The Beast

Distance: 2.5781 km
Ascent: 268.6 metres
Avg Grade: 10.3%
Ridden by: 3054 riders
Strava

Its name is well-deserved, this climb dishes out the pain of 15% average for 1.5 km!

Being on Lantau, this climb is relatively traffic-free and can be ridden at any time of day. Not a good one to do in the middle of the day in the summer!

Start Location

SIRS Strava Leaderboard

  • NameTimeDate
    Olaf K.10:432 Apr 2018
    Kris G.10:4616 Oct 2019
    Fred C.11:3031 Aug 2013
    Paul “Redders” R.11:419 May 2017
    Nick A.11:437 Oct 2017
    Steven B.11:4419 May 2018
    Clinton L.11:5824 Aug 2013
    Paul W.12:024 Apr 2016
    Rupert G.12:0312 Jul 2014
    Ed C.12:0522 Jun 2013
    Gareth B.12:089 Apr 2016
    The Brownie B.12:108 Feb 2015
    Rowdie L.12:1216 Jan 2014
    Michael M.12:1630 Sep 2012
    Tobias C.12:1830 Apr 2020
  • NameTimeDate
    Lila C.00:15:491 May 2020
    Jane G.00:16:0031 Mar 2018
    Jcy H.00:16:0316 Mar 2019
    Oona B.00:17:2329 Sep 2018
    Elba 👯‍♀️ C.00:17:269 Nov 2019
    Brenda H.00:21:3618 Dec 2017
    Sarah L.00:48:0122 Jul 2017

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