wturber
1 MW
I use about two or three gears for most of my riding. I might use an fourth lower gear now and then going up some hills. I pedal at moderate effort about 90% of the time that I ride. So I use the gears mostly to help me match pedal cadence to the speed I'm going and sometimes to help the DD out when going up hills steeper than about a 10% grade.
I run in my 53T chainring (road crankset on a MTB bike) almost exclusively, but haven't removed my smaller (42T) chainring just in case I ever need to get home going uphill without e-power. The 42T not only gives me a lower gear directly, it allows me to use my largest rear sprocket as well since it frees up some chain length. But using those low gears make no sense if I have e-power.
I run in my 53T chainring (road crankset on a MTB bike) almost exclusively, but haven't removed my smaller (42T) chainring just in case I ever need to get home going uphill without e-power. The 42T not only gives me a lower gear directly, it allows me to use my largest rear sprocket as well since it frees up some chain length. But using those low gears make no sense if I have e-power.