Which rear casette

[Pinkie]

 

11-21

 

Ouch. You kidding me or what?

 

[GIRR]

12-25

 

You then don't have to change down off the big chain ring when racing.

[buckstopper]

11-21 for racing if you can handle climbing in the 21. The 18 tooth which you don't get on the other clusters makes a difference in the drags.

12-23 for training - again the 18

But then I'll also use a 12-27 if I'm out of shape or riding Beeg hills

I voted for the 11-23

[Christie]

11-23 works for me. Only place I've ridden so far where I wanted a 25 was Robber's pass - steep switchbacks with rough, bouncy road surface.

 

gearing is a personal thing, high cadence worked for LA, where Ulrigh preferred heavier gears. If Ulrich had Bruneel's doctor, we lots of people would be singing the praises of heavy gears now! Ride what comes natural for you. 

[turtlek]

Guys grow a pair its either 11-23 or single speed everyone needs to HTFU!!!!!

[fandacious]

I think i'm gonna go with the 12-25. That way I can spend more time in big ring. And when the attack comes @ the top of the hill, i dont still need to shift into big ring..

[Canaris]

12-23 for training (on the Eddy merckx corsa)

11-25 for having fun (on the Kona)

10 speed campy

[Guest Big H]

11-27 on the road tandem and 12-32 on the MTB tandem.

[Pocketbikes]

 

Reminds me of the time I forgot to change my cassette and tried to keep up with epoh twice around Suikerbosrand on a 11-23 .

 

 

Now I know why I struggled . Never mind doing it twice, I struggled on the first hill!

12-23 is all I got.

 

Can one buy loose gears?

 

[TitusTi]

On my road training bike I have 1 gear a 48-18, it's a bit *** on the flats (alot of spinning) but it makes up for it on the climbs where it is super ***! Nice thing is if you wanna ride faster uphill, pedal harder. 

[Kobie]

You can get loose gears, but the problem is that usually your bigger gears are clustered in groups of 2 or 3, which means that you must take out one of the smaller gears, that you don't want to do either. I've tried to do this with my 12-23 DA group for the Graskop and Jock races, but it did not feel right, so I used my son's 11-25 Ultegra group. Perfect if you have very steep climbs, but also long stretches of flats.

[javadude]

 

On my road training bike I have 1 gear a 48-18' date=' it's a bit *** on the flats (alot of spinning) but it makes up for it on the climbs where it is super ***! Nice thing is if you wanna ride faster uphill, pedal harder. 

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Fixed gear or freewheel?

 

[TitusTi]

I don't do very stretches with the fixie, it make syou lazy and creates dead spots in your pedalling action.

But the gearing is the same fixie and freewheel.

 

[javadude]

Sounds good, want to convert my old steel frame to singlespeed. Will try import a Surly flip flop hub to fit a road frame. Is your bike a track frame or converted road frame?

[2 X 2]

You don't have my option, so I can't vote.

 

11-34 on the Mtb and Tandem.  Why?  Because I want to