Yeah, the need to get up a few hills is what would keep me from adopting a 1x drivetrain. I really ideally like to have something a little lower than 1:1. Using Sheldon Brown's gear calculator, my current lowest gear is 21.4 gear inches (650Bx38, 175mm crank, 44/28 front 11-34 rear). It may sound a bit crazy but I would like something even lower to get up Barton Creek Blvd in Austin which is officially 13% max grade but when I had a Garmin I saw it go into the upper teens at a few places on the hill.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am in no way tempted to run a single speed and definitely not fixed. > There are just too many steep climbs in my life. My double speed with a > 52" low gear allows me to mash up my every single day climb home. The 67" > high gear lets me spin away on the flats at a speed that will eventually > get me there. If I had only a 67" gear the bike would be unusable to me > because I'd have to walk home the last mile and a half of every ride. If I > had only a 52" fixed I'd be miserable trying to pedal down in the first > place. > > What this 1x9 does have me noodling over is the ultimate "Delaware Gear". > It's late February and we haven't had any really nasty arguments, so I'll > start a new thread titled "In search of the Delaware Gear" and see how many > people I can piss off. Sharpen your claws, kitties! > > > On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 7:14:05 AM UTC-8, Kieran J wrote: >> >> Bill, if you start talking about getting a unicycle, we'll start to >> worry.. >> >> KJ >> >> On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 7:05:39 AM UTC-5, ted wrote: >>> >>> Which in turn is a gateway to fixed. >> >> -- > 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/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- 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/d/optout.
