Favorable by some(like those who write about it), far from all, like those all who don't bother writing about it since their setup works just fine and give it no thought, whatever that happens to be :) Statistics and votes and counts could never account for the whole story .....
Worth it ? Meaning a new crank and/or new changing rings ? A larger cassette and chain may be simpler if it can work with your current RD. ' Worth it, as in I'd rather spend my money elsewhere, or I want to spend just because ..... ? Worth it ? As in am I not able to pedal up certain hills and I don't really like that ? Is that big deal if that really happened, or maybe I'm just afraid of 'what if it might' ? On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 9:27:35 AM UTC-5, Call Me Jay wrote: > > It looks like 46-30 cranks are a favorable of RBW owners (I've reviewed > the group archive). I'm interested in getting the insight of folks that > are using them in moderately hilly terrain on an unloaded road bike. I > live in northern Connecticut and occasionally > do mixed surface rides but bike isn't a "gravel bike"---second hand short > reach custom road with 11-30 cassette and 700x30 tires. Is it worth a swap > from a 50-34? Should I just toughen up and join Zwift? While most of my > road riding is solo or with my young kids, will I be under geared on casual > club rides? Will the less aggressive gearing be too much overlap with > other bikes in my Riv stash---Homer with a triple; Legolas on order that > I'm planning on specing with a 46-28 as a pure dirt road/CX bike? > -- 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.
