Originally Posted by
DScott
I'd call any route with 75+ ft/mile a climbing ride. While you can certainly do any route hard enough to wipe you out, when the climbing gets closer to 100 ft/mile, there's no question it is, as umd called it, "climbey climbey".
That ride had over 200 ft/mile
This was a good 'hilly' ride, about 115 ft/mile
This one has one really good climb but is otherwise kind of rolling, about 70 ft/mile
And
this is pretty much as flat as it gets around here, about 35 ft/mile