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Originally Posted by donevwil
I'll second the 1:1 as an absolute minimum. Many don't initially realize how much havoc 700 x 42 tires wreak on typical road'ish gearing.
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What do you mean by "havoc"? Certainly a tire that big would raise the lowest gear by almost 2 gear inches compared to a 23mm tire, but that's no more than the effect of 2 fewer teeth on the large rear sprocket, and hardly deserving of being called "widespread destruction" or "devastation".