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Title: Cruiser gearing
Post by: matt on January 14, 2013, 04:14 PM
Hi guys, I am building a cruiser and could do with some advice on the best gearing set up please  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: brass monkey! on January 14, 2013, 04:21 PM
Hi guys, I am building a cruiser and could do with some advice on the best gearing set up please  :daumenhoch:

NS or OS ?

Think my old Floval is 41/17
Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: brass monkey! on January 14, 2013, 04:23 PM
Hi guys, I am building a cruiser and could do with some advice on the best gearing set up please  :daumenhoch:

NS or OS ?

Think my old Floval is 41/17

With 180 length cranks
Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: Taipan on January 14, 2013, 04:28 PM
39T 18  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: hooga1975 on January 14, 2013, 04:36 PM
I run 39/16 on all three of my cruisers.

It is great on my S&M and GT but the Skyway feels too spinney.  I may gear the skyway up to 41/16
Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: Dark Diggler on January 14, 2013, 04:51 PM
For racing, most people use these;
39/17 (pretty much dead on the same as 44/16 feels on a 20")
41/18 (a little easier than 39/17, a bit faster out the gate for racing)
34/15 (bit easier still)
38/17 (spinny!)

All depends what you'll be doing and how you want it to look really, I ran 30/13 on my first cruiser and it looked nice and clean (that equates to slightly harder than 44/16 on a 20".)
If was just cruising around and messing around on Jumps though I would probably do what Hooga has done and make it harder gearing :daumenhoch:


Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: Dex Dexter on January 14, 2013, 04:53 PM
Messed about with a few and eventually rested on 39 / 17.

Started more spinney but feels better on this one.
Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: Pooch on January 14, 2013, 05:08 PM
Messed about with a few and eventually rested on 39 / 17.

Started more spinney but feels better on this one.
got that on my floval ...  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: THIRSTYKIRSTY on January 14, 2013, 05:42 PM
42/18 with 180 cranks

= bigger gearing means more torque which equates to faster gating and more pull out of corners

well thats wat some engineerin bloke told me anyways
Title: Re: Cruiser gearing
Post by: neil on January 14, 2013, 07:14 PM
I've always ran with 39/17 on cruisers as said before its virtually the same as 44/16 on a 20 :daumenhoch:
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