Originally Posted by
The Golden Boy
The amount of gears doesn't matter a whole lot. The 27 to 15 speed only matters as your steps between gears are smaller, not that your top end is faster.
Your rear end only has a 5 speed freewheel? That doesn't seem right- I think the Ascent would have come out in the 6-7 speed era.
IMO- a 1.25-1.75 tire would be preferable- and I don't think I'd want a tire on a commuter up at 120psi.
Yes, and that is what the original shiftier had marked on it as well. I think that personally even a 7-speed would be a welcomed change.
On my Seek I was running 116PSI and loved it. Nice and hard and nice and fast and could corner.
Originally Posted by
ThermionicScott
My taint hurts just thinking about riding a 120psi tire. On any bike.
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Digital_Cowboy, I take my Ascent over 30 MPH all the time, and that's on 1.75" tires with 40psi or less in them -- how fast do you need to go?
I can understand that for some that that would be "uncomfortable."
And I also understand/realize that for all intent and purposes that I'd be riding on the "balloon" equivalent of hard rubber/tubeless tires.
On my bikes that were stolen I was usually traveling at the slowest in the 15 - 20MPH range and at the fastest in the 20 - 25MPH range, sprinting up towards 30MPH, consistently, and would like to get back there. As right now it's more like the 10 - 15MPH range.
I also understand that probably part of the problem is that I don't yet have clipless pedals on this bike, yet. When I do I'll upgrade to clipless pedals it'll probably be to Eggbeaters.
But overall I'm not too displeased with this particular bike. Just have some tweaks to make to it. And again, yes, I know that they're not all going to necessarily be what someone else might do. But, isn't that part of the fun? Making our bikes
OUR bikes?!?
A short while ago I happened to notice that when I put the new brake levers on that I put them on upside down. Oh, well they still work and stop the bike.