Originally Posted by
Drew Eckhardt
If you don't want the extra cog (39x25 or 34x23 is enough to get a fit rider over everything in the Colorado Rockies spinning up most of it,
Sure, a 39 or even a 42x25 or 26 will, and has, get me up the climbs I've done in the Rockies but not those in West Virginia, western Maryland or even a couple of miles from my house. How about 20%+ hills? Lots of them. Then there's the age problem. I'm 70.
That's why I'm insistentant on a triple and want a front shifter that handles one well. My current '06 Ergo brifters do and I'd like to have something current that's accommodatinging as they are.