Originally Posted by
billmagee
You guys amaze me. On steeper stuff my cadence drops to 60 or below and I have to tack back and forth across the road like a puffing sailboat just to make it to the top. I don't know what my HR is but it is pounding away in there.
My low gear has a gain ratio of 1.3. Any sense going lower?
On steep long grades - when I'm outa gears I get below 60 - you just can't help it. My tamac has a triple - 53/39/30 with a 12/25 casset (lowest ratio = 1.15) - yesterday I was in that gear for the last part of the climb.
However - most of the riders on that ride had standard 53/39 cranksets with what appeared to be 12/26 cassetts - so they went up in quite a bit higher gearing.
Today it's more hills. That's the plan anyway.