Amen (and a respectful minute or two of silence) for the half step + granny setup. Except, you don't need more than, say, six cogs to make it work and once you get (or, at least, once *I* get to seven, I run out of things to do with the extreme cogs. What do you do with the extras?
I used to love my commuting 48/45 with something like 12-13-15-17-20-24-32 semi/syntho/faux/ersatzsemi/demi/ halfstep setup: the 12 was strictly for the outer for downhills with winds; 13 thru 24 half stepped beautifully with a 24.75" wheel; and the 32 was for the 43 that, therewith, gave me a stump pulling 33" gear for the one or two very steep hills I encountered. Odd: I find that I'd much rather have these gears: 85-75-70-65-60-50 than a much wider range of gears without the 70, 65 and 60 inchers. Patrick "Just spreading myself (in M Twain's idiom) and not criticizing anyone. I have for very long found bicycle gearing a fascinating topic, even when I use very few" Moore On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:03 PM, GAJett <guy4j...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've ridden a Brooks Pro for years, first on a Raleigh Competition > (replacing the original B-17) and now on an AHH. It has NEVER hurt me, > even when new, the way other saddles have. And it has never seen the > business end of any blunt instrument (other than my bum). > > BTW my gearing is a "half-step + granny": > front: 44 / 41 / 24 > rear: 12 / 14 / 16 / 18 / 21 / 24 / 28 / 32 / 36. > This gives a gear range from 18.2 to 100.2 inches on 650Bs. It'll climb > just about anything where I can keep the front wheel down, and I can keep > climbing when bonked. > > This is based on a standard Shimano cassette from RBW and a special > combination of chainwheels with Sugino 44 and 24 ordered from RBW and the > 41 a TA from Harris Cyclery. Kudos for Grant and the RBW staff from > setting this up. > > For those not familiar with the "half-step + granny" you can consider this > to be a compact double with the ability to fine-tune the gearing on the > high side between the large chainwheels. I've ridden this type of gearing > for 30 years and wouldn't change for anything! (Originally a TA 49 / 46 / > 26 by SunTour Ultra 13 / 15 / 17 / 20 / 23 / 26 102 to 27 inches -- I'm > getting older.) > Cheers. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ilumVpNiJxMJ. > > 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. > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html -- 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.
