Originally Posted by
cyclintom
In one of the local centuries a couple of years ago they had this 20% climb that was a half mile long. Sitting I could turn circles and ended up passing a lot of the fast guys up that.
I wonder what gear did you use for riding
sitting up the 20% half mile long climb? And how fast were you spinning? So far I've never encountered such steep climbs (except for, may be, some very short ones, like 100 feet long or so) but I find it quite difficult to maintain high cadence sitting even on much more reasonable climbs, e.g. 7-8%, with 34x32 low gear. And many have 34x28 or even higher.