Originally Posted by
Kontact
It takes more energy to accelerate, but all of that is used up decelerating. It isn't transferred to the external system of bike and hill to produce a greater velocity - that's like a perpetual motion machine. It just produces a changes the accel/decel curves - not the net velocity.
You mean that it is kinetic energy that is "used up" as a force applied against the forces of drag and resistance. Which is how you derive terminal velocity.