RIDING BRITAIN’S STEEPEST HILL
“T here’s always a bigger fish.” That’s what the ancient proverb says, and just when I thought I’d ridden the steepest road in Britain and put the matter to bed once and for all, up popped another hideous incline to further move the goalposts and redefine suffering.
When I first tackled Hardknott Pass I assumed nothing could ever beat that, but then a few years after, I discovered the road up to Abdon Burf in the Shropshire Hills and my perception of torture was changed. A while later, the utterly horrendous Cowlyd in North Wales found its way onto my radar and again the slate was wiped clean and a new standard was set.
For a while there, I thought I’d settled it. I’d evaluated the merits of all contenders from Rosedale Chimney to Ffordd Penllech via Bushcombe Lane and Vale
