Название | : | Hills Are NOT Harder Than Cycling On The Flat (Says Science) |
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It took me bmany/b years to enjoy riding up hills! Like most people, I hated thembrbrMy first road bike was handed down to me as a young teen It was an old steel racing bike with 53-42 tooth front chainrings and a 13-21 tooth cassette I loved riding it because it felt so fast, but as soon as I got to a steep hill, I'd often need to get off and walk to the topbrbrAll along, I figured I just needed to get stronger, so I persisted with that vintage bike for years and years But looking back, I was already super strong, I was already super light, and I was always up for a challenge Why were hills so damn hard?!brbrIt wasn't until I truly understood mechanical advantage that I realised that hills were hard NOT because I was inadequate but because I didn't have low enough gear ratios on my bike 😅 Comment from : CYCLINGABOUT |
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It's tough being a 110-120kg male and enjoy uphill ngl May be I need to hit the gym for leg training Comment from : Александр Руденко |
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You can give me a fixed gear and straps and ill be tripling my power output to 500 watts while maintaining speed Yes bit more of a workout but at least I don't look like a morron taking 5 minutes to get up a 100 metre hill Comment from : Matthijs |
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They are harder because if you stop pedaling you fall over Comment from : Mr How |
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Someone tell elon hes doing it wrong 😂😂 Comment from : 🏴Luminous Fractal |
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Ermm pushing mass against gravity takes more energy Pretty sure 😂 Comment from : 🏴Luminous Fractal |
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Nice try but riding uphill is harder, so much in fact, I avoid it from the getgo Bike and uphill? That's not mobility, that's a sport I want to get from A to B, not sweaty and ripped What a load of bullcrap Comment from : O S |
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So with your data regarding this what diameter tyres and rims were used for you research? brregards Tracy Comment from : Trasea |
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great explanation i still hate hills :) Comment from : MTGPureStandardBrew |
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Crap video and metric nonsense! Comment from : Karl Greene |
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What a lowIQ video Comment from : Maalik Serebryakov |
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One crucial thing this video 'forgets': even though with a lower gear the energy output per pedal is the same, it requires more pedalling per distance to go the same distance So in the end, more energy was spent on the same distance So yes, biking uphill bis/b harder Comment from : theemutsenfabriek |
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Still can’t escape physics Lower gear is slower making a given distance longer, ie more energy is required aka is “harder” Might just be something so obvious there was no point in mentioning itbrbrAlso when balance becomes an issue you’ll start expending energy exponentially I noticed this the next morning when my upper body is sore, someone with your experienced level and conditioning likely won’t even notice this but you’ll muscle mass is a giveaway Comment from : cynic5581 |
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Technically speaking and in reality it’s harder You can’t ignore the laws of physics just like how some moronic people dismiss biology when it comes to gender You should have said it’s harder but there’s a way to make it easier Comment from : Jan Ban Joovi |
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Aside from the simple fact that hills require constant effort rather than coasting and soft-pedalling, for me it's historically been mostly a matter of psychology It's frustrating to be forced to move so slowly, but lately I've just become more patient I recognise that I can't make it up the slope quickly and am at peace with the fact I'll still put in effort, but I'm not going to try and make it a race — especially when I'm already pushing max heartrate Comment from : Ostsol |
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This does not take note of aerodynamic advantage of lower positions It also does not recognize stress on knees which is greatly reduced on flat ground My knees are totally shot Hills kill me and I can time trial at 25mph Comment from : Doug Miller |
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no cooling Comment from : Doug Miller |
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according to BS hills are not harder Comment from : Doug Miller |
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I recognize your voice from another channel that subscribe to Don't you also do video games? It's either that or I can't remember what it is but you have a very distinct voice and I know you have another channel I just got into e-bike building and biking I love biking and so I'm going to try to do the backpacking biking trip with your guides Comment from : Jonathan Byrd |
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You're a Freak! Comment from : CaptainRScott |
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l don't get what you are saying Flat pedals on climb is your topic lt becomes technical and difficult to understand MAKE IT SIMPLE!!!! Comment from : Edilberto Oreta |
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it is hard on cars too Comment from : Eduardo Espinoza |
