Your Favourite Gear Ratio
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby hartleymartin » Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:49 pm
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby bergs » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:03 pm
48/15 on my track bike
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby .isaac. » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:07 pm
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby Resg » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:56 am
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby yehuda » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:00 am
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby G-rig » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:11 pm
Same. Can't imagine having harder gearing (at least until my legs are stronger again) as you still lose a fair bit of speed on short sharp hills (compared to my road bike). This gear also spins out fairly quickly but is good for improving your spinning, and can still wind out to 35km/hr quite comfortably. Seems good overall but may change to a 17T on the rear once I get back in form.bergs wrote:46/18 on my fixed commuter
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby elStado » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:37 am
Haven't you been building a "fixie" for the past few years? When are you actually going to cobble together the required parts and actually build it?EvilGenius wrote:Im going 46/17 on my First Fixed.
I've got 52x18 on the SS and 52x17 on the fixed side, even then the SS side is way too spinny and the 17T is borderline too low. Might drop it down to a 16T which should be just right.yehuda wrote:I'm now 51x18 on one bike and 48x19 on the other. I ride brakeless so I like as much skid patches as possible. Although the 48x19 is a bit too spinny, I may throw a 17t on the back.
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby .isaac. » Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:38 am
Haven't you been building a "fixie" for the past few years? When are you actually going to cobble together the required parts and actually build it?elStado wrote:EvilGenius wrote:Im going 46/17 on my First Fixed.
Have a look at my thread.
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby Lark2004 » Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:02 pm
well...... he has been mucking around with trying to get bits and pieces for a few months, not years and he hasn't built it, he got a shop to put it all together for him at least with the shop having done all the work, the bike should be fairly safe to ride.EvilGenius wrote:Have a look at my thread.elStado wrote:Haven't you been building a "fixie" for the past few years? When are you actually going to cobble together the required parts and actually build it?EvilGenius wrote:Im going 46/17 on my First Fixed.
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby .isaac. » Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:32 pm
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby dizit » Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:06 pm
46/15
its hard to ride but no where near as much strain trying to take off on my mtb in 10th gear.
really should put a brake on it...
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby .isaac. » Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:58 pm
YOU HAVE NO BRAKE ON 46/15? Thats ridiculous, I sometimes have trouble with 46/17.dizit wrote:I don't know if this is my favourite ratio, but it's what I'm running atm.
46/15
its hard to ride but no where near as much strain trying to take off on my mtb in 10th gear.
really should put a brake on it...
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby singlespeedscott » Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:10 pm
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby pathobo » Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:59 pm
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby G-rig » Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:35 pm
One speed doesn't do either real well.
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby dizit » Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:10 pm
Yea it was a bit getting used to, but i ride around at a luxurious pace no matter what bike I'm on so speed isn't much of an issue.EvilGenius wrote:YOU HAVE NO BRAKE ON 46/15? Thats ridiculous, I sometimes have trouble with 46/17.
that and having no helmet atm also causes me to avoid main roads. so lower chances of emergency stops
and if i do need to stop fast...
foot jams with volleys stick like poop on a blanket
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby rustychisel » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:16 am
Yeah, but you're running SS not fixed. We all used to do that on 'skidkid' bikes, my record was wearing out 3 pairs of Volleys in one summer, but try doing it on a fixed gear bike and you'll win a quick trip to Emergency with a broken ankle or leg. Hint: the cranks keep going around.dizit wrote:Yea it was a bit getting used to, but i ride around at a luxurious pace no matter what bike I'm on so speed isn't much of an issue.EvilGenius wrote:YOU HAVE NO BRAKE ON 46/15? Thats ridiculous, I sometimes have trouble with 46/17.
that and having no helmet atm also causes me to avoid main roads. so lower chances of emergency stops
and if i do need to stop fast...
foot jams with volleys stick like poop on a blanket
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby dizit » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:29 pm
It is a fixed gear bike, i just lift both feet off, left foot on the front and then have the side/top of my right on the back. the rear is all for show really but it keeps my legs out of the way of the pedals.rustychisel wrote:Yeah, but you're running SS not fixed. We all used to do that on 'skidkid' bikes, my record was wearing out 3 pairs of Volleys in one summer, but try doing it on a fixed gear bike and you'll win a quick trip to Emergency with a broken ankle or leg. Hint: the cranks keep going around.
i have never needed to use it yet but i do it most times before i turn into the drive way at the end of a ride for good measure.
don't worry I am in the process of installing a front brake, and getting a helmet... which should be all in next week or so.
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby europa » Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:37 am
It gives a cadence of 90 at about 30 km/hr which is a nice median speed on the flat. I can pull 40km/hr for extended distances on the flat (with my heart rate monitor having hysterics), can climb up the first hill on the Veloway here in Adelaide (with my hrm having hysterics) and regularly top 50km/hr going down the hills (that's a cadence of 150+ so it's usually me that's having hysterics).
It's all rather personal though. The trick is to find a gear that puts the extremes of your riding at the edges of your gearing and that depends on the topography, your strength and, often, how stubborn you are.
Richard
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby Mugglechops » Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:00 pm
My fixie was 65in and was good for riding to work but not the best for riding home as I had to spin out too much downhill. Changed it to 77in but have not ridden that gear yet as my frame cracked and i am waiting on a new one.
With gears I just use whatt I have got my Cyclocross bike has 46/36 and a 12-27 cassette and my 6inch dually has 44/32/22 with an 11-34 cassette.
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
Postby mmhbeer » Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:30 pm
When I flip the wheel for a ride in the hills I run 76 gear inches.
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
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Re: Your Favourite Gear Ratio
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