Dajerseyrat
Well-Known Member
So I'm gonna try and keep this on a serious note. I have legitimate training questions.
I'm a large guy that lost over 75lbs dropping from 300lbs to 225lbs and began mountain biking again. I absolutely love it and forgot how much I missed it.
I can hold my own with most casual riders of my age group and some younger and consider myself in pretty good shape and of mediocre skill level. But when we went riding Chimney rock with sharpshooter and another guy with a rigid single speed(Scott perhaps?) I felt like I never rode before. They made the climbing look so easy where I struggled like an infant. I wanted to quit biking at that very moment..lol
My question is, how much a a difference does the power to weight ratio make? Like can I ever be as fast as a much lighter guy?
I know I must be at a huge disadvantage being 225lbs and riding with guys that are 155lbs to 165lbs as they have to pull much less weight uphill it's simply physics.
Realistically my frame size dictates that I could never be sub 200lbs perhaps I could starve myself down to 205 at best but I would lose a lot of muscle in the process.
So is there anything I could do to get faster going uphill besides losing weight? And I'm curious if a guy 155lbs put on a weighted vest making him 225lbs would he be significantly slower thereby leveling the playing field? Or does it simply come down to conditioning and skill???
I'm a large guy that lost over 75lbs dropping from 300lbs to 225lbs and began mountain biking again. I absolutely love it and forgot how much I missed it.
I can hold my own with most casual riders of my age group and some younger and consider myself in pretty good shape and of mediocre skill level. But when we went riding Chimney rock with sharpshooter and another guy with a rigid single speed(Scott perhaps?) I felt like I never rode before. They made the climbing look so easy where I struggled like an infant. I wanted to quit biking at that very moment..lol
My question is, how much a a difference does the power to weight ratio make? Like can I ever be as fast as a much lighter guy?
I know I must be at a huge disadvantage being 225lbs and riding with guys that are 155lbs to 165lbs as they have to pull much less weight uphill it's simply physics.
Realistically my frame size dictates that I could never be sub 200lbs perhaps I could starve myself down to 205 at best but I would lose a lot of muscle in the process.
So is there anything I could do to get faster going uphill besides losing weight? And I'm curious if a guy 155lbs put on a weighted vest making him 225lbs would he be significantly slower thereby leveling the playing field? Or does it simply come down to conditioning and skill???
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