Originally Posted by
350htrr
Good for you, I hope you are doing it on a single speed, because anything with gears is suspect as to how much "assistance" that mechanical torque multiplying system is "helping" you accomplish the tour in hilly areas... You do know that doing any tour on anything but a single speed is a fail don't you?
No, I'll have 27 speeds. "Mechanical torque multiplying" as you call it occurs on all bikes, no matter how many gears they have. Comes from the crank arms and gear combination(s). For the Alps, fully loaded, the more gears the better, IMHO. And one wouldn't describe my route as "hilly." "Mountainous" is a better description. The challenge of conquering a mountain pass will not be met with a motor. Kind of like climbing Everest on the back of a Sherpa.