So before I get into it, if you like what you see in our videos, make sure to hit that subscribe button, so that each one of our videos pops up in your feed. And, if you want to help support us, you can do that by signing up for The Bikepacking Collective. This is our annual membership through URL_TOKEN, that not only includes industry discounts, monthly giveaways, but it also includes The Bike Packing Journal, which is our print publication. If you have more questions or just want to sign up, there's a link provided below. As always, thank you all so much for the support. I've always admired the simplicity of one speed, and I've always envied the folks that were just riding one speed, especially during bike packing trips and races that I've participated in. And well, we're finally here. I did it myself and I'm pretty excited about it. But, before you can even ride a single speed, you obviously need to set it up. Luckily, most bike shops can do this for you and they can help you out with the gear range or the riding terrain that you plan on riding your single speed on. But, what I have found out is it's pretty fun and simple to set up on your own. Not to mention it's pretty beneficial to be able to do so, so that you can swap out cogs or chain rings. Swapping these parts out more often is just going to build your confidence in working on your own single speed setup. So that leads me to the gearing. And this is probably the most common talking point about single speeding, period. What's your gear inches? What is your chain line? Oh, you're using a NUMBER_TOKEN tooth on those hills? These are all talking points that single speeders, I find, use. But obviously, much of this is personal preference, and dependent on the terrain you're riding your bike on. But one single speed talking point that I pay attention to is gear inches. Gear inches is an equation. It's the diameter of your wheel, times the front chain rings, divided by the rear cog. So NUMBER_TOKEN, times NUMBER_TOKEN, divided by NUMBER_TOKEN. That number is important to me because that's my reference number for the perfect setup for my style of riding. Where I ride. So if I was to mix and match cogs and chain rings, I would want to try to keep that reference number, or that gear inches number, that I know works for me. So over the past month or so, I've been testing out different ranges. I used a NUMBER_TOKEN tooth with my NUMBER_TOKEN tooth upfront, which equals NUMBER_TOKEN gear inches. And I found that that was a bit difficult for me to get up some steep hills here in the front range of Colorado. Now we can nerd out about this for a while, but we're not going to do that in this specific video. That being said, there is another element to single speeding and it's the oval chain ring. I've been using an oval chain ring on my geared bikes for a really long time. But, when I used it for my single speed setup, I found that I was able to get on top of that pedal stroke, or when you run out of steam and you find yourself in that single speed, low cadence crawl. And it is extremely helpful. So another interesting thing about single speeding is,
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