What's your favourite gear ratio?

47x17 would put you closer to 75 GI. it's what i run, currently.

well, not if you use 23 x 700c wheels :

http://software.bareknucklebrigade.com/rabbit.applet.html

48:19 might move up to 48:18

42:15 at present

Moving to 48:17 not alot different

Manageable enough for an old man on the South Downs in Hampshire

52:18 ss.
I think its ok for me, haven't had a chance to really try it out yet.

i ride 48tx18t. It's pretty good, but sometimes a little stiff for pulling away/ hills when I'm tired, or hungover (so most of the time). I'm well boney, without much leg muscle and was wondering which way I should go with the back to make it a touch easier?

try a 47t on the front, makes it that little bit easier without going to far into 48:19 territory, which is too spinny for me.

49 x 19 quite nice really.

try a 47t on the front, makes it that little bit easier without going to far into 48:19 territory, which is too spinny for me.

cheers man, but I'm a tool. I meant 46t x 18t. Guess that means it should be piss easy already, huh?

I gotta start working out. And learn to count.

I just moved up to 48:19 (68ish) from 39:16(65ish) more comfatable on the flat and down hills still ok going up hill. Just made in up swains lane ok. Lots of skid patches. Good acceleration.

47T X 18T

find it damn slow . . .
and dont know how that thing works out with the 60-70

Hmmm. little worried.

I used to ride 42/15 fixed which i found ok with my heavy lump of a Kalkhoff

Now i'm riding a 49 16T freewheel (while I waited for delivery of dura ace)

Now i'm ready to stick the fixed on which will have me at 49/15 fixed.

From the previous discussion this puts me pretty high (mid eighties) and i'm in hilly Nottingham. I find the hills gut busting but my normal commute is on the flat. I found I was spinning pretty quick keeping up with traffic at 49/16... is my technieque off?

Got a nasty pain in my lower back but not sure if it's bike related, mmmm might consider getting a 17 or something for the flipside and riding that for the winter. Plan?

42:18 at the moment.
its that or 52:18 until i have pennies for a crankset, and the hills round here would have me walking too often

(takes mtfu pill)

48 x18 good compromise

48x18 i find it very good to go around London

47x16

65x13.. anything else is for your Nan or your newborn.

48x18

Am I Hippy's Nan? I do hope not.

It'd be hard to post if you were..

Phew!

46 x 16 Fixed
53 x 16 SS

This isn't very interesting.

48 x 18. Sucks cycling up Fitzjohns Rd every night.

This isn't very interesting.

Correct. But it IS a(nother) thread on gear ratios.

Threads about ratios are fine by me. WTF!? If you're bored by this subject (clue is in the thread title) don't fucking click on it.

I ride: 48x18 27" (soon to change this to 20t); 44/16 700 28c; 47x19 700 23c. The last one is easily the best fun, super spinny.

To the thread-dredger: Cheltenham aint exactly Bath, hills wise, so you could go up a bit, but don't be tempted to get a super hard gear, you may damage your knees. Also, spinny gears are much easier to skid/hop (if your'e using a fixed wheel).

As people always say on here, spin to win. With a 42 chainring I would get thee a 15t probably - much cheaper to switch rear cog than chainring. Don't be tempted to jump a huge difference, is my advice.

44/16 ss, just tested it out over crystal palace last night, works just fine.

Going too go 44/17 fixed on Murtle's advice