On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 17:21 -0700, PATRICK MOORE wrote: >> I briefly ran a sub 18" gear way back in the days of 28 tooth big >> cogs, using a Mountain Tamer Quad; I think the low was 18 or even 16 X >> 28. It was pretty useless off road, mostly because by the time you had >> managed to curse the chain onto the sub-granny, you had already fallen >> over. But even the 24X34 -- 20" -- on the 29" wheel Fargo feels hugely >> non-resistant. > > It will, unless you have a major grade to work against. >
I will probably be happy to have such (20" or lower) a gear for touring, if I ever get around to doing some touring (hope to in '11). But on dirt (Fargo is also my dirt bike) I tend to lose balance before I run out of torque with such low gears -- IOW, my handling abilities fall short of my power -- since I bail to this sort of gear only on a sandy hill. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
