Philip, sounds pretty perfect - I have 3 bikes with low gears in the low-20s, rarely have a chance to use them, but will often choose a 30" gear to get home after a long ride - mentioned before any ride from home ends with a 400' climb hitting 14% grade in 3 spots. One nice thing about those low gears is you can get started up any grade.
On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 12:12:27 AM UTC-5, Philip Williamson wrote: > > I don’t think I can ride gears as low as you like, but I can sure ride > those RM-3s! They’re virtually identical to my 80s WTB Cunningham bars. I > just need to swap my non-aero levers for something with usable hoods. Good > bars. > > My favorite gearing is 24-34-46 with a 12-27 road cassette, on 26” tires. > Maybe with a longer wheelbase and bigger tires I could stay seated, but I > run out of air at lower gears. 28” seems like the lowest usable gear for > me. When I hop off and walk, I don’t lose much ground to the twiddlers, > either. I don’t ride loaded touring bikes, but I weigh a lot. > > Philip > Santa Rosa, CA > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
