one month review

[low wong]

I'm new Quest 2.0 owner, this is my first recumbent and no any recumbent experiment before. After two weeks practing in the near by park, I ended up about 24 km hilly terrrain cycling from Taipei city to the Yangmin mountain (600m height). After this trip I changed my Quest's casseettes to 11~32t, expect further improvement for hilly area cycling.

 

[Charles.Plager]

Hi,
Sounds like a very

Hi,

Sounds like a very promising start. Keep it up (and keep reporting back to us!).

Am I correct that you have the 26" (559) wheels? If so, I can easily understand the standard gearing not being low enough for hills.

Cheers,
Charles

 

[low wong]

Hi Charles, 
My Quest 2.0

Hi Charles,
My Quest 2.0 have 451wheels.
Cheers,
wong

 

[Charles.Plager]

Hi Wong,
O.k.  Good to know.

Hi Wong,

O.k. Good to know. With the 32T big ring on the cassette, you match both the rear cassette on my Sofrider and are pretty close to the same low end gear inch that I have (I've got a 26" wheel, 22T granny gear and 32T on the rear cassette). For big hills here (or the medium hills pulling a trailer), I often find myself in the lowest gear.

Ride safe,
Charles