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In my city, with the tropical weather and only flat surfaces, every time I get out the house feels like a climb, so hot and windy, definitely makes flat hard and this kinda makes me ready when I have to ride steep sections in a different city Comment from : João Guilherme Vasconcelos |
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So, I have the lowest gear ratio around 072 Is that considered good for casual hill climbing? Comment from : ezmix |
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It's year 10 physics When you go uphill, you are accelerating because gravity is 98m per second squared, so to go up, you need to out accelerate gravity by adding energy On flat ground you are only overcoming friction Comment from : Max Ring |
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Is this 24 inch bike good for 8 year old boy 53 inches or 442 feet Comment from : Katherine Dicks |
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Your first assumption is completely weong! Running at the same speed on a flat surface vs an uphill requires different power You need more power uphill Comment from : MrNatsuka |
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Its is harder if you seat are get down in position Comment from : AldriTV Official |
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Fixedgear is a lot easier in a uphill 👌 Comment from : Horuhe |
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Bro but you will travel less uphill that's why its harder Fuck logic video Comment from : olomarfarg |
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I discovered the joy of hills on the Costa Brava Shortly after I cycled on Corsica and over the Italian Alps Lots of great days of climbing and enjoying mountain views Comment from : Graeme MacDermid |
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Far to serious man ,and I'm not going to by a bike just for lower gears I chang them Comment from : martin wallis |
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Being in shape is a decent starting place Comment from : Cougar Sand |
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This video sums up "WHY Hills Are Harder Than Cycling On The Flat" very well Just incorretly titled Comment from : Cem Çankaya |
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There is way more to analyzing the physics of a bicyclist climbing a hill than calculating mechanical advantage When you are riding on a flat you are expending energy to overcome inertia of yourself and the bicycle (in theory, you only do this when you start at an initial speed of zero) Once you hit a constant speed you are overcoming the rolling resistance of your tires and any friction in your hubs, crankset, etc Add to that overcoming the drag on your body and bike owing to moving through the air When you climb a hill, all these elements are still present but in addition to that you are performing work: raising your bicycle /body mass against the gravitational field of the earth as you gain elevation This component is completely absent when you are on flats, but becomes overwhelming when you are climbing a steep hill Incidentally, a hill is essentially a ramp, which is another form of mechanical advantage It spreads the work of moving a mass a certain elevation against the gravitational field and spreads it out over time and distance The very steep hill the rider couldn't climb was in essence the same as a poor choice of gears Comment from : Kassandra |
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your bike is 1 speed???? Comment from : Biz Comment |
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Hills always psych me out 😬 Comment from : Peace4777 |
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The world always looks better from above!!! Comment from : Marek |
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Although your output remains the same your watts per mile ratio will be greatly increased Therefore, hills are harder Comment from : Barry Holt |
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Title is total clickbait and video doesn't make much sensebrbrYour claim is that you can achieve the same power output on a gradient by decreasing speed and gear ratio However, as you mention in the video, it is clearly much harder to balance at slow speeds and on a gradient Therefore, it is harder to cycle up hills, because more effort is required for the same work donebrbrIt also causes more exertion, for any cyclist, because you are engaging your core much, much more This is why beginners hate hills: they have not yet learned proper core activation But, just because you get better at this over time, doesn't mean it becomes completely effortless brbrI fail to see the point of this videobrbrEdit: good work on gaming the algorithm though 😄 Comment from : toast_on_toast |
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thank youvery useful Comment from : DZ Trip |
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According to real physics, when you move sideways, you have not actually done anything at all, but when you climb, you increase your potential energy Rollling resistance and air resistance are near zero at low velocity Comment from : Bjorn Langoren |
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Requires more force to go uphill, you are overcoming gravity Force time distance is energy, energy divided by time is power So you consume more power over the same time period (same speed) Hence 1 grade you consume more power Video is wrong as it violates basic physics Comment from : MrDeadLifts |
