Originally Posted by
WhyFi
Yup. With power, that change is more immediately noticed and to keep the same power you'll often find yourself going far faster than you typically might. If I'm in that 90% region, a little bit of a decline will have me flirting with 30 mph pretty quickly.
I learned that very thing as well, recently. Traditional road bike gearing was making a lot more sense to me, as JRA a 46/12 is plenty of gear, but I was using a lot more of the cassette than I thought I would on the shiny bike with a 52 up front.
Also, around here they like to spread a layer of gravel over the paved country roads, I guess so that as it breaks down it naturally fills in the depressions. Going way faster than I usually do on these corners is a bit frightening since the gravel likes to hang out there
