Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
We don't need even spaced gears, we don't need any gears (well maybe at least one). We want the "right" gear most all the time though. Having gears in steps that mimic what our bodies like is the goal. Lot's of opinion and, likely research, suggests that 10 to 15% of ratio change between gears works well for many.
But you do live in the USA where it's your right to have any gearing spacings that you like. Andy
That gave me a bit of a chuckle this morning.
up north here too, we are allowed to use whatever cassette we like, and as a bonus, if we don’t know how to shift and fall off our bike and scrape our knee, when we go to emerg it’s free!
Win win ain’t it?
hey joe, look up Sheldon gear calculator, put in your bikes info and in the resulting chart will be the gear inches value of each gear, and beside each gear it will show the percentage jump between each gear.
et voila you’ll get a % number for what you have. Try diff cassettes and see the differences.