Originally Posted by
bogydave
I go to bike shops looking for gearing help & they say, keep riding you'll build up your strength.
These guys don't have a clue, I ain't 25 & in my prime,
We might "Maintain " our strength if we keep riding & exercising , but we are beyond the muscle building stage.
Slightly OT, and of course if you want really low gears, get them, but this isn't actually true. Every relevant study I have ever seen shows that people in their sixties see increases in muscle mass and proportionally much greater increases in strength when put through a systematic, and sometimes not especially strenuous, program of resistance exercise. And obviously, the more sedentary people have been, the bigger the gains they are likely to see.