{"id":1840,"date":"2026-08-20T13:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:58:50","slug":"upgrade-to-the-gear-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/20\/upgrade-to-the-gear-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to the Gear Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have upgraded and updated the\u00a0 Gear Calculator. Main improvements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tire width and rim size are now two separate entries. Pick any tire width rather than being restricted to a list.<\/li>\n<li>We have entries for new internal-gear hubs &#8212; 3&#215;3 NINE, Kindernay VII, Enviolo.<\/li>\n<li>We have added coverage of a few more rim sizes.<\/li>\n<li>We have added more introductory material including advice on using the Gear Calculator on a cell phone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An example of results:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1842\" src=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gear-chart-example.png\" alt=\"Example of Gear Calculator results\" width=\"731\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gear-chart-example.png 731w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gear-chart-example-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gear-chart-example-548x600.png 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have upgraded and updated the\u00a0 Gear Calculator. Main improvements: Tire width and rim size are now two separate entries. Pick any tire width rather than being restricted to a list. We have entries for new internal-gear hubs &#8212; 3&#215;3 NINE, Kindernay VII, Enviolo. We have added coverage of a few more rim sizes. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/20\/upgrade-to-the-gear-calculator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Upgrade to the Gear Calculator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}