drop bars, help.

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any tips on where to place my hands when climbing?

Grab the brake hoods. If you're tough, grab the drops. Definately do
not grab the tops of the bars.

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any tips on where to place my hands when climbing?

Grab the brake hoods. If you're tough, grab the drops. Definately do
not grab the tops of the bars.

Yes, that must be why I didn't see any TdF riders holding the tops while
climbing.....

Gooserider said:

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[email hidden] wrote in news:1154837131.115943.222110
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Quoted message said:

any tips on where to place my hands when climbing?

Grab the brake hoods. If you're tough, grab the drops. Definately do
not grab the tops of the bars.

Yes, that must be why I didn't see any TdF riders holding the tops while
climbing.....

Out of the saddle, the hoods are much better. In the saddle there is no
real reason to use one or the other. It's best to move your hand position
around.

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Yes, that must be why I didn't see any TdF riders holding the tops
while climbing.....

Only while sitting. The OP's question was where to hold the handlebar
while standing.

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sally said:

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Yes, that must be why I didn't see any TdF riders holding the tops
while climbing.....

Only while sitting. The OP's question was where to hold the handlebar
while standing.

Quite.

When standing while going up an incline, the more
width grasped on the handlebar, the better control
one has. Grasping the drops, though, might make
unweighting[*] the rear wheel more difficult. So
I guess the hoods are really the optimum anchor point.

cheers,
Tom

[*] it seems to me that when going up slopes, a lot of
riders concentrate on weighting the front wheel in
order to distribute fore/aft balance, at the expense
of [thinking in terms of] unweighting the rear wheel.
If they'd only think about lightening their rear wheels,
they may be able to fly up the slopes like a kite,
as li'l ol' lightweight I do :-) :-) :-)

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Tom Keats said:

[*] it seems to me that when going up slopes, a lot of
riders concentrate on weighting the front wheel in
order to distribute fore/aft balance, at the expense
of [thinking in terms of] unweighting the rear wheel.
If they'd only think about lightening their rear wheels,
they may be able to fly up the slopes like a kite,
as li'l ol' lightweight I do :-) :-) :-)

Did you ever stop to think that it is your light weight itself that makes
it easier for you to climb? How the [censored] do you unweight the rear wheel
when you are out of the saddle, thrashing, trying to get up the freaking
hill? And why would it be to your advantage to transfer weight to the
front wheel?

Or is this a Peter Pan thing, being able to fly because you believe you
can?

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David L. Johnson said:

How the [censored] do you unweight the rear wheel
when you are out of the saddle, thrashing, trying to get up the freaking
hill?

By the power of positive thinking.

It's still the same weight distributed over the bicycle over-all, as
on the flat or on a downslope, although the proportion of weight on
the front & rear wheels changes with incline. That brings up the matter
of fore/aft balance, which I think is a greatly overlooked component of
riding a bicycle.

Thinking in terms of losing weight on the rear wheel instead of putting
more weight onto the front wheel "feels" lighter, and makes climbs feel
like less of an onerous slog. It's just a psychological trick to play
on one's self.

cheers,
Tom

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On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:31:34 -0700, [email hidden] (Tom Keats)

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

David L. Johnson said:

How the [censored] do you unweight the rear wheel
when you are out of the saddle, thrashing, trying to get up the freaking
hill?

By the power of positive thinking.

It's still the same weight distributed over the bicycle over-all, as
on the flat or on a downslope, although the proportion of weight on
the front & rear wheels changes with incline. That brings up the matter
of fore/aft balance, which I think is a greatly overlooked component of
riding a bicycle.

Thinking in terms of losing weight on the rear wheel instead of putting
more weight onto the front wheel "feels" lighter, and makes climbs feel
like less of an onerous slog. It's just a psychological trick to play
on one's self.

cheers,
Tom

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On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 22:30:44 -0700, [email hidden] (Tom Keats)

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Do run along, puppy, and quit humping my leg.

Go pull wings off of flies or something.

Ghandi would have never been so cruel.