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Location: Madison, WI
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My low gear on my Rohloff bike when I set it up for touring has a low gear of 16.5 gear inches. But, the high gear is only 86.5 gear inches which means I spin out on the long shallow downhills. But I do not want to give up the low gears that got me up the hill, so I willingly give up the abilty to go fast down the other side.
But for riding around home, I gear it up much higher because the most weight I am carrying then is a sack or two of groceries. It is easy to change a chainring to switch from one gear range to the other.