I run a 44-28 on my Hillborne with an 11-32 in the rear and like the combination very much.
I found this article from Jan Heine very helpful, particularly his advice on selecting the Base, High and Low gears. https://janheine.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/how-to-choose-your-chainrings/ David 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.
