We ride with tall gears because we want to go fast, and then we pay the price in terms of difficult acceleration, deceleration and climbing ability.

When we gear down in order to accelerate, decelerate and climb better, we find ourselves limited in speed by our ability/inability to spin at a high rate, and so we go back up in gear ratio.

I say, take the time to learn to spin at a higher rate, ride a lower gear, and have the best of all worlds.

If I wrote an e-book on spin that would make it easy and comfortable for you to spin at one and a half times your presently fastest rate of spin, would you pay $3.95 for it?