Bergen
Distance: 68.33 km
Elevation Gain: 1011 m
Elevation Loss: 1009 m
Difficulty:
764 (Hard)
FIETS Index: 1.84 FIETS
Avg Grade: 4.05 %
Max cat climb: 2
Min elevation: 0 m
Max elevation: 455 m
Ride Category:
Hilly
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The old Hardanger road, now County Road 49, climbs from the Hardangerfjord in Kvam over the Kvamskogen plateau and drops towards Bergen, in Vestland, Norway. Its most famous stretch is Tokagjelet, a road carved into the side of a gorge between 1903 and 1907, much of it by men working on ropes. Tunnels took the traffic away in the 1950s, and the old road has been protected since 2009. Bergen, where the ride ends, hosted the 2017 road world championships, at which Peter Sagan beat Norway’s Alexander Kristoff to become the first man to win three titles in a row.
This ride starts at Øvsthus, on the fjord west of Norheimsund, and climbs through Tokagjelet to Kvamskogen, the plateau where people from Bergen have long had their holiday cabins and ski slopes. It then drops through Samnanger to the sea and follows the fjord to Arna before crossing into the city. The ride ends in Sandviken, just past Gamle Bergen, an open-air museum of 18th- and 19th-century timber houses moved here from around the city.
