>>2004718I do not agree with that at all, no. It was entirely use case dependent. This guy for example got a good result from "retarded" gearing. Most consumers/amateur cyclists did not, but the problem was not the tightness, it was the range of speeds at the optimal RPM (another issue was that people pedaled too slowly back then, probably as a coping mechanism for hard compromises that only allowed for ideal results in an extremely specific set of circumstances).
