+1 for the 44/30 combo. I've used this on a mountain bike with home-brew 9 speed cassette, and on a ram with a 14-23 7 speed. Pro 5 Vis in both cases.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:00 PM, john <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree. I have a 46x30 setup. Veto Orange Grand Cru. Very nice I think. > But to make it ideal for me, I actually want to go down to a 44 tooth "big" > ring so that I seldom have to shift down to the 30 tooth ring. Maybe even > 44x28 would be ideal. There's an interesting recent post on the Bike > Quarterly site about gearing, BTW. > > > On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 11:35:17 AM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> I think 46-30 would be great for road riding. You'd be on the big ring >> most of the time, with the bailout 30 available for big hills. I'm planning >> to do this with my Bike Friday (smaller cassette cogs duplicate normal road >> gears). Right now I have a 51-42-30 triple, and have discovered that the >> top gear inches on the big ring are pointless for me. Keeping the granny >> and morphing the two bigger rings into one 46-tooth sounds ideal. > > -- > 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. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************* *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* Carthusian motto -- 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.
