Why yes, I don't need or want many cogs myself which is why I have stuck with 6 and 7 sp. freewheels. Combined with 2 or 3 rings I'm good. BTW, you mentioned your gear selection Patrick, which can *also *be done with half-step gearing +/- a granny, which I really like. It has the 5-6" gear progressions *if *you wanted to do that, but this is not a rule of course, you can cross and shift the cogs any way you like. You don't have follow any pattern, be creative ! I for one do prefer to shift with both hands and less cogs and more actual use of all them and the rings.
But really, I just like to ride , weeeeeeeeeeee , where the folly of rightness and wrongness falls upon its own sword and what's left is "everything else" , and this "everything else" that is Life Itself in which the only death is death itself, and the only living is Life itself. On Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 1:21:07 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Frankly, in my case, I don't need more than, say, 5 cogs total, even for > the sort of climbing I do. Gears of 85", 75", 70", 65", and 60" would let > me ride comfortably, on pavement, on all but 1 ride in 10; and adding a > granny ring as you h, there are no rules saying you must do any set > patternave would take care of that. Drop each gear by 5" and it would be > fine for my dirt riding. After all, I get around Albuquerque just fine on > my 3 fixies. > > But a creeping perfectionism, philosophical and "aesthetic" as much as > practical has led me to adopt 10 cogs on my 1 derailleur bike (the > Matthews) so that I can get those tiny little 1-tooth jumps all the way > from 86" down to 44" on the big (42 t) ring (there is a 24 t bailout ring, > too). Why? Because 10 cogs are possible, and therefore it's fun in a sort > of anxious way to fretfully calculate just how perfectly adapted to my > riding I can get all 10 of them. It passes the time and it's less dangerous > than drinking or chasing women. > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:46 AM, George Schick <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> [...] >> >> All of this is to bring into question just why most of us really need all >> of those gears. Sure, there are those who live in mountainous regions who >> couldn't get by without triple chainrings, especially off-road mountain >> bikers. And what the highest and lowest gears are is a matter of age and >> personal preference. But the 9,10, & 11 tooth cassettes - really? Seems >> like another one of those things that the industry transposed to the >> consumer population. Racers would need that kind of set up since they have >> to match their speed with the rest of pack (and SIS shifting for the >> constant and rapid speed adjustments). But the rest of us - I just don't >> see it. >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
