Originally Posted by icyclist

>Yeah thats me on an incline, while everyone else rides 100 miles per hour past me.<

1) OK - questions, OP: are you saying you ride w/ other people and you can't keep up with them? Or do you see other people on the same sort of bike as yours passing you? Or were you just using hyperbole and you actually ride alone up hills?

If you ride with others you do have a way to gauge your own strength/endurance. If you ride alone, you don't know how strong you are compared to others.

2) >it's been over a month and I'm still having to walk up the super steep hills.<

A month isn't that long, and by super steep hills, how steep are they? Seven percent, 10%, 12%, 15%? I doubt many people on any bike, much less single-geared bikes, are going to want to and/or enjoy riding up hills with a 10% or more grade.

So how steep do you think your hills are?

>Im probablly way less fit than I could be and maybe if i just keep at it, in another couple weeks Ill get better.<

I think you've answered your own concerns. You say you're "way less fit than" than you could be, so you should not be upset that you can't take a single-geared bike up a "super steep" hill. Keep riding to build strength and endurance.

It's possible that no matter how much more fit you become, you may never be able to make it up extremely steep hills. You might not have the physiology for it - some people just don't have the strength to weight ratio to let them climb steep hills on any sort of bike; you might weigh too much at the moment.

But you probably just haven't given yourself enough time, particularly if you are trying to gain the heights of "super steep" hills. Especially if you are "way less fit" than you could be.

Revive this thread, after you've become as fit as you want to be or can be, and report on how you're doing.