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@Drokk
While single speed is very fun and all I am missing gears a bit, as my need for my bike have changed a bit (need to carry more shit with me). After playing around on the gf's Pashley Princess Sturmey 5 speeds, I think I'd love to get one of these fitted to my Plug Grinder.
I'm still a novice when it comes to anything technical with bikes so forgive me if any of the following questions are dumb!
Firstly I used the Sheldon Brown gear calculator to work out what gear inches I could get, and came up with the combination of 42/22 (currently 42/16) would give me the following:
82.5, 68.7, 51.5, 38.7, 32.2
Does that sound like a decent spread?
Currently I'm running 42/16, and if i go for 42/22 this would mean needing to lengthen the chain by a bit, right?
Also do I need to worry about the sprockets position in relation to the chainring, or will this be the same width on the Sturmey compared to my current hub?
Sturmey list the Over Locknut Dimension as 113.7, I'm guessing that i will just need a few washers to bump that figure up to 120mm to fill the space on my frame...
Lastly I should be able to get it built up into a wheel just using my existing 700c rim right?
Again sorry if these questions seem really stupid, but I'm learning as I go!
Cheers.