| While a helmet light will shine where you're looking, the beam won't bend around tight switchbacks and sharp turns. |
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| With the rear end of the bike being so light the F1 is a must on UK courses making easy work of tight switchbacks. |
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| We follow the distant progress of our horses as they make their way up the steep switchbacks to the pass. |
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| The front end typically feels like a chopper when you're climbing, making it next to impossible to negotiate hairpin switchbacks. |
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| I made it down to the road crossing quicker than normal, even managing a pedal stroke or two through the switchbacks. |
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| Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks. |
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| On the first time up the switchbacks, Greenwood attacked with only two other riders able to follow. |
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| Several hours' worth of calf-busting switchbacks brought us to the beachside campsite at Huishnish, on the far western extremity of Harris. |
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| I would sit on the roofs of listing, overloaded trucks grinding up and down hundreds of switchbacks across the gorge-scarred Yunnan province. |
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| At one point, we zipped through 22 hairpin bends of tightly curled switchbacks and descended more than 10,000 ft. |
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| In the morning we had to ride right back up the road to all those switchbacks. |
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| He stops, lets out a throaty chortle, and starts trucking straight uphill, cutting the switchbacks. |
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| I am amazed at how he can maneuver it through tight ancient towns or down the switchbacks of a mountain. |
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| The road is a bunch of switchbacks now, which tells you it's near the top of a climb. |
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| A series of terrifying sandy switchbacks zigzag thousands of feet below us, for miles. |
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| Then we freewheeled down countless switchbacks to Sangdu, nestled in the corner of a wide earthy valley dotted with ponies, pigs and yaks. |
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| I find it, and soon I'm climbing up switchbacks on the north side of the canyon. |
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| The course then ended up in a series of traverses across the mountainside and switchbacks, bringing it to the finish. |
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| It's much closer to the sort of European style of roads, with the switchbacks and the corners and all that. |
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| We rode through a stream, enjoyed a few final bursts of speed and skidding switchbacks and freewheeled into the shanty town of Yolosa. |
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| So whether you're descending a mountain of switchbacks or just trying to park in San Francisco, you can ease your mind. |
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| The gates were protected by an ingenious system of re-entrants and switchbacks, designed to lead any attacker backward and forward under a rain of missiles. |
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| The road ribboned down the steepest slopes in switchbacks so convoluted that I continually met Christina almost head-on but with my eyes level with her pedals. |
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| A former sheep trail was converted into a road to the mine, but it required 38 switchbacks to climb the steep mountain. |
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| A GRAVEL road winds up in snowy switchbacks, past the tree line, to a model of efficiency rare in this impoverished Central Asian nation. |
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| Andorra lay some 200km ahead and the road, describing sweeping switchbacks, was rising fast to meet the Pyrenees. |
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| On a series of switchbacks, I could feel the car tightening up as I pushed harder through each series of bends. |
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| The last part of the trail is generally downhill with several switchbacks to reduce the steepness. |
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| The real distances are often larger, especially when there are a lot of switchbacks. |
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| A number of switchbacks like this will get you to the top of the hill with minimal expenditure of energy. |
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| Quite simply, looking back on the dramatic switchbacks you've just climbed is the best feeling ever! |
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| After crossing the gritty plain where the outriding developments of greater Los Angeles creep inexorably outward, the road climbed steeply, all curves and switchbacks. |
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| The road up to Courchevel is a classic series of tight alpine switchbacks, though the patches of pine forest which will at least provide a modicum of shade. |
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| The effort of climbing the long, arduous switchbacks to the Keansani Pass was eased by the glorious view back down the valley every time we paused for breath. |
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| When I was descending down from the main climb I was certain that I had somehow missed the finish but I finally saw part of the caravan about 10 switchbacks up the road. |
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| From the fast steep rock strewn chutes of the top section, the tight switchbacks above the road crossing to the mud rocks and roots of the bottom section, there is no let up. |
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| This old fire road has nice switchbacks along three miles of excellent dirt road, and it's all one-way so riders don't have to worry about traffic. |
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| It then switchbacks up a steep, rocky slope to an alpine cirque. |
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| Stops and starts, getting to highway speeds and handling switchbacks, the automatic does all that as well as the manual and with very little, if any, hunting for gears. |
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| Expect fantastic views as you speed through the mountains, but if you are susceptible to carsickness, plan accordingly, as you'll encounter switchbacks and curves in the road. |
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| The road in and out of Iskut is Highway 37, a narrow, mostly paved stretch of winding road that curves along mountain valleys and at one point drops down a series of switchbacks to a crossing on the Stikine River. |
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| On a bad day, especially in the winter snow, hundreds of lorries form automotive centipedes that stretch 15km down the switchbacks at either end of the tunnel. |
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| His descriptions of dropping like a stone over dirt, gravel and bare rocks, round blind turns and switchbacks, are a joy to read. Mr Penn lightly weaves bike lore throughout. |
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| The road from Sichuan is not as high, but also not as smooth: a series of switchbacks, often blocked by rock slides, with rain, snow and lorries posing additional hazards. |
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| As it emerges from the trees, the trail steepens into a series of challenging switchbacks. |
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| Going across the plateau where the 2001 lava stopped and a series of switchbacks crossing the evocative 1983 lava flow, with fabulous phototaking opportunities. |
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| The tunnel would let anonymous express trains zoom through the belly of the mountain, saving the 20 minutes that I so thoroughly enjoy losing in the switchbacks. |
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| Most seemed to take a steep path up the mountainside to Diamond Head Road, their pale boards, carried on their heads, moving steadily, skeg first, through the switchbacks. |
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| The tour is an incredible amount of switchbacks, climbing and descending. |
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| The road goes past the Great Arch of Zion, which is a natural photo stop, before proceeding up a series of switchbacks and through an incredible tunnel that has been blasted into the rocks. |
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