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So we're now having to fit MTB rear mechs and cassettes, with attendant cost and jumps between ratios (I certainly wouldn't want to use my 11-32 MTB cassette for road work). Sounds like a totally uncecessary compromise to me...
So we're now having to fit MTB rear mechs and cassettes, with attendant cost and jumps between ratios (I certainly wouldn't want to use my 11-32 MTB cassette for road work). Sounds like a totally uncecessary compromise to me...
Another female here. I'm not going to get into the debate, but I would like to just point out that it isn't absolute strength that you need, it is power to weight ratio - these poor men have lug their greater weight up the hills, while you and I are lightweights and don't have so much to shift! (This is why my boyfriend, who is 5' 5" and about 9 stone, is very good up hills, he has the strength but not much weight to shift) The tables are turned on the downhills, when gravity is a help rather than a hinderance...
For the record, I have a standard chainring on my road bike, with a 9 speed cassette. I have no idea what gear ratios I have, though.
When I achieve a level of fitness where the power is 'on tap' I really have to hold back in that my knee soon becomes a goner.I suspect that if I do achieve the fitness, stamina and weight levels I'd like then the inner ring on my roadbike won't get much use, if at all. Still rather have it there than not though.
I managed it about 8 years ago. I spent a whole year not using the inner rings on my road bike or MTB. I was climbing hills in 39/26 then that I use 30/28 on now.I suspect that if I do achieve the fitness, stamina and weight levels I'd like then the inner ring on my roadbike won't get much use, if at all. Still rather have it there than not though.
When I achieve a level of fitness where the power is 'on tap' I really have to hold back in that my knee soon becomes a goner.
It's also ok having smooth gear changes, but hills themselves certainly are seldom smooth. I'm also sure that it is the lack of a 'granny gear' that both retires many new cyclists and makes roadies a growing minority in some areas of the country.
I ride with people who use all kinds of wide cassette ratios. It looks like terribly hard work.
it is, but if I was on my hybrid, which has 48/38/28 12/13/14//15/16/17/18/19/21 it would be easy work. And I would have gained from a smooth (if slow) ride all the way down from London.Well, climbing the Beacon with 39x21 looks like terribly hard work to me.....
Go from 1% of a population to 2%?How do you get a growing minority?
Obviously it's when you get(to understand) prose.How do you get a growing minority?
Go from 1% of a population to 2%?
Obviously it's when you get(to understand) prose.
I must remember to dot the i's and cross my T's though maybe roadies are growing more defensive these days.