Quote Originally Posted by daz h View Post
When you climb do you change gears on the climb to make it easier or do you stay in the same gear from the bottom of the hill.
Not sure I understand you Daz.

I obviously change gears, gradually reducing to the lowest gear I have to to get up the hill without blowing my legs. If it's very steep that means getting in a low gear quite quickly (quite often that's the lowest gear I've got) and I'll stay in that gear until it eases up. If it's long and steady climb I change gears more often (up and down gears according to variations in gradient).

I don't grind big gears (bad for my knees and bad for blowing my legs). That's why I got the MTB gearing put on to give me lower gears (I stupidly bought a bike with a compact chainring, which didn't give me low enough gears for the Dales).

I try and keep my cadfence as high as possible or else I blow my legs for the rest of the ride.

As a long term MTB'er I like to think I'm quite good at using my gears as much as possible.