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Hills Are NOT Harder Than Cycling On The Flat (Says Science) (www.youtube.com)
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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Care to explain why? I’m not going to watch some time-consuming video on a spy platform to find out.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

The TL;DW is that bike gears are often not low enough.

If you give me a lever long enough, and all that.

The assumption here, though, is that climbing is all you care about, and not an average speed across a ride.

I'm by no means fast but I certainly won't make it to the pub for lunch if my gearing was as low as it would need to be for me to make it up a hill using the same amount of effort if expend to travel moderately on the flat...