That is indeed the question most succinctly put. My "road bike for dirt" -- not the singletrack mountain bike -- is geared with a "subcompact" 2X9, 38 X 24, where I hardly ever use the 24, and where I shift the 9 with Silver (friction) bar end shifters. At least with friction, it's much easier to control the rear shifts than dropping the chain to a granny ring 14 t smaller than the big ring.
Since the mtb will be used largely for hilly singletrack where large gear drops/raises will be common, I'm interested in simplifying by removing the front shifter. (As I type, sitting in the parking lot of ABQ's only decent skating rink on the far eastside of the city, at the base of the Sandia mountains, I've just come back from a brief dog walk, having discovered a very nice little single/doubletrack that, said a passerby, gives access to some miles of trail and fire road. I must bring the Bontrager, the next time Catie has a lesson.) The weird close ratios in the middle of my theoretical cassette are for the flatland singletrack and adjacent access roads near my house; twisting but flat and sandy. A 55 to 69" range is just right for that. BTW, Ted, you may well be right about the gear calculation for the 44/11. I have a years old Excel spreadsheet for gear calculations, and I simply copy and replace variables, which sometimes leads to errors. Ted "context given" Kelly said: On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:21 PM, ted <ted.ke...@comcast.net> wrote: > 0 inch drop from the big ring when in the "cruising" gears, I think the > question he has could more concisely stated as: > Is shifting a 1x10 set up 3 or 4 cogs in back as simple as shifting > rings on a 2x10 set up? > > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
