I use 46/30 on the bikes I ride the most and it's the bees knees! Two cranks with 50.4 bcd and one 94 bcd, with 12-28 8sp cassettes. I use the entire range and have never wished for a lower gear (at least on the road) and only rarely wish for higher.
Ryan On Sep 1, 2009, at 13:35, Mike <mjawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the input. I totally agree with both of the Steves, that > the gearing is baffling but that it's designed for racers. Still, I > think most folks would be pleasantly surprised at how well a 46 suits > their needs. My Hilsen has a triple that's like 46/36/26 and I love > the 46 outer. > > There was talk a while back about VO doing a crank with something like > 46/30 gearing. That would be good. > > I'm going to order up a 46 outer today. > > --mike > > On Sep 1, 11:05 am, Ryan Watson <rswat...@nyx.net> wrote: >> On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:50, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:17 -0700, Steve Park wrote: >>>> It baffles me that compact double cranksets usually come as 50/36 >>>> or >>>> maybe 48/34; maybe this is a limitation of typical 110BCD bolt >>>> diameter. >> >>> 34T is the smallest you can get on the 110mm bolt circle. >> >> 33T actually. >> Not sure if anyone besides TA makes 'em, though. >> >> Ryan > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
