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Oh come on, you are plenty strong enough. You should have seen @Grego grinding up the fire road at GE. He made it look easy. At one point I asked him how it accelerated and he took off in a blur going uphill and in seconds he was the size of my thumb in my field of view.

Did you know that there is a monster SS gal doing the Tour Divide Race? I heard she is pushing 36 up front and 18 in the back. YIKES! :eek:
 
Oh come on, you are plenty strong enough. You should have seen @Grego grinding up the fire road at GE. He made it look easy. At one point I asked him how it accelerated and he took off in a blur going uphill and in seconds he was the size of my thumb in my field of view.

Did you know that there is a monster SS gal doing the Tour Divide Race? I heard she is pushing 36 up front and 18 in the back. YIKES! :eek:
You must have big thumbs :thumbsup:
 
Oh come on, you are plenty strong enough. You should have seen @Grego grinding up the fire road at GE. He made it look easy. At one point I asked him how it accelerated and he took off in a blur going uphill and in seconds he was the size of my thumb in my field of view.

Did you know that there is a monster SS gal doing the Tour Divide Race? I heard she is pushing 36 up front and 18 in the back. YIKES! :eek:

Believe it or not, single speeding is more about relaxing... All the times when you're not hammering up a climb are for breathing and slowing everything on the body down. I'm not sure @UPSed is wired to slow down anymore!
 
Believe it or not, single speeding is more about relaxing... All the times when you're not hammering up a climb are for breathing and slowing everything on the body down. I'm not sure @UPSed is wired to slow down anymore!
I understand what you are saying but if you mix SS with a strong rider who prefers to go fast, you have get left behind. It's that simple.
 
I understand what you are saying but if you mix SS with a strong rider who prefers to go fast, you have get left behind. It's that simple.

You know this from your single speeding adventures? :p

If you take two riders of equal fitness, the only scenario that a single speeder wins is a route with sustained climbing. That is their bread and butter. For speed, the gears win on low grade climbs, low grade descents, and flat ground.

If single speeding were faster all the time, you'd see XC racers ditching their drivetrains...
 
You know this from your single speeding adventures? :p

If you take two riders of equal fitness, the only scenario that a single speeder wins is a route with sustained climbing. That is their bread and butter. For speed, the gears win on low grade climbs, low grade descents, and flat ground.

If single speeding were faster all the time, you'd see XC racers ditching their drivetrains...
Of course climbing comes into play, it's the key factor.

Take a strong SSer against a strong XCer (gears). The SSer is already flying downhill to the next climb before the XCer has even reached the top. That's winning.
 
Of course climbing comes into play, it's the key factor.

Take a strong SSer against a strong XCer (gears). The SSer is already flying downhill to the next climb before the XCer has even reached the top. That's winning.


That only works if the geared rider doesn't turn a harder gear than the single speed is locked into... If a single speed is locked at 32x20, and the grade allows the geared rider to turn 32x18 on a hill, guess who wins? XC racers do not use the crutch (42, 46, 50...) the way that normal humans do and they'll turn harder gears when possible. This is why all of our heavily ridden OC climbs are dominated by geared XC racers. They have the fitness to use their equipment...

It ain't about raw speed.
 
That only works if the geared rider doesn't turn a harder gear than the single speed is locked into... If a single speed is locked at 32x20, and the grade allows the geared rider to turn 32x18 on a hill, guess who wins? XC racers do not use the crutch (42, 46, 50...) the way that normal humans do and they'll turn harder gears when possible. This is why all of our heavily ridden OC climbs are dominated by geared XC racers. They have the fitness to use their equipment...

It ain't about raw speed.

Lets clone @Faust29 and put one of him on an XC HT of his choice amd put the other one on a SS of his choice. Obviously the geared bike is going to be heavier but it offers harder/faster gears. Its going to be a close race through the Santa Ana Mtns but my money is on SSSteve at the finish line first.
 
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Lets clone @Faust29 and put one of him on an XC HT of his choice amd put the other one on a SS of his choice. Obviously the geared bike is going to be heavier but it offers harder/faster gears. Its going to be a close race through the Santa Ana Mtns but my money is on SSSteve at the finish line first.

Steve has two bikes! With very few exceptions, I'm faster on Strava with the gears. The one big exception is the 9 mile Harding climb. I wimp out and switch to the granny gears and pray for survival. :oops:
 
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You rode with an Ebiker?
Oh hail no! That's @SS Barby , he's not that ghey. Just a photo Op.

We found it.
Wounded. Embarrassed. Scared. It's master no where in sight. It was just lying there literally in the middle of a dirt road at P12.
As we continued up the fire road, some dude came walking back down carrying a cane, but looked fit. It was confusing.
John asked him if that was his bike back there the guy said yes. We rode on...
 
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