How do I make hills easy?

Middle low gear ride out of the saddle use your body weight and bars as leverage lean the bike over

I was just having the same thought lately. One thing I noticed: I got a pair of nice running shoes and I've been doing intervals every day on the treadmill. Boring ass shit but I've been getting a lot of PRs lately on segments I've done hundreds of times, so it must be doing something. If you hit a plateau maybe you just need to add another form of cardio.

Just persist.
I know this sounds like saying COPE but yeah just cope,
to start off with i fucking hated hills (they still kinda suck) but before long, I found myself holding a decent speed and even having enough gas left to sprint the final bit over the crest, and hit the downhill truly long dick style.
At first when hills would sap all my energy id try and zoom downhill/flat to compensate but its shit because you are still kinda exhausted and then you never really get any breaks
start by coasting down hills, chilling on flats. Saving energy for climbs, it sounds gay and slow but once you get decent at climbing and work out a pace that leaves you energy left for the rest of it, you can truly fuck.
i am a road guy but i have ridden mtb/gravel and this all applies
>Bonus based roadguy zooming info
aero is not a meme
Wear the tight clothing. Dont be a pussy. You are gonna be so much faster/less fucked after a climb
Also clipless pedals are pretty sick. Well worth falling over for no reason occasionally
Prob wouldn’t run them offroad tho

>>2039661
All there is to it.
And eat, eat, eat for energy and muscle. Anything works as long as it's not straight junk food.

>>2039660 (OP)
>How do I make hills easy?
>Easy answer
Gotta git gud, son
>Hard answer
>"It never gets easier, you only get stronger"

>>2039660 (OP)
Take the gear that you ride up the hill normally in and click it 4 over.

Do a high but constant cadence. Proceed to hit the hill on EZ mode

>>2039660 (OP)
I guess you can stand on the pedals if it gets hard enough. Use gravity to fight gravity.

ride the bicycle backwards uphill that way is just like going downhill

>>2039755
chat is this real

>>2039742
>How to destroy your drive train and knees

low gearing? what other answer would you expect. stop being a faggot that converts a perfectly working 3x bike into 1x then complain when you lack gears

zig zags help on my ebike a lot

>>2039790
yes is real but you have to reverse your gears too for it to work

>>2039660 (OP)
That guy on YouTube who has bicycled all over the world says that cycling up a hill should be no more difficult than cycling on the flats if you have a sufficiently low gear.

>>2039660 (OP)
>How do I make hills easy?
it never gets easier; you just go slower.

>>2039967
then he's retarded, because on flats there's no force pulling you back

>>2039660 (OP)
go skelly mode + easy gearing

>>2039967
another guy on YouTube says gearing doesn't change shit. You need the same power to go up the same grade at the same speed, regardless of your gear.
All a lower gear does is allow you to ride slower.

>>2040528
This is true because power is power, there is a higher baseline torque requirement because riding uphill adds fighting gravity to the equation but the power required to apply that torque remains. That means 746w will always feel like 746w, even on the flats, regardless of the grade, wind, or any other resistance, how much of that power translates to actual speed or climbing rate will greatly differ but same wattage will always feel the same.
>>2040227
That's why this anon is the most correct. The human adapts their riding speed based on effort first.