Hills Are NOT Harder Than Cycling On The Flat (Says Science)

The TL;DW is that bike gears are often not low enough.

If you give me a lever long enough, and all that.

The assumption here, though, is that climbing is all you care about, and not an average speed across a ride.

I'm by no means fast but I certainly won't make it to the pub for lunch if my gearing was as low as it would need to be for me to make it up a hill using the same amount of effort if expend to travel moderately on the flat...