craig austin

Probably someone who went to compact cranks and spins out in the 50-12.

2008/8/29 john

> its not for sprinting... I typically gear into a 14 or 15 or 16 and
> wind it up when i sprint. but then i use to be able to put it over 200 rpm
> (on rollers.. ) As i get older I am slowly losing this spin.. and do tend
> to push bigger gears.
>
> What these big gears are nice for is for rolling along in a big peloton..
> or fast paceline, when at the back, switch up to a big gear and push
> along... just for a change to the muscles. I have done a few races where i
> rarely came out of the biggest gear... but a while ago and probably a
> 52x13.
>
> I almost never use an 11, now sometimes use a 12, but use to almost always
> use a 13 with a 53.. Now i might with compact gearing, but then my big
> ring will be a 46, 48 at most a 50..
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 8/29/08, Steve Brown * wrote:
>
> From: Steve Brown
> Subject: [OBRA Chat] Who needs an 11?
> To: "OBRA list"
> Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 2:45 PM
>
> Coming to cycling late in life, only having knowledge of some track
> stuff and always interested to learn something new. I was somewhat
> puzzled last week when I heard someone was selling a 12-25 cassette
> because they needed and 11. Just a few days ago when I was hanging
> with some of the big dog sprinters, they seemed to feel that a 53-12
> should be enough meat to get you where you wanted to go. And as far
> as I knew, Nigel Tufnel was really the only person to need an 11.
> So where does a roadie use an 11? 53-12 at 100 rpm's is 35 mph.
>
> Steve
> Brown
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