Putting on muscle and being cut don’t usually go hand in hand. All your power to weight sports, like sprinting (running too), wrestling / MMA, etc. you go through a strength phase and then you cut for your season / events. Granted, you don’t crash diet, but it might mean putting on 10lbs in the offseason (combination of muscle and fat since you’ll need to eat at a calorie surplus) only to lose the fat as your volume increases for your race season. It might mean being a few lbs-5lbs+ heavier when you cut depending on how much muscle you put on.
You could also ride uphill at like 50rpm for a hour. It makes for a nice “da’ pump”, to quote a young Arnold.