Originally Posted by
ColinL
Originally Posted by
Brian Ratliff
Gearing merely changes your leg speed. If your suffering eases on a climb, you are climbing slower. Regardless of how much you are spinning, you still need to output the same amount of power to maintain speed.
if your cadence falls too far you become ineffecient. gearing does more than change leg speed, it allows you to stay in the efficient rpm range. and I don't mean being fixated on 100 rpm +.
+1. You'd be using less leg muscle and more heart muscle to generate said power.