From sea to summit in a single day

but you’d need a moutain bike as it’s only a dirt track

There is no reason you can’t ride a road bike on a dirt track, it’s just not as easy or comfortable as a mountain bike.

Plus it’d suck to ride up a 50 metre high hill, then have a bit of a rest while you coast down the other side only to have to ride up another hill to reach the same altitude you had at the top of the first one.

Sounds alot like the road from Bega to Bemboka. And at that hour of the morning (pre-sunrise) the pie shop isn’t even open!

Plus it’d suck to ride up a 50 metre high hill, then have a bit of a rest while you coast down the other side only to have to ride up another hill to reach the same altitude you had at the top of the first one. Doing hard work twice over is not my idea of fun.

A 100m descent followed by a 100m ascent (or the opposite) isn’t as easy as just riding flat for the same distance, so you can’t assume that descents cancel out ascents. The way it’s calculated is a measure of the total amount of uphill riding required, because that’s the hard stuff!

What about the downhill bits where they don’t have to pedal? Sounds a bit dodgy to me…

5km vertical? Kosciusko is only 2228 metres… An impressive feat nonetheless.

Cyclists calculate the vertical ascent on a ride as the sum of the individual ascents – since the road doesn’t climb smoothly from 0m to 2228m, the sum ends up well over the finishing altitude.

> BTW – Can’t they ride from Charlottes Pass to Rawsons Pass (the foot of Kosci)? or is this part of the heinous NSW Parks restrictive laws??

You can ride a mountain bike from Charlottes Pass, over the headwaters of the Snowy & past Semens Hut to the base of Kosciusko…but you’d need a moutain bike as it’s only a dirt track. I’m guessing this lot would be on road bikes.

Good luck to them, that’s quite a ride!

5km vertical? Kosciusko is only 2228 metres… An impressive feat nonetheless.

Good luck Nathan and friends.

I achieved this ride in January 1998. It’s hard but enjoyable. In those days we were allowed to ride to Rawsons Pass, and I must say the return from there riding a road bike on a rough track after a long day on the bike was an exercise in pain. It hurt to sit down, or to stand up, to use the brakes or to lift my head and see where I was going.

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

Would love to do this ride, although in reverse would be much better!

BTW – Can’t they ride from Charlottes Pass to Rawsons Pass (the foot of Kosci)? or is this part of the heinous NSW Parks restrictive laws??

Done. In the process, I found the below info interesting. The website side of things for this fundraising effort is handled by a separate company, which discloses an ethics policy as well as their fee structure. Obviously, collecting money isn’t free or simple. What do people think of their fee rate? Is it reasonable?

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That sounds like bloody hard work. From sea level to the highest point in the country by non-motorised horseless velocipede.

I’ve been up Mount Kosciuszko under my own power too, it’s beautiful up there. Mind you, I only started from Thredbo, not from 230 friggin kilometres away!!

I shall donate!