multimodal commuter
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Redundancy is annoying when looking at the numbers on the screen, but when I'm actually riding the bike I pay no attention to it at all.
My suggestion would be to put the bike together with the best setup that can be achieved with parts on hand, and give it a try. It may not be perfect, but you'll get a much better idea of your needs than you can get in the abstract. If you don't have a gear low enough for the hills, you will be forced to go up them faster than you like, but it probably won't kill you; if you think the end is near, get off and walk. I mean, if it came to it, you could ride 200 km on a fixed gear (trust me!).
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