Originally Posted by
iain.dalton
It looks like everyone has their own favorite gearing. I'm not yet sure what I'll choose, but I would guess that Surly's LHT complete comes with bad gears? 48-36-26, and 11-34, make for a high gear of 118 inches. That sounds pretty high, so it's going to leave unacceptably large gaps between gears, right?
Michel, I'm curious as to why you didn't insert a 13t cog and make up for it somewhere on the other end of the cassette, such as removing the 19. Other than that one cog, it looks like you have all close differences on one end and larger differences on the other.
While the 48x11 combo is unnecessarily high for touring I wouldn't call the LHT stock gearing really bad, either just swap out the 48 and the 26 for a 44 and a 24 or better still go with a 12-34 or a 13-34.