How to cycle up a STEEP hill. 5 tips! Ft Bushcombe Lane
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2024
- In this video you will learn 5 great tips to help you start cycling up extremely steep climbs on your road bike. And if you watch until the end you'll get a bonus 6th tip.
I apply all these tips as I cycle up the notoriously steep and brutal climb of Bushcombe Lane near Cheltenham Spa. A 30% climb which is part of Simon Warren's another 100 climbs book. And You'll be able to see all my power and heart rate data as its over laid on the screen for you to enjoy.
This video is filmed on the GoPro Max 360 camera.
If you want to study climbs before you get to the climb on VeloViewer, go on google and search the name of the climb you're after and followed by VeloViewer. For example 'Hardknott Pass VeloViewer'
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Timecodes
0:00 - Tip 1
1:20 - Tip 2
2:39 - Bushcombe Lane
5:05 - Tip 3
5:54 - Tip 4
7:45 - Salter's Lane
9:23 - Tip 5
10:41 - Bonus Tip 6 - Sport
This is toughest hill in country a absolute beast!! Great effort.
Thanks mate. It is brutal!
One of the toughest but I’ve found a few tougher. Rhwir road, Abdon Burf are insane.
Yes Rhwir road is near my way Blaenavon? haven't rode it but heard its a tough one.
@@JSC131 that’s the one. If it’s near it’d be a great hill to use to get stronger.
Some good tips 👍🚴
Thanks mate. Glad you found some of the tips useful 👍🚴♂️
Rode that hill about 10 times it was always the 1st hill on the Cotswold Corker back in the 90s & 2000s. Only managed to ride up it without stopping two times. As the ride was usually late Feb it was often wet or icy leading to rear wheel spin. The 2 times I was successful it was bone dry.
I would not want to ride that climb in icy conditions 😳
That’d terrify me! It’s bad enough in the dry!
Tip no 1.1 for climbing get yourself a set of low profile tyres, as that's impacting gearing as much as the cassette and the chain rings.
Low profile? What do you mean? Narrower tyre?
@@andrewon2wheels tyre that is not tall, reducing circumference as that's what changes gearing.
There's a hill in my neighborhood that I'm unable to climb despite my low gearing (38t chainring, 48t cassette). It's so steep when I put enough power in to move forward, the bike wheelies and I can't stay straight. I know it's a skill issue, I need to practice standing up at low speeds to get my weight forward on the bike and keep the front down.
What’s the name of the climb?
@@andrewon2wheels It's not a named climb, just a random road in my neighborhood. It's only 0.45 miles long but the first section is crazy steep. I'll have to measure it and see exactly
@@Cokecanninja let me know when you’ve checked.
Or get yourself a mid drive e-bike. Fantastic on steep hills and you still get your heart rate up which it’s all about.
I have an e-bike as well (it’s out of action atm though as it won’t turn on). They’re great fun too. Can absolutely get a good work out of them as well if you use the different assist levels.
Rear hub drive would be more beneficial for climbing, increasing weight distribution at the rear, when you need traction out of saddle.
At 64 and over 15 stone i think i will give that one a miss lol!!
Last year when I tried Bushcombe lane, I was 15stone.
Having seriously easy gearing makes moving at that gradient possible.
@joieDeVivreDesi fair play mate! 🙌🚴♂️💪🔥
What’s your favourite steep climb you ride up?
when u sais u went away and built power how did you do that??
Hey harry
Good question, one which in time I should go into more detail in a video.
The short answer is I kept going to steep hills and kept trying to get up them and get up them quicker. On my commute back home from work I would purposely add in a steep hill or 2, two or three times a week.
Repeatedly doing that made my legs and cardiovascular system get stronger over months.
@@andrewon2wheels brilliant thanks for the reply love the climbs my self but would like to get stronger
@@harrydelaney6623 just keep hitting the hills. The simplest and best way to get stronger at them.
You get good at what you repeatedly do.
For practice, get a set of heavy, high rolling resistance tyres, something that will add +30 watts to your average effort at 18mph.
Or get yourself an electric moped (chEat bike) and be a lazy
Where is the satisfaction with that?