Originally Posted by
paulriccio
Thanks for the reply. After the new components, it is so much better. The hills were killing me. It has an old flywheel and I may see if I can upgrade to a 11-32 or 34 and do a cassette. Would take some research.
While I got you. I am in the Northeast USA and the roads SUCK. I have 700 x 23 and was looking for a bigger tire and lower pressure. If it fit I was looking at 32 and kind of make it a gravel type bike. I occasionally have some gravel roads.
NH and MA here.
I can't stand riding 23s. I'm fine on 25s, but that's as small as I go on the roads we deal with. You might be losing a lot of energy bouncing around the potholes.
I don't think drive train matters a lot for speed, but there's definitely a fun factor with a good one.