Originally Posted by
legstwelve
Do you have a road/mtb bike? If so you could ride around on that in a select gear, find out what is most comfortable for you and then get your fixed combo to get the same gear inches.
i.e. a 44/14 setup is 82.6 gear inches, that is equivalent to riding a road bike in a 53/17 configuration.
Use Sheldon's Calculator to work this out.
I personally prefer to push about 70 gear inches but that's because I'm a spinner not a masher.
It's a 89' Bianchi Sport SX road bike.
I was also thinking of doing what you suggested as well. From reading the forums, people seem
to play around with their gearing and switch from 14 to 18 to 16 etc etc. to figure out what is
most comfortable. I guess I'll be doing that as well for now since I've heard 44/14 is okay for
flat areas of riding. I can't seem to find out if the cog is a 1/8'' or a 3/32''. PM'd a few people
and seems like no one likes to answer PM's haha.
Also, when you refer to "spinner not a masher", I'm assuming by that you like to just cruise and
not like to go all out and fully sprint constantly, correct? If that's the case, I'm more of a spinner as well.