Fuck off, it’s only marginally better than the mercatone Uno yellow Bianchi
Edit… It’s better than I remember
kay the pink one is bad, but this one is actually pretty nice.
It’s better than I remember
That’s an EPO era rear cassette if ever I’ve seen one.
53x39 23/11T
Could be worse, they rode 52x42 19/11T in the 60s, with maybe a 21T cassette for the mountains
Don’t reckon I could get a 39x23 up my road
Honestly watching that documentary about the Giro was ridiculous cause of the gearing more than anything else. Eddy just churning away in this huge gear at the front for almost the entire race.
Doping prick
But bikes were custom fit and they actually used their lumbar muscles to ride up hill.
Fuck knows how they did it. I used to ride 52x39 23/12 and that was bad enough. Rode the Aubisque with a 50/25T which was fine.
fuckin’ doper
Paedo sympathiser (David Walsh, not you)
oh shit, really?!
Yeah. An Irish journalist was recently convicted for grooming and paedo stuff. Walsh wrote the judge a letter saying how much of a nice guy he was to try and get his sentence reduced.
AFAIK he continued to support him after he was charged but not sure.
Jeez. Got a 34x32 as my granny ring. Only drop into it on really nasty stuff but glad it’s there
fucking hell.
34x25 was my max for years. Loved it. Riding 36x28 now which is fine, even for a slow fat fuck bloke myself
Yeah. Probably best not to use him as a good judge of character. He thinks Froome is clean FFS
Gonna swap the 11-32 out for a 11-28 in the summer on mine. The jump between the 32 and the 28 is ridiculous and you lose loads of power so it doesn’t even help! 11-30 would be better spread, think SRAM do those?
Really don’t think that you gain anything at all with anything over 28. It might seem easier, but you’re probably spending more energy spinning a very high cadence. That’s why triples are shit 52x40x30, you lose all power.