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You talk of power output (instantaneous) but fail to consider that going uphill, due to the lower speed you will obviouly expend much more time for the same same distance covered, therefore expendending a lot more energy Pedalling at 150 watts output for 15 minutes will tire you far less than pedalling at the same power output for 1 hour Also, to ride uphill comfortably, most people would have to ride so slowly that they'd be better off walking Comment from : Patrick S_W |
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Science has never tried to complete Pittsburgh's Dirty Dozen Comment from : jones jones |
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It's harder No excuses are needed Bringing mass on upper elevation takes more energy and that's it and there are many reasons why this happens Comment from : j j |
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Uphill reduces speed much faster if your power output is not exactly stable and that is impossible to maintain And no matter what cadence its always present If you rise cadence further you start losing power to inner efficiency of moving legs Comment from : j j |
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INCORRECT brbrBefore you claim to invoke a scientific authority for your baseless assertions, do some basic mathematics brbrHere’s a ONE WORD spanner in your works brbrMomentum brbrNice try at clickbait brUnsubscribed and blocked Comment from : Colin Robinson |
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@1:55 Fatbike needed! Comment from : C S |
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Whatever the numbers say my legs wont agree 😅 Comment from : minobg79 |
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Great content, thanks 👌 Comment from : René Hoffmann |
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Hills are not harder than the flat with an E-Bike 😂 Comment from : Simon Sanchez |
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Are you bubs games??? Comment from : Hever Diaz |
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Imma just walk it Comment from : Seymour Kitty |
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Thumbs down It's not more negative than a thumbs up It's the same Please don't get triggered but enjoy the thumbs down as much as thumbs up because it's the same Comment from : C S |
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Same effort Slower speed Less fun Fuck going up hill Comment from : Thomas Phillips |
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This is true but, practically the time increased to use a low enough gear may be too much Also, your power may not be enough to balance bike at the lowest gear Comment from : Jason De La Rosa |
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Mmh I build my drivetrain itself and combi e many things that are not comon on a mtb 9Speed 11-46 casette with 11 Speed MTB rear derailleur with a 3 speed crank with 24-32-48 and controller over Sti Really crazy kombination Comment from : Gothicgirl |
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Actually this defy’s the physics law that in a closed environment Energy cannot be lost nor created Only transferred You gain gravitational potential energy at the loss of some kinetic energy as well as chemical potential energy in you muscles Going uphill is losing energy from your bike (why you slow down) as well as your own energy (which is why you fatigue) Comment from : Jackly Stackly |
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Casually white water rafting upstream on a road bike Comment from : Hugo Rivera |
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The scientific community has been an utter joke for the last several decenia Ofcourse it is bollocks cycling uphill is harder than flat whats the next thing these so called scientists claim? that cycling downhill is more difficult than going uphill? or that men can menstruate and get pregnant? Comment from : Herr Flick of ze Gestapo |
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How about single speed bikes? Comment from : mechannel |
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With 1500 watts, I love hills now ❤️ Comment from : Mr Monitor |
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you're right, i specialy felt that on my motorcycle when go over rocky hill raods, the engine stalls easily over a stone, i was thinking about replacing my rear sprocketbrsame can be said about my bicycle, tho i had no trouble riding 20 grad Comment from : zazugee |
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Not just bike Comment from : boring man |
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I remember when I was a boy I attended some yoga classes with my mother and the teacher used to preach about separating the physical pain of effort from the conscious mind and maybe because I was young I picked it up and put it to good use at the time Now I am 57 and have done some unhealthy things in my life and not kept fit so I try to use this technique which definitely gets harder as I’ve gotten older but the real success of using it comes down to over all fitness if this makes any sense Comment from : Dick Dastardly 55 |
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lupas ko otvoren prozor Comment from : марко макса |
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Well, technically, you're still doing more work, the effort might be lower but it's sustained over a longer period of time Saying a hill isn't harder that flat because you can just go slower is the same as saying "if you can do a flat two hour ride, you can do a flat 20 hour ride because the intensity is the same" Comment from : Olieko |
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Those scientists have never riden a bicycle for sure Comment from : Christian Antonio Diols |
