I'm still stuck in the 70's on half my bikes. My Hetchins is 48/36 with a 14-28 5 speed freewheel in back...love riding this bike. My Paramount has what I consider my favorite gear combo....49/44/28 with a 14-30 5 speed in back. With the half-step gearing I can get any gear needed including a good hill climbing range. Recently I've been putting a lot of miles on 77 Trek with a 6 speed freewheel 14-28 and a 46/28 up front. I also have bikes with 7,8, and 9 speed cassettes so I'm not a total gear curmudgeon...slowly easing into the 2000's. When I do ride my 9 speed cassette (Riv Custom 46/ 30 11-32) I never use the big or the little cogs so i wonder to myself why bother with more. I've never broken a freewheel axle and have a drawer full of freewheels so I won't be jumping ship soon. I like how Jack Taylor sums it up in the first minute of this clip..."they've gone berserk....you don't which one you need ya know".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNsQpCL8LY Rob Markwardt On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 9:35:14 PM UTC-7, Lungimsam wrote: > > For those of you who rode back on the days of 39/50 and sub30T rear 5 and > 6 speed cassettes: > > 1. Would you go back to a sub-30T 5-speed cassette if you could, now that > you have ridden with 30+ T cogs in modern cassettes? > > 2. Was anyone riding 30+t cogs back in the day? Seems like sub30 was the > standard. > > 3. Could I use Compass Cycles' 5 and 6 speed cassettes on my Rivendells > with enough spacers on the freehub to make up for the extra space? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
