Originally Posted by Digital Gee
...Yes, it's slow but I love the brakes which are so much more responsive than my road bike, ...
...Anyway, no knee pain whatsoever, and the only differences between today and yesterday were the bike and today I wore basketball shorts, not the gel padded mtb shorts. ...
If you have Shimano break pads I'd recommend that you swap the pads
for Kool Stops, salmon color. It accents the white.....
A generalization is that spinning is easier on the knees than mashing.
Perhaps you should drop down a couple of gears if you are mashing.