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Old 11-05-14 | 09:42 AM
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Bikes: 2008 Trek 7500, 1982 Schwinn Voyageur 11.8, 1982 Schwinn Voyageur 11.8 Chrome

Originally Posted by Road Fan
It's nearly impossible from those pics to say the gearing is a half-step plus granny or an alpine-plus granny, or what. If you will count out the teeth and publish that, I or someone can tell you if it follows either of those models. both of them have rather specific relationships between the gears and between the fronts and the backs, that try to give you even jumps as you shift your way up throughout the gears, and to eliminate wasted gears - if you have 2x5, you get 10 distinct gear ratios with no duplication, for example.
The free wheel has a ratio of 13/14/15/17/19/21. Crankset is 28/45/50.
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