Thread: Gearing question: sprocket/chainring/cog size?
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Old 01-10-12, 02:25 PM
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Or more simply its like moving the fulcrum under a lever..
Think of a teeter-totter is a 1:1 gear.

Catapult flings stuff far because the leverage advantage is there.
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