Being a history buff and a bike nerd I've been contemplating what it must have been like to race the Tour De France (TDF) in the early years of the Twentieth Century. The first bikes raced would have been fixed gear, followed by singlespeeds. Anyone have an idea as to what ratio's (or gear inches) would have been run back then? Those guys must have been hard-core, I mean look at these guys riding a stage today and struggling on fully geared uber bikes: http://vimeo.com/13386163 Actually I think someone in this vimeo clip mentions 44x22...