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11-07-09, 04:06 PM
These routes might be familiar to the local riders.
Carbon canyon road from brea to chino hills.
That first significant climb before the steep but short decline...I would use my 50 tooth chainring and the biggest cog in the rear cassette on good days and manage to mash it over the top. However on some days I use the small chainring and use the 3rd cog from hub to climb easier although it still burns. What would the climbers use? I dont know if I am just a sissy when it comes to climbing (then again with anything that starts to burn) but recently I came to realize that I could be a wuss on how I tackle these climbs.
Carbon canyon road from chino hills to brea
That switchback hurts although its less than a mile long according to mapmyride.com So I am on the 1st cog from hub in the back and the small chainring on my compact crankset on that final turn where its briefly over 15% grade. I keep this ratio for atleast the last half of this switchback and then move to 3rd from hub on the cassette before the descent and then switch to bigger chainring.
Grand Avenue from Chino hills parkway towards Diamond bar blvd.
Those hills kill me for some reason? Im on my 1st cog from hub and smallest chainring going up those hills. Maybe I am being a wuss but it burns like hell.
The point of this thread is to find out if I am just not using the right ratios for these climbs. When I was living somewhere else, there was this hill that climbs roughly 2 or 3 miles at an average of 6 to 7 percent grade and my first time through, I already burned out in the first mile using a higher ratio and I had to stop briefly in the last few hundred yards before going over the summit. Since then I leared to start with smaller ratios. Am I doing this wrong or doing this right?
Carbon canyon road from brea to chino hills.
That first significant climb before the steep but short decline...I would use my 50 tooth chainring and the biggest cog in the rear cassette on good days and manage to mash it over the top. However on some days I use the small chainring and use the 3rd cog from hub to climb easier although it still burns. What would the climbers use? I dont know if I am just a sissy when it comes to climbing (then again with anything that starts to burn) but recently I came to realize that I could be a wuss on how I tackle these climbs.
Carbon canyon road from chino hills to brea
That switchback hurts although its less than a mile long according to mapmyride.com So I am on the 1st cog from hub in the back and the small chainring on my compact crankset on that final turn where its briefly over 15% grade. I keep this ratio for atleast the last half of this switchback and then move to 3rd from hub on the cassette before the descent and then switch to bigger chainring.
Grand Avenue from Chino hills parkway towards Diamond bar blvd.
Those hills kill me for some reason? Im on my 1st cog from hub and smallest chainring going up those hills. Maybe I am being a wuss but it burns like hell.
The point of this thread is to find out if I am just not using the right ratios for these climbs. When I was living somewhere else, there was this hill that climbs roughly 2 or 3 miles at an average of 6 to 7 percent grade and my first time through, I already burned out in the first mile using a higher ratio and I had to stop briefly in the last few hundred yards before going over the summit. Since then I leared to start with smaller ratios. Am I doing this wrong or doing this right?