Originally Posted by
paisan
But yours was the only post to make this point. All of the other pro triple arguments are simply "swap to triple cranks and win" posts.
Yeah no. My very first post I tossed out that I preferred mountain bike triple gearing as an alternative, since, you know, we're climbing mountains and hills.
I've always been a strong advocate of mountain bike gearing on road bikes. Tourists use it
all the time, and if there's two groups of cyclists that share similar characteristics, it's clydes and tourists. The primary difference is that they carry camping gear, whereas we carry adipose, in similar masses.
Hell, I weigh more than most fully loaded tourist rigs, and so do a lot of people here. There's no shame in MTB gearing.