48/15 is what I run and is a good ratio to start on. I would get yourself this combo first and ride on it for a while to see if you enjoy riding on the track.
No point in buying a bunch of rings until you need them.
i’m riding 49/15 and its great, thinking of going up a bit, mainly because i’m curious, don’t worry about it too much, mid 80s is where i was told to start, and once you’re out riding you really won’t be thinking about ratios, and, like me, with little experience you have nothing to compare to anyway
cool i have a 47 atm with a 14 but i also have a 15t cog
i currently run campy record cranks and chainring and i was was just wondering are the BREV. FYXOMATOSIS Chainrings top quality as they are on sale now for under $60 opposed to $150+ i would pay for a genuine campy chain ring.
get a cycle underground chainring. same as the fyxo chainrings without the fyxomatosis stamp (sorry andy). same ring, but cheaper.
you wanna learn how to spin first and foremost,so start on something in the mid 80’s, then go from there. I ran 48x15 for quite a while, then got tempted by bigger gearing before wiser heads told me that gearing down & learning to spin is better than winning races on a bigger gear than everyone else.
I now switch between high 80’s and low 90’s depending on the race.
this is all referring to DISC by the way, outdoor requires lowering the gearing a little bit
myself and alot of others on here race and throw out info all the time but really unless you know for a fact some on is experienced and knows what there talking about take it all with a grain of salt,
so brenno here is pretty much the only persons advice i would follow whole heartedly, not knocking the non-mleb guys though i just dont know em
We’ve had a few new guys show up recently on 90gi or less, and it’s made our pacelines quite unsafe. Not just an issue relating to an easy gear I know, but it’s something to take into consideration. With an easy gear you’re able to speed up/slow down a lot quicker than someone on a harder gear, so just be mindful of this and don’t make any major speed adjustments and you should be ok.
How do you all race competitively on such small gearing? I have to run 50-14 just to try and keep up! Then again, spinning was never my forte.
Plus remember most trackies when refering to GI are basing it on a 27" rim. So if you’ve got a fancy iPhone gear calculator app you might get a different number.
So when someone says 86" that’s an 48:15 (could also be a 51:16).
There’s a Japanese guy that sell 2nd hand DA, Sugino and Campy NJS rings on eBay for $50 ish. Also track Supermarket are pretty cheap.
see, we’re quite the opposite. dudes keep turning up mashing these huge gears, and they can’t handle the speed they’re able to achieve. drifting up out of corners, surging into walls of riders, wobbling with each pedal stroke… it’s getting so bad the commissaires are considering limiting gears for each grade.
so why bring it up? i didn’t see any advice anywhere from “non-mleb” people that was particularly different to what Brendan has said
you can’t replace ability with gear inches, how are “easy” gears making the paceline unsafe? i think this an ability problem more than anything
this is pretty much exactly what i’ve been told, it’s really tempting to go up gears, but currently, i feel like the best idea is to run the smallest gear that you can, this is going to give me the ability to control my speed easily and safely
