View Poll Results: How many gear inches on your fixies/ss
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55-60
4
1.32%
60-65
19
6.27%
65-70
55
18.15%
70-75
123
40.59%
75-80
58
19.14%
80-85
39
12.87%
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What gear inch do you use?
03-03-06, 02:30 PM
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What gear inch do you use?
I'm trying to find out what the average fixie uses. I like to spin 90-95 rpm on my roadie and we have alot of long hills out here in desert. I think I read that 70 gear inches is the norm?
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03-03-06, 02:34 PM
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there was a thread a few days ago about this, scroll back a couple pages and you should find a poll with a good distribution.
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70 for me. Great for going up VT. hills, sorta slow coming down 
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85.7 -- I rounded down for the survey.
Would be higher but I live in one of those "foothills" cities where there's a sizeable elevation change just to go to the grocery store/class.
Would be higher but I live in one of those "foothills" cities where there's a sizeable elevation change just to go to the grocery store/class.
03-03-06, 04:38 PM
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If you know how fast you expect to be going, what your desired cadence is, and your tire size, punch 'em in here to get a whole spreadsheet of values.
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I go just a teeny bit higher than my favorite roadie gear. If you are going to ride your fixie like you ride your road bike, keep in mind that a lot of the riders on this forum don't ride that way. Bombing around city streets is a lot different and has different gearing needs than hammering a 20-30 mile stretch of rural farm roads.
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49x19=67.4 gear inches.
Works fine for me, I was running 19x44 on the other bike and it was fine as a beginner gear but not so great going down hills, spins too fast. Great for skids though. Either way it can be really fun to roll a small gear and have that fast acceleration, but I think I'm also rather slowly get used to higher gears and have my legs get stronger.
Works fine for me, I was running 19x44 on the other bike and it was fine as a beginner gear but not so great going down hills, spins too fast. Great for skids though. Either way it can be really fun to roll a small gear and have that fast acceleration, but I think I'm also rather slowly get used to higher gears and have my legs get stronger.
03-07-07, 01:21 AM
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I ride a 47x15 which gives me roughly 83 gear inches. Savannah(a very flat city) is my home, but i've had no problem for the past 3 weeks here in atlanta which is quite hilly.
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69. The only time it gets annoying is on the long flat stretches when I get passed by a roadie. I may gear up at some point but I really like not having to get out of the saddle to climb.
