• Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    1 month ago

    Care to explain why? I’m not going to watch some time-consuming video on a spy platform to find out.

    • 𝕮𝕬𝕭𝕭𝕬𝕲𝕰@feddit.uk
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      21 days ago

      The TL;DW is that bike gears are often not low enough.

      If you give me a lever long enough, and all that.

      The assumption here, though, is that climbing is all you care about, and not an average speed across a ride.

      I’m by no means fast but I certainly won’t make it to the pub for lunch if my gearing was as low as it would need to be for me to make it up a hill using the same amount of effort if expend to travel moderately on the flat…