Fat Boab Posted August 28, 2017 Share Such a beautiful country.Last I was there was when we used to live in the UK. And the people make up for the shitty weather ....you're welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyMartin Posted August 28, 2017 Share Clearly time to hang up the skinny wheels and go mountain biking!!I went the other way. Got sick of roadies showing up on rides and killing me on the hills. I asked around and was told pushing the harder gears on a road bike was the shiz. Bought a road bike and fell in love with it. Sold off my last mtb this month. Long Wheel Base 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgens Smit Posted August 28, 2017 Share I went the other way. Got sick of roadies showing up on rides and killing me on the hills. I asked around and was told pushing the harder gears on a road bike was the shiz. Bought a road bike and fell in love with it. Sold off my last mtb this month. Good man! We need more people like you in the world Edited August 28, 2017 by Jurgens Smit Long Wheel Base 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppi Posted August 28, 2017 Share I went the other way. Got sick of roadies showing up on rides and killing me on the hills. I asked around and was told pushing the harder gears on a road bike was the shiz. Bought a road bike and fell in love with it. Sold off my last mtb this month.You will regret that one day........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie Stewart Posted August 28, 2017 Share I am not a roadie, so this is purely my own experience, but I joined Viva gym in June, and they have the MyRide ICG virtual spinning classes. I am currently training for K2C, so I attend this 4 times a week. In these classes, the virtual instructor will include at least 3 -4 sets of jumps ranging between 6 - 10 reps per set. The session include what they refer to as "running" where you are standing on a "descent". They also do standing accelerations, where the resistance is substantially increased to simulate a rather big climb (think Passo Pordoi or Grossglockner) and mixed together with increased cadence for intervals of 30 -60 seconds a pop for at least 5 reps in a set of 2. The only rest in these sets is sitting and reducing cadence to say 65 from about 85-90. Finally, just for kicks they throw in a standing climb at about 75 RPM for 2 minutes every now and again. Makes for lots of grunting, at least on my part.As I said I am no roadie, but doing this has made H U G E differences to my overall strength and climbing. This weekend I did a 80km loop which included Jonkershoek about half way in. I felt strong on the climbs, and never fatigued. At one stage as I was ascending Devonvalley, I managed to fit in some jumps, and I felt good going up.It almost makes me want to get a road bike to train on during summer. Escapee.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Wakefield Posted August 28, 2017 Share Standing wastes a lot of energy. Learn to climb seated and perfect your pull/push sequence with your legs Not in all cases, often standing like that is used as a recovery and lowers the intensity and allows you once seated again to keep momentum. You do however have to train that. I personally do it a lot and has significant benefits. I train a lot standing on climbs and certain drills I do are just that, long standing efforts on climbs and it builds more muscle as it uses a slightly different muscle group to seated and uses a slightly different energy system and is very effective when done correctly. People find it hard cause they never train it and therefore they battle with it. I prescribe a fair amount in pre season training to certain athletes. It has a lot of benefits when done correctly. Edited August 28, 2017 by J Wakefield Jurgens Smit, Patchelicious, Underachiever and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patchelicious Posted August 28, 2017 Share Not in all cases, often standing like that is used as a recovery and lowers the intensity and allows you once seated again to keep momentum. You do however have to train that. I personally do it a lot and has significant benefits. I train a lot standing on climbs and certain drills I do are just that, long standing efforts on climbs and it builds more muscle as it uses a slightly different muscle group to seated and uses a slightly different energy system and is very effective when done correctly. People find it hard cause they never train it and therefore they battle with it. I prescribe a fair amount in pre season training to certain athletes. It has a lot of benefits when done correctly.When I started riding I was told to stay seated to "build hip strength", was riding with a lot of try-athletes at the time. But as things progressed, I started enjoying standing every now and again. Then as the weight came off, it became even easier. I then started practicing, 5mins standing at a time, but only at just above threshold. Now that has become an invaluable "recovery" position. When the guys are attacking up the hills, its seated chasing 100%, but as soon as it eases off a little, its out of the saddle, recovering quick for the next seated surge. J Wakefield 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J∆kk∆ls Posted August 28, 2017 Share I only ever climb out the saddle when accelerating or riding the SS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanD Posted August 28, 2017 Share Running. I run trail and when I am in a position from a conditioning perspective, where anything under 15k does not hurt then my leg strength is good when climbing on the bike. Core. I need a strong core to transfer power well on the bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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