Originally Posted by BlazingPedals (Post 16758638)

1. Always approach a hill with an air of confidence. If the hill senses weakness, you're toast.
2. Make it a practice to attack hills. By mid-summer, they will learn to recognize you, and lie down in submission at your approach.
3. Hills are talented in that they can lie down for you but avoid doing so for your buddy who is riding alongside you. Or vice-versa.
4. Hills have short memories; so if you take the winter off, you will have to train them (see #2 ) all over again.