Hill bike

MSeries said:

I have noticed a few posts in here lately containing references to Hill Bikes. What are these ?
Special ultra light machines for riding on hilly routes ? bikes designed in the spirit of
Hank/Benny/Harry Hill ? But seriously I'd like to know what they are

No, me being cussed. The highest point I've ridden a bike to is only about a thousand metres, and as
far as I'm concerned that's a hill, not a mountain. I think the practice of calling bikes we ride
through woodlands and across rocky hillsides 'mountain' bikes is silly and verging on the boastful
and peurile. No-one (or very few people) cycle on mountains in Britain for the good and simple
reason that there are no (or very few, depending on your definition) mountains to cycle on.

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MSeries said:

I have noticed a few posts in here lately containing references to Hill Bikes. What are these ?
Special ultra light machines for riding on hilly routes ? bikes designed in the spirit of
Hank/Benny/Harry Hill ? But seriously I'd like to know what they are

I've not heard of "hill bikes". There are "downhill" bikes - those heavy duty MTBs designed for
going down impossible tracks at 100mph, and pro racers and rich enthusisasts sometimes have
"climbing bikes" - versions of road bikes which are super light* with lower gears, etc, but "hill
bikes" are new to me too.

* top tips: www.topica.com/lists/gramhead (warning: some of these people go to absurd extremes and
expense... quite funny at times).

~PB