Originally Posted by
joejack951
My point is that if someone can climb that slowly offroad, there's no reason one can't do the same on a road. 22/24/26/28-32 low gear is still better than walking.
That's great. I'll continue to enjoy it when I get the opportunity.
There's walking and then there's walking.
On a road bike anyway.. a 34/32 combo at a 60rpm cadence would be the same as walking a 12minute/mile pace. The 22/32 would be equivalent at same RPM as a 19-minute/mile pace. I think the gist of the argument is that on a paved road, it's not too difficult to walk an eg. 12-minute mile, while walking up singletrack at a 19-minute/mile pace might be about the same difficulty level.