What happens when you try to cycle up a 31% grade...

[DrSmile]

You tip over!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5j2TzDTrM

I totally want to go there and do that now.

At the end of this vid you get a sense of the grade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqPJ7WmPfi4

[TurboMike]

If those guys had hybrid bikes, this would never have happened!

:P

[Cscat87]

That is nuts. I remember biking up some steep inclines as a kid with my wal-mart mountain bike but nothing this extreme. Props to whoever made it up, wow.

[lithium]

Looks like torture to me.

[twizzle]

thats insane! after researching that half-iron man, i found out they actually have deca-triathalons (not in MD or on this route, but still) which is absolutely INSANE. the one woman claimed to finish the deca with only 8.5 hours of sleep....wtf?!@$#!