I will second the internal hub. Sounds like your knees are no longer up to having only one speed any more so it is time to get some gears. When I have to do something with my QB because of my old knees this is the way I will go. It has much more cool factor then a deraileur bike.
Larry Powers Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. - Mark Twain Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:03:01 -0700 Subject: [RBW] Quickbeam gearing for hills and weak knee? From: whalen...@gmail.com To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Hi All, I love my Quickbeam but the combo of living on a hill and having a deteriorating knee that I want to avoid mashing on is limiting my riding with it. I now have 40/30 front and a 17/19 freewheel. I'd love to get it set up so I could spin home uphill and am willing to sacrifice top speed to do so, but also need to keep enough top end to ride safely on streets with cars. I'd also like to avoid flipping the wheel to get to an even lower outer freewheel. So, any thoughts about how I could modify my current gearing to favor easy climbing yet still have a bike that was geared high enough to be rideable on streets downtown? Thanks in advance. Tim Still wanting it all in Colorado Springs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
