Originally Posted by
sloar
.......living in central Indiana which is flat 3x7 gears work fine.
Nice looking bike. I'm in extreme West Central Illinois where the prairie ends and the roling hills of the Mississippi River Valley begin. Depending on which road I take out of town I can have nice flat terrain with only small hills or nothing but up and down for miles and while some of the hills while maybe not long by some standards they're pretty steep. Somebody a few decades younger could manage them with a 3X7 or a good 1X or 2X but not me, not now anyway. I used to do it on my '97 Trek 820 rigid MTB with the stock 3X7 Altus group but that was back in 1997, these days I need more gears LOL. I still have the old 820, it's full 3X9 Deore XT now though, always was a sucker for puttin' lipstick on pigs LOL. I need to get it out and rinse the dust and cobwebs off it, it's been a few years since I've ridden it, I think I'll go do that right now.
