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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 23:29:15 GMT
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Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:12:31 -0500, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> 
>> On 1/25/2025 11:04 AM, cyclintom wrote:
>>> 
>>> Frank, using average speeds of flat races where the riders are in high
>>> gear all of the time, the roads have been vastely degrading year to
>>> year and the distances have been being reduced is hardly a way to
>>> measure the effect of shifting components.
>> 
>> Are those all flat races? Really? And have the roads really degraded in
>> the past 40 years or so? I'd love to see your evidence on both points.
> 
> Of what use eould evidence be to you? You are even uaware that pros can 
> climb 5% grades in high gear! And many mountain passes have pretty long 
> sections of 5%.
> 
Even so Pros are not riding up in the big ring, in general they spin to
win, they are remarkably fast up even quite steep grades, but they are
using the big cassettes and on mountain stages will be using appropriate
gearing!

Roger Merriman