Extreme race • PUNTA VELENO

september, the 10th 2011

Listed as one of the paved climb more "POISONS AND VICIOUS" around Lake Garda.
From 2 km to 8 km climb has an average gradient of 14.6% with peaks of nearly 20%.
This is what they say about: "The road seems to be subject to a special force of gravity. For 6 km I have no escape if not only to fight against the little voice that tells me "GET DOWN AND PUSH"... Its nickname is due to its average gradient, a massacre for those who do the double row of bike... in mtb, at least you can have the advantage of having small reports and can then go on more slowly... A REAL CHALLENGE... In a couple of miles we reache the first bend, which just passed suddenly showed us the terrible reality that awaited us: the first in a long series of ramps to 16-17%.
Reports agile (28-29x39) we had immediately began to be grafted hard to pull, then very hard, impossible to push seated, and also "out of the saddle", because of the slippery asphalt, we had to do real stunts to not to crash ground...  
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