The World's Steepest Climb? | Extreme E-Bike Climbing Challenge: The Slab
Steep. Long. Slippery and unforgiving. A slab of limestone cut by glaciers thousands of years ago. It’s something we’re no stranger to, having seen the likes of Martyn Ashton and Chris Smith descend it’s face before, but nobody has ever attempted to ride up…
It’s (potentially) the world’s steepest climb. Chris and Steve wanted to know how far they could ride up on an Electric Mountain Bike… if it was even possible at all.
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The world’s steepest residential road is Baldwin Street in New Zealand, three and a half kilometers long, averaging 35% with pitches of 38%. But we wanted to find something more extreme. Vittorio Brumotti rode the Lion’s Back in Utah, which has a peak gradient of 65%, but that isn’t enough.
We wanted to push the limits of possibility. What can an E-bike do?
This is the famous slab in Bristol Gorge, a destination for mountain bikers to ride DOWN, not up.
It’s 75%, thats 37 degrees. It’s 10 percent steeper than the Lion’s Head and almost twice as steep as Baldwin Street. Is it possible to go up, even with turbo mode?
We want to know about your steepest climbs. Know of anything steeper? Let us know and we’ll try and ride it!
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Gmbn should do it on a normal bike
Next time use a 2019 TREK LT9 Well done Boys like the stuff you boys doing.
whooooooaaaaaaaa…… very scary
10:07 you can just see some graffiti balls lol
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I don’t think I want to go up or down on that one.
Get blake to give it a try
Why is That slab even there
Is it cheating if you tack back and forth up the hill?
You can check out the scottish cliffs that Danny Mcaskill has climbed up on…they might be steeper
Ofcourse someone’s drawn a massive shlong on the hill at 10 minutes 😂
Awesome 👏🏻 😎
What’s music starting at 7:17?
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A motor on a mtb thats just absurd and lazy do the work
I recently attempted swains lane with a mountain bike. Mate half way up my lungs felt like they were gonna fall out of mouth. No strategy whatsoever. Any tips on this?
Station Rd, Wood St, Castle Road mow cop would beat this climb.
Great video guys, really enjoyed this. Would have been nice to see a short attempt at the end on a regular bike, just for the comparison. Even if it was only 5meters 🙂
That looks like every road in South America
sticky tyre job done
Drama queens
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Just use a crosser ?
Well done boys
So,. What was the wattage.
There are quite a few open slabs in western North Carolina, but most are not as smooth or uniform as this one. The rock, however, is good hard metamorphic rock for the most part.
Should test all the motors in class there
Now on a road bike
What are he specs?
Thats was incredible climb
… and I thought 27 was steep.
Stop using your breath to talk to Chris and pedal up😆
Imagine setting up some nice soap slides right there, the speed would be ridiculous
When someone falls down : You Spin My Head Right Round Right Round .
alors là chapeau.ça doit tirer dans les jambes .le cardio est a combien ? quelle est cette dalle de béton très pentue
thats really scary
ebikes are for sissy’s
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I expected the hill to be so steep the bikes would just slide down the hill so would the guys going up the hill if they stopped at all
looks like my street hehehe
4:12
Thought you would have put a smaller front wheel on it.
Well if they had electric bikes💁
I want roll down that in a zorb ball
No joke my Haibike Flyon would fly up that…..lol
This is not what I was looking for but it was a great find!!
I’d be trying it on my Levo with the seat up and spinning to win sitting down.
How my parents were travelling to school
Nice dude that air tire pressure, works a lot thanks for the tips