When I ride a multi-gear bike, I tend to ride it as a single-speed, only changing gears when I really have to. I don't remember the exact gear inches but err on the lower side, probably around the 60'ish gear-inch range.
On the rare occasions when I get out on a long stretch, even a very modest downslope ends up in my spinning out my 90'ish gear-inch top end. Straight and level riding bores me, so I rarely do that and mainly stick to slower riding with lots of twists and turns around the neighborhood's streets and greenbelt sidewalks. On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 10:55:41 AM UTC-6 Patrick Moore wrote: > Idle thoughts while waiting for a client call in 9 minutes. > > Snow here this morning, tho' it won't stick; still, one hopes to get > enough to stay around long enough so one can ride in it. > > Which raiseth the question: for a single speed mtb used for casual dirt > road and flat dirt track riding, sand and (again, one hopes) snow, as well > as casual pavement and firm dirt riding, what gear would you choose? Mine > is presently 65" (180 mm cranks) which is low and easy for dry land riding, > but I am thinking about swapping the 15 for a 16 for 61", but wonder if > that would be too low for pavement. OEM gearing (as I got it) was 50", > which is far too low for anything I do. > > I could always just try it, but that wouldn't solve the question about > what to do in the remaining minutes before this call. > > Seriously, I'm curious what y'all use for just puttering around. > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4482e5e2-5103-4f29-bb2b-b93a8d27f658n%40googlegroups.com.
