Tuesday, 19 May 2015

O’Neil Road (Beaconsfield) climb review

Distance: 3.2 km
Average Gradient: 3.3%
Elevation gain: 109 metres
Category: 4
Traffic:Light traffic
Terrain: Residential/farmland
Road Surface: Good
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https://www.strava.com/segments/1966183
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This picturesque climb is quite undulating, and is a lot more challenging than the average gradient suggests.  This climb joins onto Cardinia’s most iconic climb “Payne Road”.
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The climb starts near the intersection of the Princess Highway & O’Neil Road
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You will travel through a newish housing estate for the first 1.2km’s.  The gradient varies with gradients pushing upwards of 7% at times
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There is a sweeping right hand bend.  As soon as you turn into the corner the landscape dramatically changes and you leave behind Suburbia and enter the countryside as you will enjoy a dip in the road over the next 300 metres
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As you push through a sweeping left hand turn the road rises and the next 500 metres are the hardest part of the climb peaking at 12%.
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Although painful, the scenic through here is quite dramatic
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The road flattens as you pass LL Road and there is one last sweeping left hand corner until you reach the final straight
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The remainder of the road is quite undulating until you reach the end of the climb at the intersection of Payne Road
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