Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
My lowest gear on the Vivente tourer is 30 front 34 rear. But I've only ever used it at Mt Dandenong, about 15km from where I live, which has 2 roads with 28-30% grades 
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Whats your chainring size/s ?
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gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
Who cares? Just go and ride your bike
DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
- Location
- Littleborough
I am the only one that has no idea how many teeth on either the front sprockets or rear cassette.
I just get on and push the peddles until I get to the speed I want, and if i get to a hill I peddle harder.
Perhaps I should count them so next time I am struggling up a hill I will know how many teeth I am actually struggling on.
I just get on and push the peddles until I get to the speed I want, and if i get to a hill I peddle harder.
Perhaps I should count them so next time I am struggling up a hill I will know how many teeth I am actually struggling on.
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
I know that 27" is nominally 630, however people also refer to 622 tyres as 27" (being almost exactly 27" on mid-width 32-622 tyres) & there's also the re-invented 650b (584 or 27.5er in MTB speak) standard which is referred to as 27" in some parts. Keeping to ISO sizes simply illuminates confusion.
sackville d
Veteran
- Location
- Todmorden
On DA 7700 cranks I have TA chainrings 51/38 and 12/25 at the back.I like to think of it as semi semi compact.My hack has 53/39 and 11/23 and there is a compact lurking about but opportunity to get much use from it has been thin on the ground tho use of one has been a bit of an eyeopener
I must be just very easily pleased.
I must be just very easily pleased.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Sounds like a perfect gear for pootling with my kids, my subway has a triple with a large range on the back and if i ride anything more than the granny ring and a 30 on the back my 6 year old cant "win" the racejust how fast would you need to spin on the flat just to stay upright!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I have 50/39/28 on the front and 11 to 28 on the back. That's stretching the capacity of the Shimano 105 mech. but it seems to work OK. It isn't at all "hard" but it just about gets me up hills without walking.
on the road
Über Member
I ride a 53/39 on the front and 11-25 on the back, 39/25 is good enough to get me up most steep hills if slowly.
Sittingduck
Legendary Member
- Location
- Somewhere flat
34-50, 39-52 & 30-39-50... what's your point??
uclown2002
Guru
- Location
- Harrogate
That suggests there are some steep hills you can't get up?
Stonechat
Guru
- Location
- Staines, Middlesex
Likewise I am on original that cam with the bike
48-38-28
And 8 gears from 30 to 11 on the back
48-38-28
And 8 gears from 30 to 11 on the back
on the road
Über Member
[re-write]39/25 is good enough to get me up all the steep hills that I've come across if slowly[/re-write]
goody
Veteran
- Location
- Carshalton
I tried Bushcombe Lane last Sunday, I was visiting the brother in law in Prestbury. Probably not best to try after two pints and no warm up but had to get off twice and walk, the steepest bits are over 20% and on one of the bends approx 30%. I've got 34-50 and 11-25. Now I've seen it I think I could probably do it on a good day. I can see why he had a triple on his last bike it's pretty hilly down there went out for a ride on Monday and climbed 10,005 feet.
mrBishboshed
Active Member
- Location
- Coggeshall Essex
Loving my compact with 28-12 rear cassette. Just right for someone new to road bikes wanting to build some fitness. And I've not had to walk up any of our puny hills in deepest darkest Essex. (Well not yet.)
