Tips for Climbing on a Mountain Bike
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We share our tips for becoming a better mountain bike climber including equipment selection, technique, and mental hacks for getting to the top of the hill faster.
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| 0:31.3 | next week with a brand new show. Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. 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. |
| 0:44.6 | We actually had a very, very similar discussion on Facebook live a few weeks back. So if you joined us for that conversation, this will just be a repeat. But for |
| 0:56.1 | those of you who missed it, we think this is really good content. So we wanted to share it in |
| 1:01.1 | podcast format as well. So I'm kind of a weird guy because I like climbing on my mountain bike. |
| 1:08.3 | Most people, I think, see it as a necessary evil when they're |
| 1:12.3 | mountain biking. But for me, it's probably my area of strength more so than descending. So I'm |
| 1:17.2 | stoked to talk about this. We're going to start off and kind of go through these tips in order |
| 1:22.3 | of maybe ease of implementation, for lack of a better word. You know, a lot of people are going to groan and say, |
| 1:29.3 | you know, I know what I need to do and it's, you know, lose weight and practice more. Yep, |
| 1:35.0 | practice more and do all the hard stuff. So we're going to take it easy on you. We're going to ease you |
| 1:39.4 | into the guilt and start off by talking about what you can do to make your bike better for climbing. |
| 1:47.0 | So let's start with bike geometry. What's a quick rundown for what kind of geometry you should |
| 1:53.1 | be looking for for a bike that climbs really well? Yeah. So basically, you know, bike geometries |
| 1:59.3 | vary across a spectrum. And on one end of the spectrum, you know, bike geometries vary across a spectrum. |
| 2:02.2 | And on one end of the spectrum, you have your cross-country race bikes with very steep |
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