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Old 02-20-07 | 08:25 PM
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mander
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From: Van BC
Originally Posted by iamarapgod
I'd like to learn more about the mathmatics of gearing. I just played around with cassette cogs on a 9 spd huub till I figured out what I wanted. The math part is probably pretty limited, but it's still very intresting. I never thought of the prime number thing before, or spreading the wear from skids with math. Thanks.
Read this. The overall result proven (that's the sentences labelled (1) and (2)) will be clear, even if the proof isn't, as long as you know how to reduce a fraction (wikipedia will help if you forget).

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=242123

Then go here and fool around for a while.

http://www.basementfreaks.com/members/karl/gearing/

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