SSMTBs

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Lucerne

I'm hoping to try out SS trail riding at Haldon Forest over Christmas:

https://www.moredirt.com/trail/South-West/Challenge-Trail---Haldon-Forest/1335/

and have all the bits together to build up 2 bikes for me and son- one 29er and other 26", both steel hard tails with solid forks.

Question: what would be suitable novice MTB gear ratios for Devon hilly terrain? (we're both daily road cyclists). I was thinking 32/16 but some of the bikes on here appear to have smaller chainrings?

I have 16t sprockets for both but yet to get the chainrings.

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BareNecessities in reply to @Lucerne

Easy answer - experiment

Haldon Forest is pretty steep in places, so I certainly couldn't manage 32x16 around there; definitely not on a 29er . You might weigh 60kg and be an XC machine though :-)

Maybe start around 50gi and see what works for you.

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