Originally Posted by 531Aussie
Are you heavy?
If you watch the Tour de France, you've probably noticed that the big guys, even though
they're very lean, pretty much disappear on any sort of climb. In my opinion, hills are almost
a totally different sport that riding on the flats.
I'm a fat slob "at the moment", at 89kg, and although I can "dust off" a lot of guys on the
flats, when I see the same guys on a hill ride, I have to kill myself to match their speed.
How's all that for stating the bleeding obvious??!!?
Absolutely bleeding obvious
But I could try to loose a couple of Kilo's before then. I'm 180cm and hover around the 80kg mark. So not huge, but could easily loose some of the spare tyre around the guts. I'll have dropped about 5-6kg off my bike by taking away the rack and panniers full of work gear and shoes, so hopefully that'll make a difference. I'm pretty used to the hill in low gears, as it's part of my commute home from work.