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> you simply don't need gears if you're below 50 And here I am with all the gears; on a nice road bike; and I struggle to maintain 30 km/h on flat.
by bombela 2y ago
> you simply don't need gears if you're below 50
And here I am with all the gears; on a nice road bike; and I struggle to maintain 30 km/h on flat.
- criddell 2y agoIs maintaining 30 km/h important? Why not leave a little earlier?
- david-gpu 2y agoYeah, the person you replied to thinks of cycling as a sport, not as a form of transportation. That is the sorry state of affairs in North America and Australia. Edit: I see now that you are in TX, so this isn't news to you.
- bombela 2y agoYou guessed wrong! I biked for sport in France and the bay area. But also for commuting in San Francisco (so dangerous), and Palo Alto for many years. My reaction was to the 50 km/h, as if the person was cycling at that speed. edit: maybe they meant that below 50 years old you don't need gears. By the way, France has switched to a 30 km/h limits in towns. Pretty nice for cyclists feeling of safety.
- kashyapc 2y agoI was explicitly talking about commuting in a small city, where there's a lot of start-and-stop-start bicycling is the "way of life". :-)