What gear do you leave the bike in when you get home?

[Drago]

It does sound like he'd screw it up

We better torque to him about it.

 

[Lozz360]

But does it make any more sense for a hub gear than a derailleur?

No. It's what we believed back in the day. On a Sturmey Archer three speed gear system, if you left the bike in third gear the cable was slack and no tension on the springs. So you saved the cable from stretching, which was bollox of course. We now know that metal cables don't stretch and springs are not troubled by being under tension.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Gear 11

 

[Tim Hall]

I like to "ease springs" ie let the tension out of the system .Trouble is this puts you in a cross chain position for setting off again.

The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.

(Nothing to do with the question, you just reminded me of one of my favourite poems)

 

[Sittingduck]

Big dog/ 3rd largest sprocket

 

[Low Gear Guy]

I usually leave the bike in a low gear. It's an easy decision to make when you live on a 10% gradient road.

 

[oldwheels]

The instructions for my Bike Friday specify smallest ring at front and back to give enough slack for folding. When you unfold the chain then comes off front ring so a glove is always at hand when unfolding.

 

[tommaguzzi]

Whatever it's in.
If ive climbed steep the hill to my house then it's in the lowest or if ive decended then what ever gear it was in before i stopped spinning.

 

[slowmotion]

^^^^^

 

[gaijintendo]

I sometimes leave it in the highest gear, my logic being it will cause the smallest inconvenience for the person who steals it. I fantasise that they might embarrass themselves mildly infront of an onlooker.

 

[Svendo]

39-17 if I think about it, as that's my usual standing start gear. Otherwise whatever I arrived in.

 

[simongt]

Lightweight. Should be using 56/11

Lightweight - ?
Apparently the late Beryl Burton would use a 62/11 for some of her races / timed events.

 

[Saluki]

Slippers and pyjamas generally. He says that they are comfy but promises never to leave the house in them