and stomp really hard to gain any forward momentum at all. OK, I got
up
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them all in the end, and those steep hills would have been difficult even with a triple, but they wouldn't have been nearly as painful.
But you would have been able to stay in the saddle and save the extra weight on your kness with a triple? Is the whole argument a bit like shaved legs? (which Sean Yates came up with some good reasons for- if you are a pro) Triples have only been around on fully fledged road bikes a short while and are frowned upon in some quarters, even though they enable you to keep your cadence going for much longer up hills.