Recently we asked if you liked climbing on your mountain bike. Now we want to know how fast you are!
If you answered sorta fast or very fast, tell us what your secret is to fast climbing in the comments.
How Fast Do You Climb on Your MTB?
Recently we asked if you liked climbing on your mountain bike. Now we want to know how fast you are!
Once yo get into your forty’s, energy bursts start to decline, when you get into your sixties, like me, your short burst energy is just a shell of its former self. The trouble I have is that I still like to climb but, usually do my steep hills or long hills alone so I don’t have to experience a 20 something blowing me away.
62 years old and I have been climbing in my easiest gear since 1985. I have never had the knees for climbing. Slow and easy on the climbs and I get to actually walk on my own to feet the next day. The pain during and after climbs is a small price to pay for the descents.
Ride the lightest bike-wheel tire combo you can afford with the smoothest tire the trail will allow. Get a good entrance speed to get ya started and then find a cadence that can get you to the top with blowing up. If you have any left near the top give it one last go to get over the peak.
Always been a fan of Tinker – put it in a big gear and grind it out. Been doing it that way for years, and I find a ‘medium’ gear shoots me up the steeps.
Just wanna get the pain over ASAP so the faster you climb the quicker it’s over.