Originally Posted by
Maelochs
I think Rydabent meant "Make sure it has an 8-speed cassette," and he assumed you would have a double or triple chin ring. (Just guessing.)
I don't know much about 'bent gearing, but I'd imagine a 46-30 crank set or something would be plenty fast on the flats and still give you climbing gears.
Also --- even with a single up front, you could run an 11-28 or 11-32 cassette. 42x32 would be pretty low.
If you can ride 8- and 10-percent grades ... i thought people weren't supposed to ride bents up hills? Eight or ten percent would almost have me walking my diamond-frame.
Most bents and trikes have mountain bike drive trains. My trike is a 24 speed, and I have never met a hill that I had to get off and walk. I have a 24 in front and a 34 in the rear for a low. My rear wheel will spin before I run out of leg strength.
Many times on some hills when I am on my trike, I am spinning away, and some young guy 1/4th my age is walking his DF bike up the hill. Yes 1/4th my age since Im 80.