[RBW] Can you feel a 1.3 gear inch difference going uphill?

2017-09-01 Thread Marc Irwin
I feel everything going uphill. Marc -- 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,

Re: [RBW] Can you feel a 1.3 gear inch difference going uphill?

2017-09-01 Thread Steve Palincsar
If you take it to the extreme, at some point when you're on the very threshold of ability that 1.3 gear inch difference is going to be the difference between blowing up and not blowing up, so then you will surely see and feel the difference. When you're not out on the extreme raggedy edge,

[RBW] Can you feel a 1.3 gear inch difference going uphill?

2017-09-01 Thread Garth
Who's to say it does or not, since thee answer "depends" on the rider, bike, terrain, climate and all intangibles. So one answer just won't do, look at the Whole picture and you see it doesn't matter in that the Whole picture does not depend on anything "in" the picture since everything "in"

Re: [RBW] Can you feel a 1.3 gear inch difference going uphill?

2017-08-31 Thread Ron Mc
Patrick is pretty close on this one. I can't tell a difference between a 23" low gear and 25" low gear on different bikes. I can tell a difference in 4-5" steps in that range. Also pointing out again, it's a 400' climb at the end of my ride to get home, and the grade his 14% in 4 spots.

Re: [RBW] Can you feel a 1.3 gear inch difference going uphill?

2017-08-31 Thread Patrick Moore
Not ~1 gear inch, but I can certainly feel 3 gear inches on level ground, and in fact have a gear series on the Matthews of single tooth jumps from #1 (smallest, 14 t to #7, 20 t, and which in the middle goes 70-67-63-60. 67 and 63 cruising gears (pavement and flat sandy dirt) in the very middly

[RBW] Can you feel a 1.3 gear inch difference going uphill?

2017-08-31 Thread Jay Connolly
Such a great question. I like to be able to go ANYWHERE on my bikes, but I don't always want to run a triple or lose high-end gears. 19 fest inches gets me up anything I'll tackle. Would I settle for 20.3? On anything other than a touring bike, yes. Would I feel the difference? On a long,

Re: [RBW] Can you feel a 1.3 gear inch difference going uphill?

2017-08-31 Thread Reed Kennedy
Depends on where you're coming from! If you've got a stump-pullingly low 19 inch low gear (say a triple in the front with a 24 tooth small chainring and a 34 tooth big cog on your cassette) then that's a 7% difference. You could probably feel that, and might even want it sometimes. If you've got

[RBW] Can you feel a 1.3 gear inch difference going uphill?

2017-08-31 Thread lum gim fong
Possible, or is that considered so close you cannot really feel it? -- 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