Originally Posted by FlippingHades
Thanks for the compliments! The bags, they are getting better all the time.
I just rode the Kogswell to work for the first time yesterday. Naturally, I was more nervous all day about it being locked on Market Street
. There are some other nice bikes that I see locked up on Market regularly. I even saw an ANT Major Taylor about 3 months ago.
The Nexus 8 does pretty well - I have it geared 44 x 21 (you can use Sheldon Brown's gear calculator to get the range with that), and 1st gear is a pretty good spinning gear - around 28 gear inches, I think.
Locking it on Market Street huh? From your pictures it looks like you lock it up well though. If I had that bike and it got vandalized or stolen I would cry for a week. The lack of decals may fool the less sophistacated, too.
Twenty eight gear inches sounds plenty low. I love that gear calculator. I use it when I fantasize about building up a Rohloff equipped bike.