Nick, my daughter's Nexus bike came with 44T chainring and a 20T cog. This gave her 31" to 96". The swap displaced everything shorter by a gear step. There are some short very steep hills in my neighborhood and getting home is always the hardest part of a ride from my house. The shorter setup also agreed with Sheldon's description of where you want your gears. With the current setup, 6 and 7 are 63" and 73" - cruising speed.
On Thursday, July 4, 2013 2:43:53 AM UTC-5, Nick Worthington wrote: > > Also haven't toured with mine (yet), but +1 for the Paul Melvin. My > Alfine 8 has the standard cog, 22t?, and I run a 28/48 in front. Like it a > lot. > > Nick W. > > On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 3:15:55 PM UTC-7, Peter M wrote: >> >> I have an Alfine 8 setup on my Bombadil but I don't do touring. Its >> plenty of gears for rolling hills around here. We do have a couple of steep >> ones too. If you get a decent tensioner like a Paul Melvin you can run a >> compact double up front and have 16 speeds, although there might be some >> overlap, I am not a Patrickesque gearing ratio expert. I run the older >> Nexus 7 on my MB2 with a triple, which voids the warranty I think due to do >> torque specifications (in low gears) but have been running it for 3 years >> and haven't blown it up yet. .. >> >> -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
