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I think I have 32x17 on the Inbred at the moment. I dropped the chainring from 34 or 36 or something. I think it's probably comfortable 20kph cruising to the shops but kinda sucks trying to do normal road pace.
Kona has 32x16 and a bashring. I wonder if I could run two cogs quite close use the sliding dropouts to take up the slack? Would prefer not to add another chainring but then not sure how much bigger gear I could run.
This thing on the RHS
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Yeah where I am is pretty flat and found the spin to the hills on the 29+ soul destroying, hence the set up. I still get the simplicity of the singlespeed, just means I get to where I want to ride a bit quicker so have more time to enjoy the fun bit.
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Like @velosaurus I've run dinglespeed and found it to be decent. I went for 36/34 in the front and 16/18 in the back. Chainrings were on a road crank and sprockets on a cassette hub, spaced to match (46/41mm chainline). No issues with disc brake position. (This was on a pompetamine)
velosaurus
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I use a dinglespeed in the Chilterns & Swinley because of the (to me) too spinney to get there and too tall on the hills. I run 2 chainrings 36 & 32 on the front and two cogs 20 & 16 on the rear carrier. Gives me 36/16 to ride into the hills and 32/20 in the hills. Same number of teeth overall on both set ups so same chain length & no need to change chain or adjust drop outs. 29er of course...
As long as total number teeth add up to the same on both front and rear combos chain length about the same