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Pete's Best of Britain

Peter Kettle

Role Ride Engineer
Favourite bike: KICKR BIKE

If you’ve ridden just about any ride in FulGaz, you’ve experienced Pete’s work. Initially, he contributed some rides himself, but before long, his involvement grew, and for over three years now, he’s been working away on the ride data itself.

You can check out his many rides in FulGaz by searching for ‘Kettle’.

LOCHIE MCLOCHFACE

A pleasant rolling ride along private roads on the northern shores of Loch Katrine, from Stronachlachar to the Loch Katrine Visitor Centre. There are spectacular views of the Trossachs hills throughout the ride. There is just one short steep climb at around 8.5Km/5 miles. Loch Katrine supplies the drinking water for the city of Glasgow, up to 230 million litres per day.

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20.99km

DISTANCE

0:53:29

DURATION

297m

ELEVATION

OC-45 CôTE DE PARK RASH, TOUR DE YORKSHIRE 2018

Tackle the fearsome and relentless Côte de Park Rash just a few hours before the TdY peloton. Official UK Climbs #45. It gets slightly easier after the two 25% hairpins, but there are several more steep sections following, before the final climb bites at 20% with just 500 metres to go. Look out for Dave Brailsford sitting down reading the newspaper just after you start the KOM climb. The large overhanging limestone rock face near the start of the ride is called Kilnsey Crag, a popular challenge for rock climbers.

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10.65km

DISTANCE

0:39:27

DURATION

372m

ELEVATION

OC-189 THE LLANBERIS PASS

A long but comparatively easy climb through the Llanberis Pass, Official Climbs #189, riding southeast into the early morning sunrise. Return via Beddgelert, following the route of the Welsh Highland Railway as far as Waunfawr before the final climb back to your starting point. At the start of the ride there are glimpses of former slate quarries, relics of Wales' industrial past. Snowdon, Wales' highest peak, is always on your right on this clockwise loop through the practically deserted Snowdonia National Park in early Feb 2020.

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46.06km

DISTANCE

1:58:11

DURATION

659m

ELEVATION

GOLDFINGER

A ride to Goldfinger's Country Club. Stoke Park golf club appears in several blockbuster movies, with Pinewood Studios located just a few miles away. Possibly the most famous sequence of all is the golf match between James Bond and Auric Goldfinger, where we meet the evil henchman Oddjob. "Do you expect me to walk?" "No Mr Bond, I expect you to ride".

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26.07km

DISTANCE

1:04:49

DURATION

192m

ELEVATION

THIS WAY UP - ZIG ZAG HILL (OC-102) AND GOLD HILL (OC-101)

If you're a Fulgaz'er of more mature years, you may remember the Hovis "Boy on the Bike" TV advertisement from 1973. Here's your chance to ride up that impossibly steep hill in Shaftesbury. But before that, enjoy the meandering climb up Zig Zag Hill (OC-102) to Compton Abbas airfield, followed by a fast swoop down to Melbury Abbas. Spin your legs along some gently rolling English lanes as you swing round to head north back to Shaftesbury. The steep cobbles of Gold Hill (OC-101) await you, briefly visible in the distance as you ride through 17Km. Fulgaz. As good today as it's always been.

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