Originally Posted by
unterhausen
Try staying up with your local club "A" ride for a couple of miles and tell me which is easier then. The minimum effort required to cycle is considerably less than the minimum effort required to run, no doubt, but neither a century nor a marathon is a minimum effort.
Amen. "Easy" isn't the word that comes to my mind when looking at riders at the finish of a cobbled classic, for instance. Again, cycling
can be easy, but that isn't the same as saying that cycling
is easy.