Oh! the shame....

[GrasB]

Geared too high, thats why!

Anyway, im going for penis points here.
I did this hill, in 48/18(fixed)
Which is apparently a 1 in 4, or 1 in 5. I asked the person who decided it would be fun to go up it(keep trying to get me off and walking, not going to happen!) and he said it only had one contour line or something.
Is ****ing steep though, and goes on for a good while

I know that, my grandfather used to live near there (RIP) it's evil imoofm (thinking about 10 years back).

 

[TheDoctor]

22 x 34 on an MTB . blimey........ near vertical...

My lowest is 24 x 26...ditched the 30 sprocket years ago.....

When I did Ventoux, my lowest was 24 x 26. And I needed it.
Spinning is good!

 

[Headgardener]

Geared too high, thats why!

Anyway, im going for penis points here.
I did this hill, in 48/18(fixed)
Which is apparently a 1 in 4, or 1 in 5. I asked the person who decided it would be fun to go up it(keep trying to get me off and walking, not going to happen!) and he said it only had one contour line or something.
Is ****ing steep though, and goes on for a good while

Should be flat as a pancake then.

Have looked at Joe's map and it climbs from 80m to 180m in the space of about 2 kilometres so well done young man.

 

[darkstar]

Yesterday at my local bike store i was asking advise on buying a road bike, the bloke who was answering my questions said if i got a triple chain set i would be laughed at by other roadies and they would look down their noses at me... I was pretty surprised by this coming from a xc mtb background so i replied, "To be honest i don't really care what a bunch of jumped up 40 year olds dressed in lycra think of me" This may have offended him but it's the truth, if anyone will look down at me for having that extra chain set on a LeJog ride then so be it, surely they must have other priorities???

 

[GrasB]

darkstar, I find those who take the pee pee out of a triple end up struggling to honk it up on a 43" gear at a slower speed while I spin on a 35" on the 1:4s.

 

[Joe24]

darkstar, I find those who take the pee pee out of a triple end up struggling to honk it up on a 43" gear at a slower speed while I spin on a 35" on the 1:4s.

See, when i went up the 1 in 4, or whatever it was, in a 72" gear, at first i was moving away from my mate. Then, he started to catch up. The first bit goes up pretty steep, then it levels out slightly, before kicking up abit again.
He caught up, and span past as i was honking up. However, i did catch him back up again!
But, someone i know, who is a very very strong guy, made from Icelandic rock me and someone else thinks, has a triple. His legs are huge and he just powers along, but, he has a triple for 'just in case' as his get him home gear.
I rode to Buxton with him last year, hes crazy.

 

[Over The Hill]

Triple and proud!

I cannot see the point of this anti three ring mindset.

A bike is a machine that is made to as efficiently as possible turn your leg power into foreward motion, given the variables of where you are and your own leg power sometimes that most efficient way is with a different gear range.

This abuse hurled at triple users often comes from grown men who shave their legs for cycling based reasons. Is there not something odd in that?

 

[GrasB]

Joe, I ride on both ends of the spectrum, I have a trip' Marin & a fixie HT on near-as-damn-it slicks which seems to mean I manage to to get all the flack for riding non-in vogue bikes & I see this quite a lot. The peeps I can't keep up with when riding hard mostly run trip's, usually with scary big top chain rings, & the ones I ride away from don't roll on a trip'. I assume people that push that hard have had enough occasions they've gone to hard to far & worked out why a triple is a good thing.

This abuse hurled at triple users often comes from grown men who shave their legs for cycling based reasons. Is there not something odd in that?

And ime not as good as they try to make out they are.