Originally Posted by
linberl
I often wonder if people acted the same when bikes went from single speed to geared....since gears artificially multiply your effort, too.
If you read a history of the Tour De France you will see Desgrange was against teams, and gear changes. He wasn’t impressed when they came out with replaceable gears and there was no wheel changes if you were not hauling the spare wheel on your back for the whole race. The older pros thought shifting was unmanly. It took a while for multiple gears to be excepted.