Are you a honker?

[gavroche]

Not exactly, is it just getting out of the saddle, or getting out to the point where you have to stop as you cannot go any further, not one I have ever come across, is it colloquial to your area?

Never heard that expression either but, judging from most replies, I take it it means standing on the pedals.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Never heard that expression either but, judging from most replies, I take it it means standing on the pedals.

Yeah but is it just standing or standing to the point where you can't breathe

 

[slowmotion]

I sit and spin with ridiculously low gears. I never want to suffer the consequences of a slipping chain again.

 

[DCBassman]

Scott roadie lowest is 30-36, Trek rigid MTB is 28-36. I'm not yet nearly fit enough, so even these are only just low enough. It will get better...It will.

 

[Jenkins]

You're missing the option of finding a different, less hilly route for those of us from the flatter areas of the country.

 

[Andrew1971]

My lowest gear is 28 rear 39 front mid 90s road bike .I am looking for hills to get better. so far so good. And getting back into it again two years
off.
Andrew