I Need A Lower Gear!

[GrumpyGregry]

Well. Since you ask, I bought the bike in August '11, I am just getting back into cycling after a break of about 60 years (that's right 60).

It very probably is a lack of fitness and strength, but at the age of 77, which way is my fitness and strength going to go?

I am enjoying my cycling and I would like to be able to get up more hills before I have to get off and walk.

chapeau sir

feel free to fit as large a cassette and rear mech as you like, and I bet in six months time you won't be using the granny ring at all.

 

[smutchin]

The truth is that most people's bikes are overgeared. How many people really need a 53/12 or a 50/11 top gear unless they are racing at a pretty high level? People run out of gears at the low end more often than they do at the top, so I say - gear down folks, and learn to spin!

Excellent point well made.

d.

 

[screenman]

Just shows how easy it is to give the wrong answer through not knowing the full facts.

 

[DuncanBeaumont]

Just shows how easy it is to give the wrong answer through not knowing the full facts.

I am grateful to everyone that has replied.

However......

I was simply asking for advice on lowering my gear ratios. ;-)

 

[lulubel]

However......

I was simply asking for advice on lowering my gear ratios. ;-)

Ah, but now you've learnt to never ask how to do something on a forum if you don't want to be told:

Why you shouldn't do it.
Why you should do it.
How you could do it differently.

 

[DuncanBeaumont]

Ah, but now you've learnt to never ask how to do something on a forum if you don't want to be told:

Why you shouldn't do it.
Why you should do it.
How you could do it differently.

So true.

But, I am enjoying reading the replies - all of them!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Ah, but now you've learnt to never ask how to do something on a forum if you don't want to be told:

Why you shouldn't do it.
Why you should do it.
How you could do it differently.

The whole point of the interweb surely?

 

[screenman]

Thinking about my original reply, that is what I used to make climbing easier.