06-08-2013, 10:59
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Re: pic: 3CIM Ball Shifter
While this discussion has quickly gone on a tangent, I do have a question: Other than lowering current draw for pushing situations, what's the point of a low gear? Unless you're traveling quite fast, your acceleration won't be notably better. For short distances it seems a low gear would be helpful, but because the distances traveled are so short, you're not saving that much time anyway.
I guess what I'm wondering is when someone would want to use a 7-9 FPS low gear with a 14-16 FPS high gear. It seems like to me the only situation where low gear would be more useful than high gear for those speeds would be when you have to push or make really fine adjustments, and both of those are accomplished well with a ~5.5 FPS, 40A traction limited low gear.
I don't have any experience here; I've only ever worked with single speeds, so I'd like to learn.
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