Show me your touring set up

[Cunobelin]

That is the downside. I have a 34 on the front which is just the minimum that is allowed.

Sclumpf has three options:

Mountain Drive - BIG cog on front and reduce gears by 1.6 when activating

Speed Drive - Smaller cog on fornt and then increase by 1.6 when activated

High Speed Drive - SMall cog on front and then increase by 2.5 when activated

Basically choose your normal speed and see which one allows you to spend most time in the non-active range

[Tigerbiten]

That is the downside. I have a 34 on the front which is just the minimum that is allowed.

Rohloff have revised the lowest ratio for the Speedhub.
See this page -> Here
My 30/13 everyday gears are now just within spec as is a 34/16 combo ..... 
But my 30/16 touring setup is still out of spec ..... 

Plus the Mountain drive is the opposite of the HSD, a 2.5 step-down in gearing.

[woollypigs]

Still awaiting results etc.

So I have talked to Kevin at D-tec had a great 30min on the phone with him and then nothing, phone calls and emails unanswered, well I was warned.

Trying atm to find out how to get down to Auntie Helen to borrow her Ice Q and will combine that with a trip to D-tec. So hopefully in a few days/weeks I will back on the roads again, just need a _LOW gearing as we are in a rather lumpy bit of the world atm.

Thanks for the photos etc

[Kim]

No shortage of low gears on ICE trikes.  They're also rather fun on the way back down.   

[Tigerbiten]

Standard low gear on an ICE trike is 15".
But it's easy to swop the inner chainring from a 26t to a 22t to lower it down to 12.5".

Mine at the moment is 9.5" ....... 
Which is a bit low for the Rohloff, so I've got to be carefull up the very steep stuff.

[Kim]

Standard low gear on an ICE trike is 15".

Unless you go for the short cranks option, where they take all the chainrings down a couple of teeth to compensate (so you get a 12.5" gear with a somewhat higher gain ratio).


9.5"   

[Tigerbiten]

Running twin chainring at the front on my HSD now.

Low range, 38t/21t which is 9.3"-49" then overdrive mode upto 123".
High range 53t/21t which is 13"-69" then overdrive mode upto 172".

The twin ranges work great together, as it opens the range the gears 8-14 work in, so I can stay in the low drag gears longer.
Plus if I hit a short uphill in overdrive mode, I can drop the range for a couple of extra gears before I drop out of overdrive mode.

Only downside is the spider is held on the HSD by a weak circlip.
To much sideways force pops it off.
When the tour ends I'm going to have to improve it's hold by deepening the circlip groove it sits in.

[Valiant]

I want to visit Kevin.

[woollypigs]

I want to visit Kevin.

Me too. Had one great chat with him three weeks ago and over the last three weeks I have tried to contact him via phone, email and in real life(knocked on his front door) and failed.

[Kim]

I want to visit Kevin.

Me too. Had one great chat with him three weeks ago and over the last three weeks I have tried to contact him via phone, email and in real life(knocked on his front door) and failed.

I'm glad it's not just me then.

[Auntie Helen]

Woolly, in case you hadn't seen this, here's my latest touring setup with my 70 litre bags...

http://www.auntiehelen.co.uk/new-touring-luggage-radical-banana-bags/

[woollypigs]

Very good review and fettling there