What's your favourite gear ratio?

chris crash [quote]BringMeMyFix You lot running high 70s/low 80s all year round in London traffic are mental. Rubbish acceleration at low speeds, and I'd hate to see the state of your knee cartilages a few years down the road.

Whatever floats your boat I suppose :-/

but all of this depends so much on the cyclist, thats why its so hard for one person to give a person they have never met advice on gears, its kind of like at what angle do you want you saddel, or where exactly is comfortable for you to put your brake or NoBrake lever.[/quote]

I'm not trying to be prescriptive. They're just observations based on i) seeing big gear types labouring away from lights, and getting caught in some tricky spots in traffic ii) anecdotal evidence from 100s of cyclists either in person or in print - it's worth being aware of widespread phenomena, init.

But as far as riding position goes, I'm with you all the way.