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BMMF, thanks for this excellent advice - I'm convinced that almost as much of hillclimbing is about strategy and willpower as raw strength/fitness, so it's interesting to hear all this from you. I wouldn't have thought of putting all weight over bb, but it makes sense. I guess I'll just have to keep at it. I think my problem often is that I'm too reluctant to get out of the saddle, and too often I let myself get too far up a hill at too slow a speed to ever conquer it.