bicycle gear calculator download program

[peanut]

if anyone can fathom how to use this please let me know .
http://www.machinehead-software.co.uk/bike/gears/gear_calculator.html

 

[kyuss]

I gave up on that machine head one. Do you really need all those graphs? Too much information IMO. I use the online ones instead, Rabbit for singlespeed and Sheldon for multi-speed.

 

[Davidc]

It seems to be trying to advise on gears needed to achieve some idealised cadence. Complication for its own sake.

I use the Sheldon Brown one (link in kyuss' post).

 

[Theseus]

Thanks for the Rabbit link ... damn, only 3 skid patches. Should I get a sprocket 1 size smaller or larger?

 

[peanut]

rubbish isn't it.
typical of over complicated techy stuff where the originator hasn't the technical ability to construct a simple user guide .
I still use my laminated Cycling Weekly gear table card issued free in a 1991 issue ...... crikey have I had it that long.?

where has all those years gone ? I want them back again

 

[User269]

Heh! Incredible innit? Just the sort of webpage I instantly exit from; if it doesn't draw me in and I can't see what I'm looking for, off I go!

I often use this calculator; http://www.whycycle.co.uk/gear_calculator/

 

[velocidad]

there's a good one on the kinetics site.

cheers,

velocidad.

 

[Davidc]

rubbish isn't it.
typical of over complicated techy stuff where the originator hasn't the technical ability to construct a simple user guide .
I still use my laminated Cycling Weekly gear table card issued free in a 1991 issue ...... crikey have I had it that long.?

where has all those years gone ? I want them back again

I don't have it any more, but there was a really good one given away with Regina freewheels in the 1970s. It had moving cardboard gear wheels (no chain!). You set the front and back teeth numbers and it gave the result in meters through a window in one of them. Conversion to inches and ratio was on the back.

Thats what I call a gear calculator! (Eventually fell apart though).

 

[Crackle]

Make your own in Excel chaps/chapesses. It's quite easy and you can include cadence as well if you want.