Don't charge hills in winter. If you try to climb without slowing
down, you'll get all sweaty and then freeze when you are coasting down
the other side.
When climbing a hill, you are out of the wind and generating heat --
make it last! Shift down, and pedal just hard enough to keep warm.
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