On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:32 PM, charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > > The > overall effect is that with a limited gear bike you use up your energy > climbing a higher than normal gear (faster) instead of hammering along > on the flats and gearing down on the climbs. > I am not sure how to label it other than to say I use my energy > differently.
Amen to that, plus you "strategize" your efforts much more, in other simpler words, you plan ahead. This, to me, is a large part of the fun of single speeding (in my case, mostly fixed). I tried a 60" gear fixed off road for a while, but found the (steeper than road) downhills supremely annoying, and -- with the 175s on it at the time -- found myself flailing angrily and futiley on the flats, so I bumped it up to 64-65" and it was fine. I think given my predilection for mashing, that a 65" gear on road ought to serve me as a 60" gear does you. Thanks for the feedback, that helps me learn what low gear to start with. My Technium was certainly not a high end one, since, even with the aluminum tubing, it was quite a heavyweight. And it had long stays (I ran 32s -- possibly even 35s, I can't remember, but certainly at least 32s; big white tires -- with fenders). It would have made a wonderful QB surrogate and I'm sorry now I sold it. Oh well. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
