Originally Posted by Wildwood
How long have they been riding? It takes a lot of miles (or years) to develop the leg power and technique to climb well. Leg power is the needed ingredient, not to mention aerobic capacity and the desire to suffer.
How long have they been riding?
Most of them a long time. The women I am referring to ride for different bike shop teams, so I'm not talking casual riders here.
I was hauling my 200 lb carcass past them in a pretty big gear on the hills and they were spinning their shapely asses off at 100+ rpm - it almost seems like they under-gear to a fault - and they don't seem to really get anywhere...
I keep expecting them to drop me like a bad habit and flutter up those suckers since they are carrying 70-80 lbs less weight, and it hasn't happened - yet!
