You are reading a single comment by @wheels and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@wheels
I find 48 x 16 too spinny :( anything below 48 x 14 on 700c (90") seems spinny.
My acceleration off the line (lights and so on) is not the fastest (but not bad) and I need to be steaming along to get up steep hills :( but boy can you get up some dreadful speed on 48 x 14 and a decent pair of legs on London's flat streets ! :)
All this talk of what is and is not right for various terrain doesn't really take all the factors in, like leg length, strength, short twitch to long twitch muscle ratio (we all differ by a fair amount - certainly more than a cog or two) even crank length (leverage). Building and riding a very light machine will also impact on acceleration, stopping and so on.