Chris 
Cycling is a diverse sport with many different types of races to choose from. Each of these types of races requires different skills, equipment, and training, so it’s important to find the one that suits your interests and abilities best. Let’s dive into each different type of cycling race in more detail. Road Racing Road … Read more
Cleats are small, typically metallic, attachments that are attached to the bottom of cycling shoes. They allow the rider to clip into the pedals of the bike, providing a secure connection between the shoe and the pedal. This allows the rider to generate power through the pedals and transfer it to the bike, increasing efficiency … Read more
Like out on the roads, most of the cyclists you find making YouTube videos right now are men. But there are some really great YouTube cycling channels that are by women, for women, or both. There’s mixture here between road cycling, mountain biking, gravel, more race oriented, cycling for fitness, and cycling just for fun. … Read more
A massive site update today, in terms of the number of listed bike climbs anyway. We jump from: to: Pretty crazy. It’s taking a lot longer to make updates with that many climbs to list. The database upload itself takes nearly 4 hours, then another hour or two to import it once uploaded. Worth it, … Read more
Cheater, cheater, motorbike meter. I see nothing wrong here. Top quality news from the Tour. To be fair, not really a meme. But definitely the picture that sums up this years Tour de France for me. What a battle. All it’s missing are some pot holes and week old horse muck. Apparently there’s a bicycle … Read more
With today’s update we are sooo closed to the 2 million climbs mark. There are now 1,983,725 cycling climbs listed on the site 🤯 Still so many more to come. It just takes time. And lots of it. Sadly at the time of writing I am currently out injured. That does mean more time at the computer … Read more
A fairly big update today. Not so much in terms of overall climbs tracked, though this figure did jump by over 300,000. Today’s changes were more about improving the site generally, mostly focused on page load speed. Front Page The country list is now split between 1 and 4 columns, depending on your screen size. … Read more
Just a short blog post today to note the moving of BikeClimbs.com from one server to another. Will this have any impact on you? No. Aside from my clumsiness taking the site down for the entire morning… long story, but the database transfer totally failed because I missed a / from the copy command. Nuts … Read more
A fairly big update today. It may look like not a lot happens on here, but behind the scenes there is frequently a lot of work in progress. There’s a few big changes in the pipeline, but today’s release is more concerned with fixing up some glaring issues, and standardising the locations of all the … Read more
On initial observation, cycling is a physical activity. How physical? Well that depends on how hard you crank those pedals over. But is there more to cycling? Beyond physical fitness, can cycling help with your mental health and overall wellbeing? Before we continue, we should probably quickly cover what is meant by “wellness”. I must … Read more
