Who's still riding their orig 10-12 sp drivetrain?
 

Maybe you're not willing to re-space the frame to accept a larger cluster? Or you don't want to re-dish a wheel or upgrade that crankset with odd threads, switch the chain, etc...? Sheldon's online gear calculator says my old Raleigh has a range 33-100 gear inches with a 52-42 and a 5 speed 14-34 in the rear. I'm pretty content with this on a casual 1-30 mile ride, but I don't see anyone else out there running the old stuff?

Seven speeds are plenty, six will do.

I roll 3x6 speed on my Dawes Galaxy, just because I have a freewheel hub and a triple.

Adding more cogs isn't going to change the range, it is just going to give you smaller gaps between gears. The range is limited by things like the deraileur.
Edit: I forgot to answer the question. I am running an ultra 6 on my everyday ride.

My touring bike that I use around town is still six speed, but if I ever actually tour with it, I will probably upgrade to a cassette hub and 700c wheels for ease of repair/replacement parts. For the time being it's more than enough.

running a 7 speed cassette with a 6 speed derailer on a miyata ninety. dont worry youre not the only one out there

3X5

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I've got an old Schwinn Traveler with an Exage 6 sp. I was thinking of swapping some Deore 6 sp parts and converting it to a triple. After 50 those hills just keep getting steeper.

Tim

2 x 5 on my commuter and my wife's grocery getter. For short trips, they are fine. On longer rides I do like having all those in-between gears.

'61 Schwinn Paramount: 7-speed Sachs FW (only because it has Phil hubs that I can't respace to 5)
'70 Schwinn Paramount: 5-speed Suntour FW
'81 Trek 610: 6-speed Shimano 600 UG FW
'84 Raleigh USA Competition: 6-speed Suntour FW w/Accushift levers
'84 Raleigh USA Super Course: Shimano 105 freehub w/7-speed UG cassette
'84 Raleigh USA Alyeska: 6-speed Regina Oro FW (only one of the lot with a triple crankset)
'85 Raleigh USA Super Course: Suntour Ultra 6 FW (incorrect for the 126 spacing on this bike)
'91/2 Guerciotti EL: 8-speed Shimano 600 "tri-color"-era HG cassette

-Kurt

SunTour PowerFlo 6-speed (30/24/20/17/15/13) freewheel times three (24/38/48 chainrings) with SunTour Bar Con Accushift. That's 21.4 to 98.8 gear inches. I could make use of some more options on the top end.

The Gitane Tour de France and Peugeot UO-8 are 2x5, the Magneet is 3x5 (long haul tourer), Trek 460 and Rossin are 2x6 (the former is Helicomatic). Otherwise, I'm messing with cassettes and 130mm rear spacing, nothing over 9 speed however.

All of my vintage bikes are running the original gear or period correct gear.
If I want modern I can ride my new Sherpa.

Isn't the answer, "All of us! Some less, others more."

All my and my wife's road bikes are 6 or 7 speed, freewheel, friction, including my daily commuter. All have original drivetrains except my commuter, which I got as a frame.

2 x 6 on my old pani, my peugeot, and the other pani i purchases a few days.

I actually don't like having so many gears... I don't use most of them.

Gorgeous!!

I have 2x5 on the Bottecchia and the Peugeot and 3x6 on the Panasonic. Just my 0.02, if you are running the typical 14-28 freewheel then 5 is enough for reasonable spacing. If you go to something wider like a 14-32 or 14-34 then you would really appreciate 7 speeds.

Two Schwinns, one Sprint and one Sportabout, both 5x2.

I am. Camapagnolo SR 6-spd freewheel with 2 rings up front.

My Univega is 3x5, and I rarely even use all of those. My Nishiki came with 6 in the back, and I replaced it with a 5 speed. I'm going to do the same on my Miyata soon. I just haven't seen a reason to have more. My Bertoni has 10 cogs in the rear and it's completely overkill for me. Most of the time none of the gears feel quite right anyway.

I still ride to work on a 1970 Sekine with 2x5. All my other bikes I've swapped to a 7 speed freewheel or more modern drive train. Funny thing is I enjoy the 2x5 as it is less hassle as you don't change gear as much!

Most of my bikes have six or seven cogs in the back...which is two or three more than I will ever use.

I take it you live in Houston? That's all I needed when I lived in New Orleans too. Now that I live in Colorado I'll take all the gears I can get. And my clipless pedals too :D

My '81 Puch Pathfinder with 5x2. 52/40 and 14/32. I just got a 38 to replace the 40 to make the ratio spacing more even. Plenty o' gears and range for me!