Vuelta Stage 15: what gears?

Robert Chung said:

The first 140km are flat or downhill. The last 10km are, um, not.

No problem, even for 9 speed (couldn't find Shimano 10 speed combinations). Just 53/39 with 12-23
for the heroes and 12-25 for the lesser gods. Maybe 54 or 55, don't know how serious the downhill
is. No need for the 27 I think, it's only 2k above 10%. Piece of cake.

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Robert Chung said:

The first 140km are flat or downhill. The last 10km are, um, not.

No problem, even for 9 speed (couldn't find Shimano 10 speed combinations). Just 53/39 with 12-23
for the heroes and 12-25 for the lesser gods. Maybe 54 or 55, don't know how serious the downhill
is. No need for the 27 I think, it's only 2k above 10%. Piece of cake.

In can't help noticing that again you're giving no information about Leontien :-(

Benjo Maso

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The first 140km are flat or downhill. The last 10km are, um, not. The profile:
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Roberto Heras used a 25 last year, iirc. ONCE ground their way up in 23s (Saiz said something about
them not being tourists), and they lost the jersey oro (held by Zarrabeita, I think).