This remark has nothing to do with winter pants, but it does bear on knee pain.
Ever since my high school days, when I believed that shifting to the smaller ring to climb hills was sissy, I've had a twinge in my left knee after just a bit of torquing a high gear up a hill while seated. (My first complete build, circa 1971, age 15 or 16, had a 50t ring and a 15 t cog.) A month or so ago, during an otherwise very pleasant and scenic gravel ride with 17 miles of climbing outbound (return in less than 1 hour versus the 2 hours oubound!) my left knee complained loud and long. It was almost instinctive to force myself to pedal by dropping my heel at the bottom of the stroke; sure enough, I found and continue to find that this goes a considerable way toward keeping the knee pain at bay. (As a fan of fixed gear riding who rides in rolling terrain, I've also learned to stand early, as soon as the slope starts to bog me down while sitting.) This afternoon, for example, I pushed a 75" gear against a slight headwind and up a very steep 1.3 km, and seasoned things with another 3 miles of more gradual climbing -- always being careful to drop my left heel if I was seated while applying heavy torque. Now, 1 1/2 hour later, when my left knee would in the past be bothering me -- no twinge atall. Knee covered by Nashbar Nickers at 65*F, too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
