Originally Posted by
ultraman6970
It is fair what the oil man is saying, but IMO the reality is that many of the complainers asking for more gearing is people that go and do steep hills w/o having a single mile in the bike or only ride on sundays and between you and me to go up you have to have a lot of miles in the bike or at least be consistent and ride 2 or 3 times per week.
If lower gearing allows someone who's not in that great of shape to get out and ride around their home, don't you that's better than them not riding at all? Why do you care so much what gearing someone else wants to use? And it's pretty pathetic of you to complain that someone might only get out on their bike once a week. Are you married and/or have kids? A demanding job? Any responsibilities other than yourself? I used to get out five times a week. Now I'm lucky if it's twice. My mileage has dropped from 6000+ year to a little over 2000. Funny thing, I was still using a 30x27 low gear even when I was in better shape.
Originally Posted by
ultraman6970
Solution for a store that wont tell an overweight sunday rider he needs to train, is to sell them stuff like larger cogs and stuff when the deep of the problem is other, well business is business.
Are you kidding me? Don't sell someone gearing that they need and instead tell them to lose some weight? You'd be fired your first day from my (hypothetical)bike shop. Do you realize that some people just want to go ride a bike and not "train"? Remember, we're not in the Road Cycling forum. You're dealing with normal individuals now.
Originally Posted by
ultraman6970
Believe me 34x29 is plenty gear, the problem is that some guys go 10 or 30 miles climbing having just 10 miles of ride a month and that's just insane, if you don't ride often you have no power, no cadence, no idea how to use the gears (seen a few here), etc.
No, I don't believe you that 34x29 is plenty. And I'm surprised HillRider didn't comment on that either. I know he's running a 26T front ring on some of his bikes. Unless he's using a 23T big cog, he's got lower gearing than that.
Everyone starts somewhere and some never get much further than just-starting-out shape for any number of reasons. Why do you have such an issue with this? No one is sneaking into your garage and swapping your 11-21 for an 11-36.