Gear Inch Calculator

redvee
redvee Posts: 11,922
edited January 2009 in Commuting chat
What is the URL of the GI calculator? Tried using the above as search criteria and returned 300+ pages of results :x
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    http://sheldonbrown.com/gears/

    is what i'v used
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    This is the one I can't find

    http://software.bareknucklebrigade.com/ ... pplet.html

    If somebody can help me, please.
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  • rb1956
    rb1956 Posts: 134
    redvee wrote:
    This is the one I can't find

    http://software.bareknucklebrigade.com/ ... pplet.html

    If somebody can help me, please.
    Sorry, don't understand the question. I tested the above link and it worked fine. It's a Java applet, so it took little while to fire up, but it worked OK. What do you mean when you say you can't find the link when you already have the URL :?:

    Personally, I use the HPV Drivetrain Analyzer.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Couldn't find it but now can, the 2nd post of mine was TIC.
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    So come on...tell all what GI you're pushing?
    Roadie FCN: 3

    Fixed FCN: 6
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Littigator wrote:
    So come on...tell all what GI you're pushing?

    73 Gear Inches
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  • UnworthyPapaLazaru
    UnworthyPapaLazaru Posts: 422
    Im in Edinburgh where there are propoer hills. Im fixing up a fixie and was considering a GI of just under 70. 52t upfront and 20t at the back.

    Would this merit a MTFU?
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Not at all on hilly stuff you could even drop lower. Even 60-65 but it's a trade off with how fast you can spin on the downhills :)
    Roadie FCN: 3

    Fixed FCN: 6
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    I'm happy with 70" in Sheffield where we also have real hills....
    More problems but still living....
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    whats 44/16 then....About 73 inches?! Bit much in Bristol, perhaps I should MTFU.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    82.1 here.

    MTFU people.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Ahem... 88.7 (depending on which calculator you use)...

    MTFU, the lot of you. You too, Jash. :wink:
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Ahem... 88.7 (depending on which calculator you use)...

    MTFU, the lot of you. You too, Jash. :wink:

    Yeah 88 and look what it did to you...

    Sorry, cheap shot.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    jashburnham wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Ahem... 88.7 (depending on which calculator you use)...

    MTFU, the lot of you. You too, Jash. :wink:

    Yeah 88 and look what it did to you...

    Sorry, cheap shot.

    I had it coming...

    And I have found some evidence that it may not have been the bike at all but an underlying injury from a car accident in August... we shall see...
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Pity you can't make beers, I wanted to write MTFU all over your cast.

    *sigh
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    jashburnham wrote:
    I wanted to write MTFU all over your cast.

    Euphemism of the week!
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    jashburnham wrote:
    Pity you can't make beers, I wanted to write MTFU all over your cast.

    *sigh

    You can write it on my leg if that makes you feel better...
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  • rb1956
    rb1956 Posts: 134
    I'm a total weed, with a gear range of 16-84 GI on my Swift. I plead in mitigation that I have to ride up a brutal hill just to get from my house to the main road, and I'm extra weak first thing in the morning.
  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    UnworthyPapaLazaru wrote:
    Im in Edinburgh where there are propoer hills. Im fixing up a fixie and was considering a GI of just under 70. 52t upfront and 20t at the back.

    Would this merit a MTFU?

    I ride 69 too!

    The MTFU should go to Jash and LiTs, thus:-

    MTFU and learn to spin faster
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Attica wrote:
    UnworthyPapaLazaru wrote:
    Im in Edinburgh where there are propoer hills. Im fixing up a fixie and was considering a GI of just under 70. 52t upfront and 20t at the back.

    Would this merit a MTFU?

    I ride 69 too!

    Can't work that out as our sojourn to London I was leaving you at the lights but lost on topend when you wound the gear up. Can somebody explain in simple yokel terms.
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  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    redvee wrote:
    Attica wrote:
    UnworthyPapaLazaru wrote:
    Im in Edinburgh where there are propoer hills. Im fixing up a fixie and was considering a GI of just under 70. 52t upfront and 20t at the back.

    Would this merit a MTFU?

    I ride 69 too!

    Can't work that out as our sojourn to London I was leaving you at the lights but lost on topend when you wound the gear up. Can somebody explain in simple yokel terms.

    Yes, that's got me flumoxed too.
    I'd say that you are probably stronger, but having a road bike I meet with less resistance at the top end, so I can keep getting faster when you top out, I do spin quite fast too, kept up with Biondino (on a brief downhill sprint) at 32 ish last weekend which put me at somewhere between 150 and 160 rpm but that was my absolute max.

    You'd probably be awesome on a roadie!
    "Impressive break"

    "Thanks...

    ...I can taste blood"
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    @revdee I didn't see your bike at the Christmas bash, don't know why but I thought you had a single speed road bike.

    I'm running 72GI now and there's only one regular hill left for me to conquer, I just avoid all the others when i'm on the SS :wink:

    I have considered fitting a white industries DOS freewheel 16/18T but wouldn't that just be gearing?
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    I be riding a SS MTB though I'm in two minds wether to get some cash together and go for a roadie SS. :?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Do it, just think of the extra speed :D

    Just back from a training ride and I'm pretty certain my freewheel is toast, it's gonna be fun getting that off.
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  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    Just checked mine and I'm on 81"

    Every time I'm finding it touch heading into the wind on the Embankment and contemplate changing down a little, all I hear in my head is you lot going "MTFU" :twisted:
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    The MTFU should go to Jash and LiTs, thus:-

    MTFU and learn to spin faster

    I'm with Attica on this one. Spin, spin, spin!

    lost_in_thought wrote:
    jashburnham wrote:
    Pity you can't make beers, I wanted to write MTFU all over your cast.

    *sigh

    You can write it on my leg if that makes you feel better...

    STOPPIT, STOPPIT, STOPPIT!
    :wink: :oops:

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