Tour du Baw Baw



 

 Lew seems to have quite a contingent for his annual Tour du Baw Baw tomorrow.

 

CyclingTips has provided some reconnaissance data:

Local folklore says the hard part of Mt Baw Baw is the final 6km from the gatehouse to the summit which has an elevation gain of 780m. The average gradient is 11.3% with some parts reaching 20%. That doesn’t include the 100km lactic slapfest of racing over some big rollers prior to hitting the Big Kahuna. To put this into context, Alpe d’Huez is 13.8km at an average of 7.9%. A “hors category” climb typically has an elevation gain of around 1500m+, the steepness of Baw Baw would most definitely classify it as a HC climb