Originally Posted by
hamster
Personally I'm incredulous that the person reporting this actually had a VAT of 114 BPM. (Unless he's over 70 years old?)
To the OP: your power to weight and your gears are barely enough to spin up this hill at ~70 rpm. It is quite normal to experience signs of failure as described in this situation. Your best options are to get a 12-32 cassette and to lose weight.
For a 12-32 cassette, would I need to alter the chain, RD, and a million other things?
I have a '13 spec. secteur compact.
This thread really blew up over the last few days.
I made a second attempt at this climb, similar results. I think I took the early segments slower (up until spies road when I needed to stop)
I did some standing during some ''steeper sections'' before spies road, there were maybe 3 or 4 areas. They werent that steep, but I felt like ''recruiting different muscle groups'' as they say.
http://www.strava.com/activities/75198997