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Article #13126Daily gripe: What's a gear?
From: Walt Horning
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:00
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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