In alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent on 19 Jun 2008 10:09:03 GMT
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
I'm slow up hills, I have found that I don't have the aerobic fitness
to spin up them, so I tend to grind away in a lower gear. So up
Melville St which ranges from 1 in 8 to 1 in 6 for 800m, I start in

ack. What was I thinking? you'd need a ladder for that!

it's 50m of climbing in 800m, so that's what, 1 in 16! not one in 6.

Whatever the numbers, it's a ******* of a hill.

Zebee