It may help to think about how what you have that matches what you are considering feels.
A 46x11 high gear will be the same as the 50x12 that you probably currently have as a 2nd highest gear. Is that high enough for you? A 30x30 low gear would, of course, be one to one. Do you have a one to one combination on another bike? E.g. does your Homer have a 24t small ring and a 24 tooth cog. Does that one to one gear on another bike seem low enough to you? Going from a 50x34 crank to a 46x30 will basically cost you one gear on the high end, and get you one more gear at the low end. Is that trade off worth it to you? An alternative way of getting something similar would be an IRD 9sp 12-34 cassette, though the rather large 6t step from the 28 to the 34 may be bigger than you want. On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 6:27:35 AM UTC-8, 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.
