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Triple/Double

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  1. davek wrote:

    I was having to get out of the saddle

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    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.

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