Back when I was in WI I swung by the Trek West store with my touring bike and T-da made fun of my "flat", bordering on "corn cob", cassette. Now, it was the ubiquitous 12 x 25, and I had figured with the triple chainrings up front that it would be OK. Nonetheless, I slunk outta there with my tail mildly between my legs, dug around in my basement, and came up with a 12 x 27, and slapped 'er on there.
And every time in the first week I was grinding my skinny ass and my heavy load up yet another unimaginably big hill along the COAST (beside a body of water, the local low point, usually sorta, you know, flat?) I kept thinkin'..."When I get back to WI I owe T-da a big fat kiss."
I did the horribly hilly hundred on a 11-25 cassette and standard crank set once!
ReplyDeleteGrant Grant Grant. If I am remebering correctly, years ago I did the HHH (the first year?) With a 12 x 25 - and suffered like a dog. YOU did it with a 23! But then again, you were just a triathlete back then...
Delete(And it was hot, and we cut it short; and only did 95 miles or somerthin' like that. With Steve Judy?)
I loved having a 32 on our tandem . . . mega-granny . . . or "how slow can you go!"
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