I want to change my front and rear sprockets, and im not sure how many teeth i should go down in the front and up in the rear. I want to get a little more torque but not take too much off of the top end.

 

dont mess with the rear sprocket, leave it alone. if you want more torque, drop 1 tooth in the front

 

I agree, the rear is for fine tuning your gearing, thats more for racing. Drop the front one and call it a day, you'll be alright with 6 gears to play with, and you'll actually be able to utilize those gears. For example, on a trail where you usually ride the top of 3rd gear, you'll be in 4th now and have all that gear to play with.

 

1- tooth in the front is about the same as 4 + on the rear

 

-1 front equal to +3 rear

 

15 or 16 teeth in front and 41 teeth in back gives you a pretty good ratio. i have a 15:41 and it works great!

 

i have 12-42 i hate it im goin bak up to 14-40 maybe 38

 

2phast4u there is no point to having such a high gear ratio. youu will have alot of torque but you will lose alot of your top end. and you will end up at the end of all your gears too fast and you wont be able to use your engines power to its full potential

 

yeah dats y i decided to go 14-40 its only 1 up from stock

 

good idea