I've had very good luck with Sturmey Archer's S3X fixed gear 3-speed hub. The low gear is 60% of the top gear, so a reasonable flatland gear around 72 inches would give you a 43-inch low gear. That should be enough to get you up most hills, and you can shift on the fly. If you don't want to ride fixed, you can spin a single-speed freewheel onto the S3X, turning it into a "standard" 3-speed hub (but with simpler internals, since the pawls would be in the freewheel).
--Eric N Sent from my iPad2 On Dec 14, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Tim Whalen <whalen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I love my Quickbeam but the combo of living on a hill and having a > deteriorating knee that I want to avoid mashing on is limiting my riding with > it. I now have 40/30 front and a 17/19 freewheel. I'd love to get it set up > so I could spin home uphill and am willing to sacrifice top speed to do so, > but also need to keep enough top end to ride safely on streets with cars. > I'd also like to avoid flipping the wheel to get to an even lower outer > freewheel. > > So, any thoughts about how I could modify my current gearing to favor easy > climbing yet still have a bike that was geared high enough to be rideable on > streets downtown? > > Thanks in advance. > > Tim > Still wanting it all in > Colorado Springs > > -- > 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. -- 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.
