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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: 27 Jan 2025 08:48:52 GMT
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Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 1/26/2025 6:56 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>> 
>> Any race that is more or less in high gear (as most of the spring  classics) ...
> 
> I think that's a strange notion. High gear up mountain passes?
> 
> 
Paris-Roubaix is flat to the best of my knowledge, Flanders etc while not
mountainous has the various bergs.

And others all of which definitely require a range of gears, ie everything
from climbs and steep ones to big open roads.

Roger Merriman