Wind or hills?

[Rob3rt]

Certainly not true in my case. Altho' I like to cycle in the hills I can never compete with the whippets on the climbs. What I need to leave them behind is a nice headwind on the flat.

Your anecdote does not qualify your statement.

 

[asterix]

Your anecdote does not qualify your statement.

The question is which is harder to fight against.


The part of your statement with which I disagreed was the 'makes no difference'. If I have to choose between an adverse wind (as we all know, if the wind is not apparently adverse then there is no wind at all) or a hill-climb then there is a difference because long experience has taught me that ceteris paribus, I can leave the whippets behind when the resistance is simply a headwind, irrespective of their tri-bars and stuff and the fact that they left me trailing up the hills. It's good for morale So yes, I choose a headwind over hills if it is simply a matter of performance.

The other problem with hills out here is that very often the sun is shining on the slope up which I struggle and the heat can be oppressive. A headwind is usually a cooling influence .

 

[Mallory]

Hills!!!

Hills end

Head Winds never bloody end

 

[Easytigers]

Another vote for hills..I'm trying to tell myself that I'm actually beginning to enjoy them!