Originally Posted by
PhoenixBiker
As much as I don't want to admit it, I'm not as young as I used to be. I'm finding it more and more difficult to push gears that used to give me no trouble at all...
Has anyone else made similar concessions to advancing age?
There are a couple of hills that were making my knees unhappy. I swapped the three-speed hub for a five, keeping the same top gear but lowering low gear from 34g.i. to 25g.i. This turned out to be quite a bit more involved a project than I had scoped but I'm happy with the results.