Recommendation on bikes.

[lejogger]

i get a little annoyed when racing snakes keep telling people that they don't need triples as a compact will do....but some compacts have such huge jumps in gear ratios and you can't always find that nice cruising gear....

also they don't live in bl**dy wales, where we have loads and loads and loads of damn hills were ever we ride

the triple gives me nice cruising gears in the middle 39 ring and some lovely, lovely spinny gears in the lower 30 ring for going up long hill climbs

That's why I posted the Cycling Weekly link above. The bike profiled (well the rider on that bike anyway) holds a number of national records and happily rides a triple.

 

[jowwy]

That's why I posted the Cycling Weekly link above. The bike profiled (well the rider on that bike anyway) holds a number of national records and happily rides a triple.

yeh i read that post - was just having a rant