Today I'm taking the Sam Hill to the LBS to have the Deore rear 8/9/10 sp freehub body exchanged for a (scavenged; thanks Ryan) 7 sp one. And, if I can find a way to do so, I'll toss the present 13 outer and have a 15-17-19-21-26-32 6 speed, with an extra spacer or two at the big end. For why? One, to put the 19 right in line with the outer 46, for a 68" non-touring cruising gear (Jack Browns). I will keep the 36 since the remaining 67" -- 32" range will probably be nice on long uphills with a touring load. And there remains the 26 inner when I am tempted to despair and give up. But for about town riding, the 46/19 X 28" wheel gives me the ideal, the classic, nay the ultima ratio and ne plus ultra of all-rounder gears and, if I am feeling effete, I can get a full 85" down to 40" on the outer. Gad, the excess!
The other reason is that my mind still boggles at three (3!!!) rings and six (6!!!) cogs: what shall I do with this excess? I dislike, for theological reasons, having unused cogs on my cassette, and anything north of 15 is pretty useless to me. If I keep the 13, it will simply be as an annoying but necessary spacer for the 15. The original 11-32 8 speed is just, how to put it, crazy. 46X11 = 117". Even Eddy didn't have such a gear! The 46X13 is an overkill 99". Fausto would have sneered. The 15 brings things down to a merely athletic level. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Dustin Sharp <paleo.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yup, I pretty much ride mine as a 1x9 until the hills come. I'm running > 44-30 and 12-27. I do spin out on bigger hills and occasionally wish for > something a bit easier for extreme grades. Maybe I should give 44-28 a shot > with one of SRAM's 11-28 cassettes. > > The other thing that makes this setup work well is having a big ring that > is > positioned to let you use almost all of your gears. For me, 135 rear > spacing > and using the inner two rings of a Sugino XD triple with a 113 bb makes for > a great chainline. > > Dustin > > > > > > > IMO a workable wide-range double uses the small ring only as a bail- > > out for the biggest climbs, and the big ring for everything else. > > Something like 44/24 x 12-xx would work pretty well for me. > > > > Bill > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com (505) 227-0523 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
