Originally Posted by
cubewheels
If you're pulling a lot on the handle bar because you're doing lots of very steep climbs or doing climbs in high gear / sprinting a lot. Then YES, you could improve your pull ups with cycling.
NO it doesn`t...Cycling and pull ups are a completely different exercise, different movement pattern. Pulling on a bicycle handlebars is not the same as pulling your entire bodyweight up on a pull up bar...The only way to get better at pull ups is to do train pull ups more often.