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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

Road Bike Gear Shifting 101

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Old 04-22-04, 03:50 PM
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but you have to do what you think feels best.
My argument to this is, that to a beginner, what feels best in most sports and especially cycling, can be way wrong. If you put someone on a road bike for the first time with no advice except do what feels good, they would more than likely have a frame that is too small, a big squishy saddle, saddle way too low, mash a way too big gear, not drink enough, and not wear a helmet.

As a matter of fact. That is what you see all the time on typical bike paths.
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