Dan,
I enjoy the bike surveys each year. With some of the discussions recently about Triathlete grinding it out in too big of a gear I was wondering if you have any statistics on gearing for Kona?
ie. How many oversized chainrings (greater than 53)
any compact gearing (50-34 ((maybe this is too new)))
% of triples (probably very small but very interesting nonetheless)
Kona has the long downhill with tailwind from hawi. So many Bring Massive gearing for this section.
BTW I knw a guy who went to Kona with a single "big" chainring several years ago and he said it was the most miserable day he ever experienced.
That tremendous wind can knock you on your ass!
I enjoy the bike surveys each year. With some of the discussions recently about Triathlete grinding it out in too big of a gear I was wondering if you have any statistics on gearing for Kona?
ie. How many oversized chainrings (greater than 53)
any compact gearing (50-34 ((maybe this is too new)))
% of triples (probably very small but very interesting nonetheless)
Kona has the long downhill with tailwind from hawi. So many Bring Massive gearing for this section.
BTW I knw a guy who went to Kona with a single "big" chainring several years ago and he said it was the most miserable day he ever experienced.
That tremendous wind can knock you on your ass!