Joined: Jan 2009
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
You must need pretty good balancing skills to ride such a low gear. My wife isn't very strong so she needs low gears to climb hills, but she can't use her lowest gear because she loses her balance at such slow speeds. So she ends up walking up the hills.