Originally Posted by
Jicafold
Was everybody racing everywhere on relatively flat land? Assuming the earth's topography hasn't changed since then...I don't get it. I really should put a 13 - 24 back there.
Over the decades, fashions change in whether you should grind or spin. In the 1970s and 1980s, and even later grinding big gears was en vogue [Read Tim Krabbé's
The Rider, watch cycling classics from that age]. Only when Lance Armstrong started to spin again, the fashion changed.
Be glad you still got a 21.