Lyle, Wow. 48x18 is impressive for trail riding! I ride up in my either a 44x21 57” gear (Quickbeam) or 34x22 47” (Hunqabeam). Coming down, I’m in “high” gear generally, 71” 61” respectively), but on snowy trails or bikepacking I stay in low for the extra torque backpedaling. My bikepack gear for trail riding (Hunqabeam) is 34x22, 42”.
Mark, 28x18 is quite low gearing, and is roughly my lowest gear for trails when bikepacking. Rather than going up incramentally, what if you jumped to a 60ish” (2+” tires) or 70” (38mm or so tires) gear and see what that is like to ride, so you learn the other end of the spectrum. I think you’ll be plesently surprised how much you can ride with a bigger gear, then you may end up splitting the difference around 50-55” for dedicated trail riding. With abandon, Patrick -- 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.
