Originally Posted by
vane171
What I meant, that folks who furiously spin up hills while barely moving
That is simply not happening on anything you could seriously call a hill on a road bike with a 34/34 gear. The reality is that you are always power limited with any road bike gearing and would never be able to "spin furiously" on a steep gradient.
I have a fairly respectable 4W/kg FTP and 12 kph at 75 rpm is a typical climbing speed and cadence on a 7-8% gradient. That's not exactly spinning furiously.