hills paradox
hi friends
i love touring especially in panoramic places ,not fully loaded touring ,lets say carrying 4-5 extra kilograms 30 lbs including bike
The paradox is that most beautiful landscape happen to be on mountains, but when climbing with bike continuous hills of at least 10miles in a sunny road at very low speed like 4ph it becomes boring ,sometimes feels like torture ..it even makes walking seem more efficient and enjoyable ..yes i believe to enjoy biking you need a minimum speed to feel air touching you and not make too much effort however to get reasonable speed like 10mph on very long hills you need to possess and spend racer energy! exhausting and not comform to tourer mindset
i need opinion and advice of people having experience touring long climbs and passes (more than 10miles), is it a matter of training? bike choice?destination? or is it just a daydream to do touring in long climbs so most tourers need to avoid them
thank you
Last edited by choumichou; 09-03-14 at 04:25 AM.