"I have to be in my 53x11 to get any kind of workout from it"
Is this literally true? It doesn't take me long spinning in a far smaller gear to break out in a sweat - 15 minutes on my fixie was more than enough to do the trick last time I was on my rollers. If I'm in a gear I like and I want a workout, I just spin up.
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