That's a good spread of gears. Question : why do you use the big ring only with the small cog, and the small ring with big cog only? That 58" gear seems to me to be very useful.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Deacon Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan, > > I have 32/40 front, 16/19 rear. I only run the high (outside) and low > (inside) combinations. To Patrick of the Moors' question on why Grant went > with front rather than rear for the difference, I can only speculate that > dual cogs may not have been readily available at the time? The upshot for > me is that I can maximize the spread and achieve roughly the same high low > ratios (with my 22t cog on the flip hub) as a IGH 3-speed, all within the > range of the 8-tooth spread the rear dropouts allow. My high gear has a > combined 56t, my low gear has 51, so with a spread of only 5t I have a gear > inches spread from 40ish to 70ish. Not bad range for a single speed. Grin. > See Sheldon's gear calculator chart attached. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xlvEVJKlKjc/WFae_T3JunI/AAAAAAAAAtU/YKiwYhHOasIdxB-rZCadM4hmFbPSuk8dACLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-12-18%2Bat%2B7.34.46%2BAM.png> > > > With abandon, > Patrick > > On Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 8:26:47 PM UTC-7, alan lavine wrote: >> >> Forgot to ask: what size chainrings and cogs do you use? >> >> Alan >> >> On Friday, December 16, 2016 at 3:06:03 PM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: >>> >>> Photos and drippings of ooze for one of my two favorite bicycles! >>> http://thegrid.ai/withabandon/quickbeam-sightings/ >>> >>> With abandon, >>> Patrick >>> >>> www.OurHolyConception.org >>> www.MindYourHeadCoop.org >>> >>> >>> -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
