Dublin ratios

75.6 gear inches, go on that calculator and you'll work out your skid patches and the whole shebang ;)

Thought I'd resurrect this thread and add my 2cents now that I've been riding fixed on the road for a couple of months.

My Lovely Langster is 42x16 - it's a really comfortable gear for riding gracefully round town imo - it works out about 70.

That said I've been thinking I would like the option of a spinnier fixed gear on the other side of the hub instead of the 16t freewheel.

I'm thinking a fixed/fixed hub would suit me better than the fixed/free but I don't have the cash to be sorting that just yet!

For now though, I wonder if there's any chance one of you might have a 17 or even 18 cog I could beg, borrow or buy?

Also looking for a 14 or 15 for the (rental) track bike (Dolan)
(- 49x16 is fine for training but not enough for racing I recently learned!)

Slainte daoine!

i ride 49 x 15 all time. I cant understand why people ride such easy gears

I thought you just multiply your gearing by two?

i ride 49 x 15 all time. I cant understand why people ride such easy gears

I have knee problems anyway, but its a known fact that you just dont get the same agility with a higher gear, riding in the city isnt a race, no need to go higher imho.

Caz as a temporary solution you could take the freewheel off and loctite and rotafix a cog onto the ss threads, I have a spare 18 that you could borrow but you would have to use it on the fixed side since it is a miche adapted cog.
I would give you my 15 but I do actually plan to take some saturday morning off work and go racing.

I'm on the fence really, when I got my first fixed a few years ago it was a Paddy Wagon straight off the shelf, I knew nothing about chain wheel sizes or cogs really, it was a 42-16, I rode it with a front break. I think they're fine for learning or around town, mind you, slightly siding with Scary here- I rode my Beater conversion earlier, I hadn't been on it for a while and I'd been too lazy to change it over from 42, fuckin will now though, rode home on the N11 from stillorgan to town, going downhill brakeless on this was scary, felt quite out of control with no breaks to be honest, the spare 46 ring i have's going on tomorrow

44x18

That's kinda low isn't it Stevie? How do you find it when
commuting?

He pretty much works and lives in town...So fine id say haha.

Ah I see, that would help!
I'm thinking of getting something along those lines for tricks

i ride 49 x 15 all time. I cant understand why people ride such easy gears

I will happily train on 49x16 at the track (hopefully racing on 49x15) but there's something so nice about going back to 42x16 for the journey home. It doesn't feel slow and is plenty fast enough for the road. But then I've always liked to spin, and by good fortune it turns out to be good for training and agility too - so a win win situation I'd say. You don't know what you're missing imho!

Caz as a temporary solution you could take the freewheel off and loctite and rotafix a cog onto the ss threads, I have a spare 18 that you could borrow but you would have to use it on the fixed side since it is a miche adapted cog.
I would give you my 15 but I do actually plan to take some saturday morning off work and go racing.

Stein - nice one thanks - It'd be great to borrow your 18 for a bit to try it out to see is it too silly or serious fun!

BTW - On a Saturday you'd be doing accreditation more so than racing - racing is Wednesday. But this Saturday is an international (apparently 8 girls from Holland coming over) and - get this - includes tandem racing.

Maybe you all know what this is - I was fucking amazed to find out today - seriously - fixed gear tandem bike races!!! Can't wait to see that!

I'm on the fence really, when I got my first fixed a few years ago it was a Paddy Wagon straight off the shelf, I knew nothing about chain wheel sizes or cogs really, it was a 42-16, I rode it with a front break. I think they're fine for learning or around town, mind you, slightly siding with Scary here- I rode my Beater conversion earlier, I hadn't been on it for a while and I'd been too lazy to change it over from 42, fuckin will now though, rode home on the N11 from stillorgan to town, going downhill brakeless on this was scary, felt quite out of control with no breaks to be honest, the spare 46 ring i have's going on tomorrow

Maybe just stick a front brake on instead and have some fun going downhill? If you change the ring will you then have 2 brakeless fixed wheel bikes ... with the same gearing on each?

why do people keep telling me i don't know what i'm missing? Do they really think i've only ever ridin 49x15?

Is that a rhetorical question? Also, my crystal ball doesn't seem to capture your gear ratio history...did I miss something?

That's kinda low isn't it Stevie? How do you find it when
commuting?

Low gear is better for your knee's in the long run. Spinny gears keep the muscles supple and you wouldn't start a car in fifth gear! Would you? ; )

you wouldn't start a car in fifth gear! Would you? ; )

I'd get too frustrated with the slow speed, I started on 46/17 then went to 51/17, much better!

yeah. You don't start a car in 5th gear but you also don't drive around in 1st all the time. Also, if people don't know my gearing history maybe they shouldn't tell me that0i don't know what i'm missing.

You havent ever seen tandem track racing?!
You havent lived!
I know racing is on wednesdays but I have to get accredited first, hence taking a Sat off.

i ride 49 x 15 all time. I cant understand why people ride such easy gears

...42x16... I've always liked to spin, and by good fortune it turns out to be good for training and agility too - so a win win situation I'd say. *You don't know what you're missing imho!*

... if people don't know my gearing history maybe they shouldn't tell me that0i don't know what i'm missing.

Sorry if that came across to you as some sort of personal attack @scary - I wasn't intending to ruffle your feathers.

That said, I opine that if one doesn't get, or have any interest in, the whole spinning thing then one won't get what I'm on about so imho one couldn't possibly know what one would be missing - simple - no gearing history needed!

@stein - I can't wait to see the tandem races - for the first time ever! Then I will really have lived!

yeah. You don't start a car in 5th gear but you also don't drive around in 1st all the time. Also, if people don't know my gearing history maybe they shouldn't tell me that0i don't know what i'm missing.

It's about the journey not the destination. Plus it's an individual thing, I used to ride a 52/17 and I much prefer the 44/18. I've done long distance on it too

Im missing everything this weekend.. Damn oxegen;P