September 20th 06, 08:17 AM
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road bike / race bike / hybrid / touring / fitness bike - which one
in message , Rob Morley
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In article
Simon Brooke wrote:
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Oh, come on... I can do a thousand feet of climbing just nipping into
the shops (not the most direct way, I admit, but one I often take). I
rarely if ever use my 39/26 lowest gear doing that. The lowest gear on
my winter bike is 42/26, and until a fortnight ago was 42/23. I can
/once/ remember having to get off and walk up a hill with that, and that
was a fairly steep hill and against a strong wind.
I'm no athlete. I'm overweight, 50+, with blood full of warfarin because
of deep vein thrombosis, and a hernia.
So you push big gears and you've got a hernia ... :-)
I never push big gears. I'm not that sort of cyclist. I'm not into macho
nonsense.
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(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; lovely alternative to rice.
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