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Home > Video > Video: not pedaling is the key to generating enough unweighting to get up this boulder
Published September 7, 2016 by Griff Wigley

Video: not pedaling is the key to generating enough unweighting to get up this boulder

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A 30-second vid of me on my @advocatecycle fat bike (Watchman) last week combining some elements I've learned recently to get up the vertical face of this boulder: track stand, 3/4 pedal stroke, lots of rear wheel unweighting while not pedaling. The trickiest part is to pause pedaling once the front wheel is up on the rock. My reptilian brain: "KEEP PEDALING! YOU'RE GOING TOO SLOW, UPHILL! YOU'LL STALL AND FALL OFF THE ROCK! YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MOMENTUM! PEDAL PEDAL PEDAL!" The pause in pedaling is so that the pedals can briefly be level, providing a stable platform for the vertical unweighting (leap! explode!) that helps to carry the bike up and over the rock. It's not intuitive but most of us have a neo-cortex, so it can be learned. 😉

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