Originally Posted by
Trevtassie
Coasting fast enough to need 110 inches on gravel would be fairly rare, on a regular touring bike I'd agree coasting sucks nearly as much as pushing, but on a gravel bike, if you had to choose between low end or high end, I'd pick low end. When I tour on gravel I've only used my Rohloff with a single speed front 14" to 73" and that seems enough. On the road I use an ATS speed drive, 14" to 122". Can pedal down nearly anything.
I’ve always had a good wide gear range on my mountain bikes (which is what I use for my “gravel” bike).
My current one has a 44/34/20 with an 11-36 10 speed cassette with a range of 110 to 15 (thought it was 14 but I was wrong). I use that range on every off-road tour I do. Sometimes, I do up to 30 mph on dirt and other times I’ve done as high 45 on pavement. Not all off-road touring occurs on dirt. It may not look it but this is a 25mph dirt road...for around 12 to 15 miles.
The pavement on the right (not the dirt) is a 45mph downhill.
And just to be clear, I use knobs.
Sometimes I’m not too bright
