Originally Posted by William Karsten

Perhaps I'm getting old an onerous, like 165.

But really, why do gear inches matter to people? I can't for the life of me understand why it @#$@# matters. It seems people obsess over it. I started 42x16. It got easy. I bumped up once to 44x16. Things weren't hard. I built some stamina, some speed, got comfy and went 48x15. Which seems plenty. How would gear inches play into this? It seems to me that it really superflous information.

Or, I'm the last man out of the cave.