Hugh: Thank you very much for helping me get onto the right trike for me. I am quite pleased with the upgraded version of my Terratrike and I have been able to already make 3 different runs in excess of 10 miles each round trip.
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Recumbent gearing calculator
Congratulations, T, C, and J on successful completion of the Shifting Workshop and passing the Practical Exam with flying stars!
There's no fooling you with random adjustment of limit screws and barrel adjusters.
Greenspeed is a pioneer in reumbent trike technology. The Greenspeed GTO model was arguably the first commercially successful recumbent trike and the vanguard of the Recumbent Revolution.
Use this gearing calculator to figure out gear-inches for combinations of Pinion gearboxes, Schlumpf drives, Rohloff Speedhub, derailleur systems, and many internally geared hubs including SRAM 3x7 and Dual-Drive. Also, since gear-inches is not really a measure of mechanical advantage (thus, won't give indication of such for shorter or longer cranks), we provide a "normalized" gear-inches number, which indicates the effective mechanical advantage of the system in terms of standard 170mm cranks.