I don't think it's a myth at all! Over torque your knees and you *will* hurt them. The question is instead, "how much mashing, and with what techniques and in what conditions, and with what palliatives, can your knees take without damage?"
If I were to climb some of my hills always seated, I'm sure my knees would at the very least hurt the next day and quite possibly suffer damage. If I were to double my mileage in the same conditions, I'm sure it would affect my knees. If I used a 90" gear instead of a 70" gear, it would very possibly hurt my knees. The question is, where do you safely draw the line? And, also, different people's knees can take more or less of this high torque pedaling. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's just "one of those myths" Matt ! > > Like : long cranks are good or bad for your knees, or short cranks are > good or bad ! Nothing of itself is good or bad , we all* choose *to > make it(whatever the matter) good or bad , and hark ! what do we get ? ... > but more it ! Self fulfilling prophecies abound . > > > > On Sunday, May 11, 2014 4:15:59 PM UTC-4, Matt Lynch wrote: >> >> I've always understood that hammering tall gears will, over time, be >> detrimental to knee health. Sure, it's fun to blast up the occasional hill >> in a high gear, but for daily use I will continue to spin. And for this, >> where I live anyway, I need plenty of gears. >> >> Just my opinion, >> >> Matt >> >> >> -- > 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/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis ************************************* "In yourself right now is all the place you've got." Flannery O'Connor -- 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/d/optout.
