If you are asking if a 46/30 will give you sufficient range or close enough gaps, that's something only you can decided. What do you find wrong with the gearing you have? At any rate, it's hard to see how you'll be undergeared at about 113 gear inches.
OTOH, you might be able to adjust your cassette from the 11-30 to something like a 12-34 and get the same range with the 50/30. Generally, it's cheaper and easier to swap cogs or even cassettes than cranksets. Miche (QBP?) sells individual cogs for many different sorts of cassettes. I assume that you are shifting the 11-30 with a long cage rear derailleur that should be able to handle a 34 t cog. At any rate, as with most things, you will want to identify particular problems to be fixed, then arrange the particular changes to fix them. Doing things "in general" is likely to result in more problems and wasted money. FWIW, I used a 44/30 pulling a 14-23 7 speed on my former Ram which was fine for hilly, not mountainous, terrain. For purely aesthetic purposes I swapped this drivetrain for a very pretty Dura Ace 7410 crankset 52/38, 130 bcd) pulling a (IIRC) 16-29 9 speed cogset which gave me much the same range and jumps. Right now, , my only multispeed bike is a "sort of gravel bike" with a 42/28 and a 14-27 10-speed cassette -- 29" wheels; or it will be if and whenever the parts ever arrive from QBP. Range about 87" to 30" with small gaps. Happy new year, all. Patrick Moore On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Call Me Jay <callmehamt...@mac.com> 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. > -- 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 contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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.
