• 𝕮𝕬𝕭𝕭𝕬𝕲𝕰@feddit.uk
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    16 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…