Geared 29 vs. Geared 36 - an updated review

[saskatchewanian]

@magnustudios

I wonder if a really heavy small wheel might be an asset.

Been there, done that, have the scars to prove it.

There were some up sides, there were some downsides but overall I just wasn’t experienced enough on one wheel to really handle my contraption.

Advantages of a heavy wheel

I noticed that I feel a lot more stable on my 26 X 3 MUni wheel with 170mm cranks than the wheel that I built up from an old 27 X 1 ¼ roadbike wheel, UDC hub and 127mm cranks. At first I thought that the main difference was that the MUni wheel had a much wider footprint and was run at lower pressure. I decided to experiment a little bit and first put some 170mm cranks on the road wheel, this helped a little bit with stability but seemed extremely mismatched with a wheel I built for speed. The …