Website: crazyguy or BQ?

BQ: Think Architectural Digest, but for bikes. My library is semi local to BQ so I don't know if they pay or he donated a subscription. Plus it gives the owner/editor/writer excuses for all-expenses-paid trips to exotic biking locales, and it seems, frequent trips to Japan, which I never realized had such a strong bike culture until I started reading BQ. France for randonneuring, etc.

15": Well it was that or him not being able to climb the hills with touring load. Reading around the forum here, that number is not unusual as a basement low for loaded touring in mountains. Me currently, 21", unloaded and moderate hills, the long ones I often need to walk up, same speed but using different muscles so it's a nice break, especially for a calf cramp. 21" and I sit and spin up. If I'm climbing standing, it's 2 cogs up from granny-low.