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Daily gripe: What's a gear?

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From: Walt Horning
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:00
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On a road where it was hard to get around a trio of bicyclists, I
found myself doing 5 mph behind this group.

I noted that:

 - they had "high-tech" bikes
 - they were all dressed the same in windbreaker clothing
 - they seemed to be in training.

Question: Do any of these people know how to shift gears? They were
all peddling as if they were in a lower gear (fast peddling, while
little forward momentum). The road was flat. As speed builds up, going
to a higher gear to gain even more speed would make peddling easier
relative to speed. They did not seem to know this. They could have
easily done 30-35 mph in an upper gear.

Anyway, I felt like despite the high-tech bikes and biking clothes,
that these clowns still did not know what a higher gear was, and so I
got stuck for several minutes at a crawl until opposing traffic
cleared out. 
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From: whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning)
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Date: 1999/01/17
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