Joel Morrissette

*Nigel Tufnel*: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most
blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way
up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can
you go from there? Where?
*Marty DiBergi*: I don't know.
*Nigel Tufnel*: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push
over the cliff, you know what we do?
*Marty DiBergi*: Put it up to eleven.
*Nigel Tufnel*: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
*Marty DiBergi*: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top
number and make that a little louder?
*Nigel Tufnel*: [*pause*] These go to eleven.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Erik Voldengen wrote:

> Not everyone has a 53 up front. I've got a 50 right now, and 50x11 is
> a nice gear to have sometimes. I was on a fast ride yesterday where I
> was certainly glad to have it, and I would say I'm a spinner.
>
> Also, if you have an 11, your peers will give you cool nicknames like
> "El Once." Nobody wants to be El Doce, or even worse, "Le Douze."
> Nobody.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Steve Brown
> wrote:
> > 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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