Are you talking about multi-geared touring bikes or SS? If you're talking about multi-geared bikes, yeah, the obvious choice is to have the lowest gearing possible, along with as wide a range as possible. I wasn't talking about multi-gear setups—gearing choice isn't so personal when you always have between 10 and 30 gears at the ready.

If you're talking about single speed touring, I really doubt anyone in the touring forum is going to tell you to ride on 25 gear inches.



In any case, we have no idea where this fellow is going to be traveling through mountains or across plains. We don't know how far he wants to bike and we don't know how quickly he wants to go. We don't know what his load is going to weigh. We don't know his weight or his fitness level. We don't know if he's a spinner or a masher.

And even if we knew all of this stuff, our suggestions for gearing could be way off.