chances of paddling smoothly and thus maintaining better and more uniform speed. It is easy for people who speed up and down with jerks but it is more difficult to maintain a smooth transition of speed unless one knows how to ride a bike properly. The idea is to pedal till the bike is moving forward and this helps in developing a smooth pedal stroke which cannot be achieved by other gears.
This is important in developing a smooth speed both up and down the hill and is a valuable trick to learning biking and speeding the proper way. Another method by which one can add strength is peddling by one leg. This can be pursued after practicing on the warmer a couple of minutes before hand and then just pedal one foot while the other foot is detached from the bike, this helps inculcate single foot pedaling and is helpful later on. Initially it is better to practice with about 85 to 100 revolutions per minute and then increase systematically then onwards towards quicker turns.
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