Re: Gear inch equivalent for muni climbing

adjuggler

mtnjeffe wrote:
> Within the advice many of you have given me regarding muni hill climbing
> it has been suggested that if you can climb it on a mountainbike you can
> likely climb it on a muni. This is obviously dependent on equivalent
> gearing...


I would say against this, now of course your level of skill is going to
determine how steep an angle of a hill you can climb with a unicycle,
but I believe a bike will almost always win. Not only do they have an
increased surface area in contact with the ground increasing stability
and traction but their riders have the ability to "stand up" and shift
their center of gravity. Other added advantage of bicycles is a
toeclip which uses more muscles in your thigh to pull the cranks around
after pushing down.
Unicycle on the other hand can only shift their weight forward and do
not get to influence the way they are pedaling the bike (i.e. the
position relative to the pedals {center of gravity})


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