Originally Posted by
caloso
I was skimming a copy of Velonews from earlier this year and Hincapie was talking about his Roubaix set up: 53-44 on the front, 12-25 on the back. Seems that would give you a really tight spread of ratios, but it's mostly flat.
I set up my first really good bike with 52/45 on the front and 13-17 on the back. It gave a very tight spread. And it wasn't flat in West Virginia. But it was cool to have big gears, and a small freewheel.
I was stupid.
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