View Poll Results: Smallest climbing gear on your roadie (no triples!)
42x25
14
3.70%
39x27
72
19.05%
39x25
109
28.84%
39x23
42
11.11%
36x27
17
4.50%
36x25
13
3.44%
36x23
11
2.91%
34x25
75
19.84%
34x23
21
5.56%
34x21
4
1.06%
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What is your lowest climbing gear (doubles only)?
10-24-08, 02:09 PM
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FSA makes chainrings in 34, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46, 48 in 110BCD
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Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
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Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
https://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/arti...ger-photos.htm
10-24-08, 02:45 PM
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What, people had larger guads 1 year ago? 
I know that's not what you're referring to, but I just had to play along. I should be more observant on the OP dates since people are digging up posts from many years ago!
I know that's not what you're referring to, but I just had to play along.
I should be more observant on the OP dates since people are digging up posts from many years ago!
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10-24-08, 03:20 PM
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This poll doesn't mean much w/o stating what you are climbing......... 22-34
10-24-08, 03:28 PM
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10-24-08, 03:51 PM
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and you already replied on the first page... 
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10-24-08, 03:58 PM
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10-24-08, 04:11 PM
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small and voluptuous?
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Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
https://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/arti...ger-photos.htm
Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
https://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/arti...ger-photos.htm
10-24-08, 04:36 PM
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I may as well add mine... I'll climb pretty much anything on a 39x26, although I cheated and lowered it a bit to 38x28 for the end of Everest Challenge.
10-24-08, 05:27 PM
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Yeah, but I'm pretty sure you and WaterRockets are actually banished to the racing forum, so us weenies can develop self loathing on our own. It's not really cycling zen when you have evidence of inferiority.
10-24-08, 07:03 PM
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Lowest gear I own: 39Tx26T.
Lowest gear I use: 39Tx23T.
Lowest gear I use: 39Tx23T.
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10-24-08, 07:04 PM
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Hey Tugger...
What would you ride on the hillclimbs...
I would not be able to turn over the 39x26...
What would you ride on the hillclimbs...
I would not be able to turn over the 39x26...
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10-24-08, 07:15 PM
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The only time I use something smaller than a 39Tx25T is on Mount Washington, where I stick a chopped up Shimano XTR FC-M952 crankset in my rig with 22T-32T TA Specialties chainrings.
If you aren't the climbing type, you can't go wrong with a compact double and a 12T-27T cassette.
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10-24-08, 07:50 PM
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34/25 most of the time, 34/29 for nasty climbs.
10-24-08, 08:33 PM
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My cross has an Ultegra compact and a MTB cassette
36 x 34
I could theoretically climb walls if I weren't so... clydesdale
36 x 34
I could theoretically climb walls if I weren't so... clydesdale
10-24-08, 09:04 PM
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Has coddling tendencies.
34x30, and I used it this morning. I usually stick with 34x23 on this particular route, but something didn't feel right in the hams as I started the last 2 mile who's your father. They were feeling tweaky, so I called the 30 up for duty and spun away.
04-08-09, 03:11 PM
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Same as mine, and I use that lowest gear from time to time.
I can hear the snickering now, oh the shame of it all!
Sorry, I've been banished for life from Kaiser. Unless I can work up a disguise and an alibi.
I can hear the snickering now, oh the shame of it all!
Originally Posted by Ritterview
Go ahead and laugh. I didn't see any of you on the Climb to Kaiser.
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