ChrisEyles
Guru
- Location
- Devon
Depends which bike I'm riding!
My ten speed won't let me spin up steep hills, so I have to alternate honking with seated grinding. Usually make it up quicker and easier than I expect, but there's definitely a limit to how many hills like that I can manage on one ride.
All my other bikes have sensible low gearing (even changed the crank on my tourer to a MTB one for super low gears), so I sit and spin. I'm a bit guilty of being lazy and dropping to a lower gear than I strictly need and twiddling my way to the top very slowly... but this can be useful on longer hilly rides and for this reason I'd pick the tourer over the racer for a long ride on Exmoor.
Off-road I prefer a slightly higher gear for seated climbing so I'm not having to watch my pedals on rocks and other obstacles so much. Can't stand climbing out of the saddle off-road though.
My ten speed won't let me spin up steep hills, so I have to alternate honking with seated grinding. Usually make it up quicker and easier than I expect, but there's definitely a limit to how many hills like that I can manage on one ride.
All my other bikes have sensible low gearing (even changed the crank on my tourer to a MTB one for super low gears), so I sit and spin. I'm a bit guilty of being lazy and dropping to a lower gear than I strictly need and twiddling my way to the top very slowly... but this can be useful on longer hilly rides and for this reason I'd pick the tourer over the racer for a long ride on Exmoor.
Off-road I prefer a slightly higher gear for seated climbing so I'm not having to watch my pedals on rocks and other obstacles so much. Can't stand climbing out of the saddle off-road though.