You can have ultra low gears (lower than any stock bike) and keep decently high gears. You just need to be willing to operate outside the box a bit. You can even use a double... but you need a specific kinda double, a wide range one, like the White Industries VBC road cranks. A 44/24 combo up front and a 11-40 cassette in the back let you ride really low low gears, but still keep your high gears. I have it on my Sam, works great. I could blather on about it, but if you want to know specifics, IE what you'd have to change, let me know, I'm happy to help.
-James 'Turkey Vulture gearing' Johnson On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 4:04:50 PM UTC-4, JP wrote: > > Yes i'm learning about options with regard to new gearing - i have a few > technical questions about it. I don't mind coasting a bit downhill as well > if that's a limitation of a double that requires less torque from me. > > On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 9:14:13 AM UTC-7, Dorothy C wrote: >> >> Why sell the Sam and not just put a new crank and cassette on it? > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/feccdfdb-6ad6-4ceb-92f2-2f735e645b4c%40googlegroups.com.
