THE CYCLING CLIMBS OF EAST ANGLIA

Low Hill is an isolated climb in an area of flatland in Lee Valley.  Its statistics make it look deceptively easy – a 6% average gradient is nothing special.  But the final 200m are much tougher than that, the official gradient being 14%.  The road becomes steeper gradually from a false fat around the first bend to the painful final straight on a poor surface.  Here, the road is hemmed in claustrophobically by a tangle of trees.  As you crawl out of this the gradient suddenly disappears – like the edge of a drop slide.