(August 30, 2016 at 11:12 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(August 30, 2016 at 11:08 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Beat.
So I bought a bicycle yesterday. Haven't ridden in 25 years. I got the bright idea to, instead of getting off the bus at my regular stop (2/3 mile from home, flat terrain), I would get off downtown (nearly three miles from home with a worse than expected brutal uphill stretch).
Same thing here. Imagine my horror having just discovered and tried the maximum speed of my bike going uphill.
OMG, I'm not sure which gear I was in, but it's the one where you pedal furiously and move uphill at a snails pace.
I'm not giving up though. I just need to work up to it, and probably get a lot better about gear selection and such. My bike is a 21 speed like practically every bike made today but so far I keep the front sprocket on the middle gear, so it's effectively only seven the way I'm riding.