Hacks To Improve Your Bike Climbs
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, we share our tips for improving your mountain bike climbs. Learn about bike setup, component choices, and suspension settings to make your uphill climbs more efficient. We’ll also talk about training techniques, body positioning, and mental tricks that will melt climbs away in no time.
This episode is sponsored by Outerbike.
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| 1:13.3 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 1:19.6 | My name is Jeff, and today Aaron and I are going to be sharing our tips for becoming a better climber on your mountain bike. |
| 1:22.0 | We actually had a very, very similar discussion on Facebook live a few weeks back. So if you joined us for that |
| 1:29.9 | conversation, this will just be a repeat. But for those of you who missed it, we think this is |
| 1:35.8 | really good content. So we wanted to share it in podcast format as well. So I'm kind of a weird guy |
| 1:42.6 | because I like climbing on my mountain bike. Most people, I think, |
| 1:47.3 | see it as a necessary evil when they're mountain biking. But for me, it's probably my area of |
| 1:52.2 | strength more so than descending. So I'm stoked to talk about this. We're going to start off |
| 1:57.0 | and kind of go through these tips in order of maybe ease of implementation, for lack of a |
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