide and then a 40 foot drop into a canal. Climbing that for the first time was the biggest thrill I had ever had on my bike. That's why I love cinder/gravel pits because there are always some hills to climb coming in and out of the pits.
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04-27-2005 | 01:13 PM
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I tryed climbing a steep hill once on a 01 Rubicon. Got about half way up when I couldn't make it. My brakes weren't to good either. I started to roll back and there was little humps in the hill. Once my bike hit that it started flipping. Thankfully I got off of it before I got hurt. My bike was totaled. I could start it but when I would give it gas it would sputter. We had insurance on it and they took care of it.
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04-27-2005 | 01:15 PM
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I new there had to be some fellow hill climbers here![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
I don't mean to sound arogant, but every year I feel I am as good as I am going to get at climbing big, long, steep hills, and every year I am wrong and I feel a bit better and better and learn a little better technique here and there. I think I have been climbing big hills intentionally for maybe 5 years or so and I still get a rush everytime.
Safety Tip, if your climbing a steep hill and you are thinking your not going to make it, your probably not. So lean forward, pull in the clutch, and hit all the breaks, and don't move until buddies get there to help you back down.
There is exceptions like on hills straight up and down, those are hit or miss and I don't recommend unless your nutz, LOL. I usually only hit completely vertical hills if I can get a little run and it is not rutted out. Unless it is only about 10ft tall and then I'll just nail em.
I don't mean to sound arogant, but every year I feel I am as good as I am going to get at climbing big, long, steep hills, and every year I am wrong and I feel a bit better and better and learn a little better technique here and there. I think I have been climbing big hills intentionally for maybe 5 years or so and I still get a rush everytime.
Safety Tip, if your climbing a steep hill and you are thinking your not going to make it, your probably not. So lean forward, pull in the clutch, and hit all the breaks, and don't move until buddies get there to help you back down.
There is exceptions like on hills straight up and down, those are hit or miss and I don't recommend unless your nutz, LOL. I usually only hit completely vertical hills if I can get a little run and it is not rutted out. Unless it is only about 10ft tall and then I'll just nail em.
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04-27-2005 | 02:07 PM
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Used to do a lot more hill climbing in the 4-wd truck. The slick rock in Moab is the greatest surface to climb really steep grades.
The steepest hill I have climbed on our Rubicon was wet and I was doing fine until it got REAL steep on a corner and the corner was a huge rock. Well with the tires wet and the mud sticking to them when I hit the rock surface it lost traction and I was done. I was by myself, not real smart, and just sat there until I figured out how to go back down. I held the brakes and climbed on the front rack and let it go slowly backwards.
I too like climbing around. I would much rather be climbing around over real rough trails and climbing steep hill in low range than blasting down a graded gravel road at 55 mph. That probably comes from our 4-wheeling days.
I liked the big challenges more in our truck, I would rather back it down a huge nasty hill than our ATV.
The steepest hill I have climbed on our Rubicon was wet and I was doing fine until it got REAL steep on a corner and the corner was a huge rock. Well with the tires wet and the mud sticking to them when I hit the rock surface it lost traction and I was done. I was by myself, not real smart, and just sat there until I figured out how to go back down. I held the brakes and climbed on the front rack and let it go slowly backwards.
I too like climbing around. I would much rather be climbing around over real rough trails and climbing steep hill in low range than blasting down a graded gravel road at 55 mph. That probably comes from our 4-wheeling days.
I liked the big challenges more in our truck, I would rather back it down a huge nasty hill than our ATV.
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04-27-2005 | 02:21 PM
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This is where the 2-wheelers really shine. You can try absolutely any hill with not much worry about totalling out your bike. Just lay it over on the hill you can't make, and drag it around until you can lift it up pointing down hill, then either ride or bull-dog it back down. Quads are so much more fragile than a motorcycle that just about any slip-up on a hill can cost you thousands of dollars. Why risk it on a quad when you can ride much gnarlier hills safer on a bike.
Sand dune hills are a whole different world than uphill dirt trails because you can nearly always make a U-turn and ride safely back down in sand on a quad.
Sand dune hills are a whole different world than uphill dirt trails because you can nearly always make a U-turn and ride safely back down in sand on a quad.
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04-27-2005 | 02:44 PM
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Originally posted by: oldturtle
This is where the 2-wheelers really shine. You can try absolutely any hill with not much worry about totalling out your bike. Just lay it over on the hill you can't make, and drag it around until you can lift it up pointing down hill, then either ride or bull-dog it back down. Quads are so much more fragile than a motorcycle that just about any slip-up on a hill can cost you thousands of dollars. Why risk it on a quad when you can ride much gnarlier hills safer on a bike.
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This is where the 2-wheelers really shine. You can try absolutely any hill with not much worry about totalling out your bike. Just lay it over on the hill you can't make, and drag it around until you can lift it up pointing down hill, then either ride or bull-dog it back down. Quads are so much more fragile than a motorcycle that just about any slip-up on a hill can cost you thousands of dollars. Why risk it on a quad when you can ride much gnarlier hills safer on a bike.
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This is one of the main reason I only ride dirtbikes on the track anymore. There to easy to conquer challenges, it really is nothing to shoot a dirtbike up a verticle hill if you have experience on a bike. A quad is more of a challenge on most obstacles, you got to have more body english and be more picky about your lines and what not IMO. But the repair bill of rolling a quad down a hill stinks.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]
Surprisingly I havn't rolled on down a hill too bad in a few years knock on wood, so the damage doesn't worry me as much as it used too. Most people make the mistake of staying on the throttle when they ain't going to make it, like I said earlier, try and stay still holding the quad there if possible. Don't try and go it alone if your in trouble.
My next thing is trikes! Now there's a challenge[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]
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04-27-2005 | 06:21 PM
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I absolutely LOVE hill climbs!! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
That is usually what we go do, is try to search out the steepest, most technical hillclimbs down at the Oregon dunes.
Several pics of this on my pics page! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]
That is usually what we go do, is try to search out the steepest, most technical hillclimbs down at the Oregon dunes.
Several pics of this on my pics page! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]