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Science says you're wrong Comment from : Ditmar Van Belle |
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Try cycling in San Francisco you can define which is “harder” Comment from : paranoiid |
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Absolute nonsense Worst post in the history of the interwebs You are presuming we can keep re-gearing bikes to provide the mechanical advantage We can't If you weigh let's say 95 kgs (OK that's me) even a 42 cog gear on the back will not make it easy to climb a 10 gradient You will still struggle Comment from : Sean Carless |
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0:53 someone just discovered the existence of bike gears! 🤦♀ Comment from : Nic D |
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The fact is you are much slower going up and down hills than if you were just on flat land Even if you take into account that you get to go down the hills as well So even if what you say is true, hills are still harder because of the increased time of sustained power you need to travel the same distance as flat land Also, a gentle grade up a mountain that is a gain of 6000ft is MUCH MUCH easier, than a repeated up and down of 200ft hills that have a steep grade I too enjoy "hills", if what you mean by hills is a single gentle grade with lots of elevation gain I think what you meant to say is you enjoy climbing over a mountain passes Comment from : Night Shade |
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Took my bike down to 16 gear inches and it's a mountain goat Comment from : Julia Poelstra |
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I think this is a misleading claim While it is true that 200 watts (joules per second) on flat ground is the same amount effort as 200 watts on any gradient To go an equivalent distance on flat ground and gradient, the gradient would require more energy because it requires a lower gear which decreases the speed of the cyclist which increase the amount of time cycling Holding 200 watts for a longer period of time takes more effort than 200 watts for a shorts period of time Putting the same amount of power for less speed makes it inherently more difficult to complete a ride Comment from : Rob Biasi |
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What annoys me more is cycling into the wind 🤮 Comment from : Debbie Gilmour |
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I normally climb in the highest sustainable gear as a challenge Good for muscle development and conditioning Comment from : Ratzfourtyfour |
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ARE YOU SURE? 👁️👃👁️brWhen I tried my bike's chains exploded Comment from : Manuel Camelo da Silva Poloni |
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With hills, gravity can either be your biggest enemy or your best friend Just depends which side of the hill you're on Comment from : DarthJohnyExe |
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Whenever you drop down a gear you are purchasing that greater ease with a "longer distance of travel" since the same pedal rotation does NOT move your large bike wheels the same [longer] distance so like perpetual motion the concept of hills being as easy as a flat is mythical that being said since you are for all intents & purposes "traveling a LONGER DISTANCE" aka more pedal strokes to cover SAME distance your advice is SOUND slow down since you have further to go & it will take longer maintaining a CONSTANT RHYTHM is always good on a bike so find that sweet spot & happy trails! Comment from : MrAdamNTProtester |
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can we climb with single speed? In the video the cycle used demonstrating climbings, was that single speed? Comment from : Robin W |
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For me it is the speed difference that makes it feel more difficult 75rpm on the flat is not the same speed as 75rpm on grade The slowdown makes it feel unproductive You can walk faster than you can peddle up the hill and use less energy to do it which at least my own human brain has a tough time accepting Comment from : John |
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I commented right at the beginning because you said not to Comment from : George |
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I can’t believe how mach I liked your video it was exactly the data I needed to find out whether I could climb my beloved mountains with a 32t to 51t ratio and my estimated W power from my last rides I searched a lot to find this video!! Thanks Comment from : Behtom |
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I still wish I had some bigger gears in back (more teeth my largest on the SHimano 'megarange' is 34 teeth but those sets with a 52 teeth gear look awesome for hills) One can also zig zag across back and forth (if there's no traffic) which makes each back and forth a lesser incline but more distance and time Comment from : David King |
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I make my own cassettes for this reason I usually have a big "granny" gear in the back I call a "walking gear" so I don't have to get off my bike and push it Comment from : Nunya Biznazz |
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Even though I know this hills are always harder for me because I pedal harder instinctively I grew up in a very hilly town, and had a single speed bike, so I trained myself to pedal harder on hills Now I have to consciously reduce my effort on hills to counter this effect I say to myself "Relax, you'll get there" Comment from : Nunya Biznazz |
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