Perry, You must be a lot stronger than I am. I did most of the Green Mtn. Loop a couple years ago when I 1st got the Sam. 4-5 days and packing gear for summer camping. Great experience but I was sure glad I had those low gears. Not too much use for the middle ring on that trip - it was a lot of back and forth between screaming downhills and long 4 mph climbs. Beautiful part of the world but a lot slower going than I expected. Humbling.
Jay On Thursday, June 20, 2013 6:09:35 AM UTC+3, bobish wrote: > > I like where this thread is headed... > > I've been doing something similar on all my bikes. Basically, any bike > that already came with a triple, I ride the middle ring 90% of the time and > use the small ring for steep hills. The large could be exchanged for a bash > guard but I don't bother. So 38/24, 45/28, whatever is on there for middle > and small rings, that's my double. I built up a mixte for my wife and for > that, I selected the VO Polyvalent Crankset which IIRC is 46/30. For the > freewheel or cassette, the wider the range the better I like it (11-32 or > 11-34 is nice, but I have the original 14-28 freewheel on an old trek). So > what? You shift, you pedal, you ride. It's all good. Nothing really > complicated going on and I never understood why people need to > over-complicate it. Taping gear ratios to handlebars? Been there, done > that, have the t-shirt. > > Keep it simple. > Perry > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
