Originally Posted by
ben_g
denver to portland, thoughts?
I remember hearing about 1940's tour bikes having a flip flop hub with two freewheels - a regular gear ration and a gear ratio for climbing, has anybody heard of that?
The Rivendell Quickbeam is a sort of singlespeed tourer, however, I've set mine up with 4 gears using an 16x18 double freewheel, a 22 freeweel on the other side and 40 and 32 chainrings. I have to change gears by hand and tension the chain by moving the back wheel
40 x 16
40 x 18
32 x 18
32 x 22