Help...Bike for big hills.

[accountantpete]

If all else fails you need a General Lee 11-40!

 

[jifdave]

If all else fails you need a General Lee 11-40!

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holy crap!

is that for going up everest?

 

[Boon 51]

If all else fails you need a General Lee 11-40!

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Thats a handsome beast...

 

[BDK]

As someone already mentioned,SRAM WiFli.A 50 34 compact crank with an 11 32 cassette.Either trade your road bike for another or get the rear mech and cassette fitted along with the 34 tooth chainring.Oh yes,change that abonimation of an avatar...

 

[MacB]

I know it's not fashionable but there's nothing wrong with a triple with a smaller inner ring on your road bike, say 50/39/26. If you really want to stay with a double then maybe 42/26. If you bunged something like an 11-32 on either of those combos then 26x32 should be good enough, below that balancing may get tricky.

It's all well and good to hear things like man up and there's certainly no shame in walking if you need to. I just prefer to ride and would rather have gears on a bike to enable as much of this as possible when I'm unfit or just tired at the end of a ride/long day.

There's also the danger that you take some of the fun out of it with too much training and not enough just riding.

 

[Licramite]

Thats what I've got 52,48,32 - but thiers some hills round here were in the end you get off and run up the hill its quicker.
I now know why ironage hillfort dwellers didn't invent the bicycle.

 

[Boon 51]

As someone already mentioned,SRAM WiFli.A 50 34 compact crank with an 11 32 cassette.Either trade your road bike for another or get the rear mech and cassette fitted along with the 34 tooth chainring.Oh yes,change that abonimation of an avatar...

I have an 11-36 cassette and rear mech on order as its the cheaper option to start with, then perhaps a 34 tooth chainring to follow.
Then I think I would trade the bike in for another bike if I'm not happy with the results..

As for the avatar ..

 

[Boon 51]

I know it's not fashionable but there's nothing wrong with a triple with a smaller inner ring on your road bike, say 50/39/26. If you really want to stay with a double then maybe 42/26. If you bunged something like an 11-32 on either of those combos then 26x32 should be good enough, below that balancing may get tricky.

It's all well and good to hear things like man up and there's certainly no shame in walking if you need to. I just prefer to ride and would rather have gears on a bike to enable as much of this as possible when I'm unfit or just tired at the end of a ride/long day.

There's also the danger that you take some of the fun out of it with too much training and not enough just riding.

I'm going to change a few things around and see what happens and I wouldn't discount a triple..

You second paragraph is spot on..
Its all very well saying man up but I am 61 not 21 and I didn't buy a bike to push it up hill so any help in the gearing is going to be helpfull.

 

[Peteaud]

I have an 11-36 cassette and rear mech on order as its the cheaper option to start with, then perhaps a 34 tooth chainring to follow.
Then I think I would trade the bike in for another bike if I'm not happy with the results..

And a new chain i hope

 

[Boon 51]

And a new chain i hope

Plus a chain..

 

[Boon 51]

If I went the triple route on my road bike what would I need to do the job properly and what would be the cost as near as..

 

[MacB]

Triple chainset, new front derailleur and new left hand shifter - assuming your shifter is double specific - I reckon about £250

 

[BDK]

Just on the subject of your avatar,what gearing would Mancini need for the mountain he has to climb...

 

[Boon 51]

Just on the subject of your avatar,what gearing would Mancini need for the mountain he has to climb...

None as he won't be there next year..

 

[boybiker]

If all else fails you need a General Lee 11-40!

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That's bigger than my dinner plates at home!!!