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I commuted most days on a unicycle up and down Ashley Hill for several years until I left Bristol in early 2014. I have never yet worn a kilt but I keep thinking I should try it

No idea, but when I lived in a different bit of Bristol there was a guy who'd regularly unicycle up my (very hilly) street in a kilt

Wish it was operational though.

Yeah, I have never been fitter than when I was in Bristol! (And that is my undergrad building, too!)

You should come :)

Even walking in Lausanne hurts the calves.

Perhaps hence the song "Bristol Stomp"? :-)

Bath is very similar. What a spectacular building.

I'm getting winded just looking at that incline. ,_,

Uff yeah that’s a killer. I used to walk it! You probably cycled past me one day!

Fitting skeet on my feed after yours 🫶

Unfortunately half the bike lanes don’t start or end safely and people are aggressive drivers 😔 it’s a joy when you’re on good bike lanes, but the roads are badly kept! Also check out Constitution Hill on streetview for peak Bristol hill roads 😭

Oh, welcome to my old stamping ground. Yes, Bristol is a city in denial that it is hilly. The Downs are the lungs of the city but you have to go up the incredibly steep Park Street and again Whiteladies Road which just takes the piss to get there. Have a fabulous time!

Must be nice 🚲🧡

I’m here to visit a colleague at U Bristol. No talks this time!

I miss it. Birmingham's provision for cycling is poor. Half of my travel in Bristol was bike, half bus. Even with the hills, it was nice 😂 Probably why I like Amsterdam so much. Very balanced transport system. Cars don't dominate. Maybe one day we'll match the Bristol-Bath cycle highway up here.

Hello from hilly Pittsburgh which might qualify as the Bristol of Pennsylvania.

Having lived at the top of hills in both places (Crookes & Speedwell) & with both cities claiming to be built on 7 hills, I can attest they are both as bad as each other to walk and cycle in, gradient-wise! Bristol might not have trams but it does have the Bristol Bath railway path, which is great.

Not outside of the centre, they haven't. It's mostly been left to local communities to create a drop off/pick up point and they still get lobbed into the canal. While the replacement companies have definitely slowed, I think they changed as recently as January this year.

My guess is everyday is…

Worry not, Pittsburgh has the same geography and made the opposite choice, funicular and all. We got it covered.

I'm even too lazy to bike in my slightly hilly part of London most of the time. And I've been cycling since I was 3! (But in flat Holland or flat Toronto)

Almost 15 years in the city, I never managed to adopt bicycles as a transportation option before electric ones became mainstream.

Tbf if I didn't have an ebike I would absolutely die cycling Bristol. I don't know how all those on standard push bikes manage it

I absolutely agree that Bristol is one of many UK cities that should have a tram network.and doesn't.

Such bad life you had 🙂

You missed the drum and bass bike ride by a couple of weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@juanlopes.dev

Having lived in Bristol and Sheffield, I can attest they are both as bad as each other, hillwise.

I look forward to a violent rivalry between royalist and republican cycling clubs. Led by a man in proper tweed, one group cries "QUADS FOR THE KING". Another group, in ostentatiously clean canvas working wear, shouts back "THIGHS FOR A FREE BRISTOL!" Blood, unlike bikes, only moves downhill.

You gotta admire the builders of those houses... 😁😁

Ah, but the rewards at the top of Nine Tree Hill made up for the effort...

Werbs massive represent! Yeah I don't entirely miss the cycle to Population Health in Clifton every day during my PhD (better than schlepping out to Langford, mind)

Would still quite like some trams tho.

The teenagers of Liverpool would have somethign to say about that. Their Quads are 1000cc

I used to smoke (for my sins) and cycle when I lived there, I figured the hills offset the harm (hopefully)

:)ღ

Hard core workout on the way there, intense adrenaline rush on the way back.

Welcome to my world!

Woodland Road?

The bike lift is a perennial ask, though if I can manage to get 2/3 the way up before stopping, it’s probably not really needed.

Bristol is condensed madness in all aspects. I love it

Yeah, I had to cycle up 3 hills to get home from the centre of Bristol, brutal. I think it was @mooseallain.bsky.social whose son studies here and said something "it's a 10 minute walk, 15 minutes by bike"

My father was born in Bristol in 1921, and his first child, my brother Neil, was also born there, but in 1943. Neil still lives there, with his partner Christopher. Together, they walk Bristol and area constantly, with Chris getting up before dawn for a 4-5 mile walk!

And if you want to experience many of them one after another there is the Bastard Hills of North Bristol route: www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

That’s the wind — gravity is harsh but fair, but the wind is fickle and cruel.

What? *google*google*google* Oh, it's so much smaller than I expected, what a clever design!

This city justifies ebikes for everyone. Whew.

Vale St. in Bristol from my visit there last year. The steepest street in the UK!

Nah, Stroud