Originally Posted by
8bits
Although I don't live in the US I can give you some input...I live in a really hilly city and I climb like 300m everyday on my commute and I don't have any problem with it. You get used to it, when I started riding FG 48/19 it was hell now I run 50/17 and it's a breeze.
So for sometime, you must have felt like a complete failure, until that blessed day when you finally reached the summit, and much to your amazement, you were still alive!
