two years ago when my daughter was big enough to ride a full-sized bike, I bought her a Nexus 8- speed city bike. We replaced the 800-g city tires with panasports 28mm and made it pretty quick. I give her gears to climb the hills around here, by changing her chainring from 44T to 42T and upped the rear drive sprocket from 20T to 22T. Her 8 gears are 26" to 83", the shorter gears spaced by 6" and the tallest by 9". It's a real tree climber and load hauler.
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/bike/aP4140007.jpg> On Sunday, August 18, 2013 4:07:32 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I am contemplating a second rear wheel for my '03 Curt Custom, a fixed > gear bike, and I am thinking that, instead of all the nastiness involved > with a derailleur drivetrain, a simple hub gear might be very nice. > > The gaps of the AW are so hugely absurd that it doesn't make sense, for me > at any rate, to use the middle/direct gear as my cruising gear -- what the > hell would I do with a 93" gear? So I would arrange things so that the 33% > augment in gear 3 would give me roughly 70", so that 2 would be ~53 and 1 ~ > 39". > > But I don't want any additional significant drag -- have read the recent > BQ. > > But the AW, now: that one is so simple that drag ought to be much less > than with a more complex geared hub, no? Did Berto test this somewhere? > > Any advice welcome. > > Thanks. > > -- > *RESUMES THAT GET YOU NOTICED!* > Certified Resume Writer > http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > patric...@resumespecialties.com <javascript:> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > > Albuquerque, NM > -- 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.
