Originally Posted by
Doomrider74
if you don't have a smart trainer, I'd say the best way to simulate hills is to get a dumb, wheel on trainer, with friction resistance, so the rear wheel doesn't coast. Put it on a hard setting and have a video of someone climbing Mt Ventoux on the TV in front of you.
That is the plan (but maybe not with that particular video). I will just be using a (dumb but with power measuring) spinner bike. You can actually get out of the saddle on my Lemond Revmaster, but in that case it really does not feel different somehow. I am mostly a seated climber unless the gradient and my gears just preclude that.
dave