Jim, So, when we did the Riv. weekend and you used your QB, what was the gear going up?
I myself use 44x18 or 48x20, spin out around 28 mph and do the South Bay training ride on fixed all the time. My feeling is find the gears you like for what you do. If you ride the track, 40x17 is a joke, but 50x15 is also a joke for the road. Ron On Dec 8, 8:41 am, CycloFiend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 12/7/08 6:55 PM, Esteban at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I just wanted to say how great the stock gearing is on the bike. When > > I first got it, I was frustrated about having to spin so much on flats > > and coast downhill. Now I really appreciate it, especially because > > 40x18 gets me up almost any hill, including those on this ride, and > > even up Potrero Hill in San Francisco. Actually, mid-grade ascents > > seem *easier* on the Quickbeam. I can't explain that. 40x18 also > > seems to be a great touring set-up. Its fun to learn to love things > > that you might initially shun. > > One of the benefits of switching to a single-geared system is that finding > that you as the rider possess a number of gears as well. Roughly speaking, > when using the Quickbeam, I figure there's roughly four - Cruising on > flattish surfaces, Seated Climbing, Climbing using your body weight in a > long, lopey cadence (an excellent way to recover on longer climbs, btw), > Serious Climbing (which probably has three phases: sweating, cursing, and > about to pop). (And, since I run the QB fixed a lot, there's the > exponentially-increasing-cadence-while-trying-to-keep-smooth zen state > thing...) > > What's great (if you indulge in the heresy of geared/coastable riding) is > that this carries back into geared riding, along with a better sense of > maintaining momentum. Catching folks who blew past on the flats while > grunting out a 53x11, but climb at at 39x32 is just a happy coincidence. > > The Quickbeam remains my favorite bike. So simple, yet so danged adaptable. > > - Jim > -- > Jim Edgar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries -http://www.cyclofiend.com > Current Classics - Cross Bikes > Singlespeed - Working Bikes > > Send In Your Photos! - Here's how:http://www.cyclofiend.com/guidelines > > "I had to ride slow because I was taking my guerrilla route, the one I > follow when I assume that everyone in a car is out to get me." > -- Neal Stephenson, "Zodiac" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
