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Re: pic: 67 Hanging Around

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Originally Posted by LLogan View Post
That seems counter-intuitive to what I would imagine, as I thought that you would need a larger sprocket on the smaller wheel to increase its linear velocity.
You need a smaller sprocket on the smaller wheel. The smaller wheel needs to spin faster to cover the same ground as a larger wheel, and when you chain a larger sprocket to a smaller sprocket, the smaller sprocket spins faster.
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