What Is The Best Fixed Gear Ratio?

49/13 for a long ride

great video!! i use 48/17 in Tarragona

when i have to take off a sprocket I try to loosen the lock nut and then do some rolling braking to break the sprocket free, before risking my knuckles. also good if you don't own a chainwhip.

46/16

47/17 is my jam. Running a Factory 5 Lattice with a EAI deluxe. Buttery smooth. Double skid patches. I've also got a 19T EAI on the same hub for those tougher climbs.

i have a fixie and it wont pedal backwards😢

what kind of wheels are those?

48x17

I just want to ride fast bro.

I run 48/16
For me it's the perfect All Round Ratio.
I don't do Skids, so having only one skid patch doesn't bother me.

P.S. I'm digging your minimalism !!~

Currently I only have a Raleigh m80 mountain bike. I have all riding terrain here in Michigan. I love the fixie concept. but I think that a 3-7 speed is probably more my thing. Time will tell.

Just sub'd. Great vid. Love what you do. Am interested in all content that 'bikes'. Thanks. Love from America.

San Francisco here. 46-18 flip flop, works like a charm.

52-16 for me

42 18 for climbing

44-13 😣😣

love your sofa, where is it from? 😂

48-14 feels so smooth and fast. Uphills up to 8% are rushable.

will the 57 be coming back in stock?

very helpful

my Fixie is 50/15 and I practically fly on the street, at 70km

46/13

They need to make bike bikes with more room for upgrades
55-13 or something like this would be big enough

I run kind of a big gear, 48/15, I should get smaller gears

I don't know why people always unscrew the sprocket when the wheel is off. This is stupid. I usually loosen the lockring while the wheel is still ON the bike. Then I move my rear wheel against a wall, stand on the pedals and give an inpulse backwards. A little bit is enough to loosen it already. Then I remove the wheel and unscrew lockring and sprocket by hand.

I got 42-17 … I am new to this world but biking around on it for a year now and am thinking to change the gear ratio and try something different! What do you suggest to give it a try?!
🤓🤔😎👍

what’s the frameset called

In my country singapore, the hills are not that steep so I ride a 50/15 and its a very good ratio for me to constant and to climb as well

Hi! What about he relation with a 60 t plate?

48/15 for Durham NC in the states (lots of very long gradual uphills and long very gradual downhills but mostly flat), 46/17 for pulling dog and trailer on other fixed gear super easy for climbs (front brake equipped) bars are interesting, seems like nooone knows what they are doing with them.

53/17

I'm 67 and I ride my Giant Omnium track bike around the Wirral on a 50 14 ratio (I think that's about 90 inch) as well as the joy of riding a fixie there's the added fun in catching passing and dropping all those girls with gears

Is it okey for ur to put 56 17?

I am currently building a single speed to see if i enjoy that type of riding so I'm doing it on the cheap with second hand mediocre compants I'm stuck using what i can get but the hope is 46-48 18 cos my housing estate is at the top of a couple steep hills and I'm not looking to murder my self on the home stretch after a day of working on my feet

A 50 14 is the best

I have one set op with a 48/17,the other sprocket is a 19 that for when I fill weak

Brakeless 53-15 here but my hometown is mostly flat.

What if 46 15 ?

Always switching up the gearing on different bikes for different rides and to switch up working on cadence and strength. normally run 44x18 or 46x19 on my TRCX bike with 35mm cross tires, which is definitely too spinny on faster descents as I max out my cadence at probably upwards of 175 barely scraping to 28ish mph. On my track bike ill normally run 49x16 or 51x16. 53x16 for longer/flatter rides or if I've got the clamp on aero extensions on. I've found 49x16 to be a perfectly suitable daily gear on a stiff, light bike. light enough to average over 20 in the flats without spinning out or pushing too hard and easy enough to sprint up shorter/punchier climbs and spinning out on a descent is normally between 33/38mph.

55/17 boissss

52/20 here

I am using 46x19 for hilly Athens, starts and stop continuously, if not you are dead
I can hold 25km/h all day, light hills I don't even feel them
46x18 is good also

48-16 here.

I'm in Devon to ,48-17 can do near enough most routes although you do sweat buckets going up some hills ,but it nice balanced ratio

That's why i converted my Vigorelli to single speed. After years of riding fixed i realized how inefficent that was :D

What do you think about the bolt on fixed wheel cog Dave?