Originally Posted by mander
Actually, I was trying to be polite there. You have asked a very stupid question, not because you want to know the answer but out of a desire to stir things up and attract attention to yourself. Bikeforums members have taken the time to give you many good answers, which you ignore. You are being willfuly stupid, and wasting everyone's time. This is borderline trolling.
Be a ****tard if you want Karsten, but don't act all hurt and surprised when someone calls you on it.
Actually, you were not trying to be polite. If any thing, you're trying to be forum defender, which is admirable, because this is a cool place, for the most part.
It's funny how you seem to have read my actions here and know so well what I'm attempting to do.
Of all the answers here, San Rensho and Yoshi gave a decent explanation why knowing this seemingly trivial data matters.
But since it we're on the subject of "knowning what someone else is thinking.."
Originally Posted by mander
1. If you want to gear up or down a certain amount, often adding or subtracting a teeth from your existing setup (the bonehead method) can have undesirable consequences. It may throw off skid patches, etc.
See, here you started the name calling. But anyway, skid patches.. really. More trivial BS. You skid, your tire goes bald. One spot, 3 spots, does it matter?
Originally Posted by mander
3. For different people to be able to meaningfully discuss gearing, a universalizable standard is needed. Gain ratios are a tiny bit better, but crank length makes so little difference that you can get along without it.
This was about the only helpful thing I've heard from your post.
Originally Posted by mander
4. Say you need a magic gear, and you want it to be well suited to your commute.
Magic gear? Is that something you use with your Jr. Magician bike seat?
Originally Posted by mander
5. Maybe you want a setup with all prime numbers, and you want it to be suited to your commute.
No, I prefer numbers of gears that are the square root of the amount of time I spent wasted on puking useless info onto the internet to impress people on how much I know. Are you serious that people want that kind of info? Then, seek help.
Originally Posted by mander
6. Maybe you want a setup with all odd numbers, and you want it to be suited to your commute. 7. Maybe you want a setup with all even numbers, and you want it to be suited to your commute.
That is some trivial BS. Trival. As usefull as seats with holes in them to correct ED.
Originally Posted by mander
I am bewildered that you do not seem to understand this.
Mander, honestly, I'm bewildered why you, who seems reasonably intelligent, is someone who has posted 3 times recently "in before the lock", and then turns to claim that this post is trolling and insutling to "BF members". If you're so true to correct posting, tell me why do you act like in such a way on other threads? And honestly, between you and I: who is the one with no fear about posting with his real name?
I find the gear inch thing comical, interesting, but it's use is limited, and is very trivial in most respect. But I did understand The Fixer's comments, so perhaps something was shoved into my apparently narrow mind.