Your Favourite Gear Ratio

croonneck
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio

Postby croonneck » Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:05 pm

ColinOldnCranky wrote:My favourite gear ratio? Hmmm, lemme think about that...

thinking...thinking...thinking...

Ah yes, 1:1giving me 24 gear inches. No cogs, fixed wheel with cranks attached direct to the wheel hub.
Likewise :)

But, on my mountain bike, I normally find myself on 44/16
and on my road bike i normally find myself on 53/17

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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio

Postby .isaac. » Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:40 pm

BRLVR.v2 wrote: 17 skid patches FTW
Was coming here to post exactly the same thing.
46x17.

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kreyziest
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio

Postby kreyziest » Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:03 am

49-17 for now, but i'm changing to 48-17 soon.

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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio

Postby munga » Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:35 am

Here you go, mate. nice chainring!
grinderman wrote:test image load... :?

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well that didnt seem to work,
here are links instead,'

Repco Revenge 60 x 17
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the Repco is the training bike for my unofficial world record attempt on

the Worlds fastest Raleigh Twenty 80 x 20
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Martin, who kicked off this thread may recognise this as my blue bike repainted from jhnboy on the R20 forum

Ride 1 in 20
http://theclimbingcyclist.com/climbs/mt ... e-1-in-20/

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that's a Malvern Star Revenge, by the way.

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kreyziest
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio

Postby kreyziest » Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:33 pm

That's B-I-G :twisted:
How's your knee now? still there :mrgreen:

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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio

Postby BRLVR.v2 » Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:04 pm

48x17 with a 28 tyre= 75 ish GI, seems to be a nice place for me on latest scoot.

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