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From: jeff@dual.UUCP (Jeff Houston)
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Subject: Re: how to ride, shoes, gear query
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 20:41:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 20:41:20 1984
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Poor Todd, too many beers and not enough miles???

Perhaps a few more well placed training miles with the load you were gonna
carry might have helped make the hills a bit flater.  If an easier gear is
needed you might consider a triple crank and/or a freewheel with up to a 34
tooth max.  This will give some really low gears to ride up even the slopes
of Mt. Rainier.  I think that Shimano, Suntour, and Sugino all have models
in both cranks and freewheels, check these out.  I'm still crazy and use a
60 low gear, 42/19.  Even rode around Mt. Rainier one day last summer with
this set up.  But for anyone going out for a long, hilly ride it is best to
know the terrain to be covered, distance, and what kind of shape your body
is in before attempting it.  Bike trips are done for fun, and you don't
get much of that without the right kind of planning and training.

	Jeff Houston
	Dual Systems Corp., Berkeley, CA
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