Hi all. One of the bikes I brought with me to Boston when I moved was a Quickbeam with 38mm tires, 42 teeth in front and 16 in back. Sheldon puts it that 71.7 inches. That worked well on the long, straight, and relatively uninterrupted roads north of Indianapolis, but I now find it too high because of the traffic and the congestion on paths. I have to stop and go much more often and don't go as fast even when I am riding, and I want to lower the gearing to adjust for these new limitations. Mainly I want to be able to get up to speed faster and easier when taking off from a red light, but also my overall cruising speed is slower because of the vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
If I go from 16 to 17 teeth in back then the gear goes from 71.7 to 67.5 inches, a 6.3% reduction. Going from 16 to 18 teeth sends me down to 63.7 inches, an 11.2% reduction. I know I'll feel the change from 16 to 18, but in your experience would I notice a 6% reduction from 16 to 17, or is that too small a jump to make any practical difference? Any recommendations from the single-speeders out there? Thanks. Dave Boston/Indy -- 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.
