On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 13:14:59 GMT, "Bob" wrote:

Plus, the real benefit of a triple occurs when you're tired. You might be
able to crank up a hill (I use a 39 front chainring and a pretty large rear
cog) in the beginning of your ride that you won't be able to get up at the
end.

Hi Bob

I haven't visited this NG for quite some time and I've just downloaded
some 10,000 messages. Naturally, reading all of them would take rather
a lot of thime. Nevertheless, this "Triple Crank" thread caught my
eye.

Last Saturday (12 July 2003) I had intended to cycle a short distance
from my home in Worthing on the South coast of England to Brighton -
only some 15 miles in each direction - to visit a local kiting
festival.

I had been reasonably ill for the previous few days but thought I'd
recovered enough to be able to trundle along the mainly flat roads.
Sadly, this was not the case. Having ridden only a handful of miles, I
coughed once or twice and then vomited all over the place. Not very
nice at all. No, sir. T'was rather like a cat doing its furball stuff.

As soon as I'd finished my wretched retching I turned around and
started to head back home.

Even though I'd been eating and drinking as well as I'd been able for
the previous few days I still felt absolutely exhausted. Fortunately I
had my granny ring and a big cog availble. Even though the roads
around here are flat I struggled to manage to maintain a speed above
walking pace. Eventually, I arrived back home and went straight to
bed.

So, Bob, IMO, three rings are definitely the way to go. You never know
when they'll come in handy. In addition to their post-vomiting use,
they're pretty handy for climbing the occasional far-too-lumpy bits
one comes now and again.

BTW, my cheapo road bike is the tripple ring version of the cycle seen
in my sig.

Regards
James

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