Gear Ratio

[njsmith]

Thanks, to everyone for the posts. Sounds like am just over-worrying and am sure once I get a bit more used to the bike and do some more long runs on lots of hills I should be okay - will just need to keep pushing up the hills till the top.

Oh, aero bars are another issue altogether - borrowed from a friend but if am honest I don't really like them and plan on not using on my new bike.

 

[jimboalee]

Depending on how long the hill is, it doesn't seem that unreasonable. Hell even I have done 14%ers at 6mph before.

That is a quite understandable statement.

There are canal bridges in Dudley that are 20% and I ride up them at 12 mph on the big ring....