On Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 4:10:38 PM UTC-8, John Bokman wrote: > > Curious: What's been your favorite all-round drive train on your riv(s)? >
I like my 53/42/30 Campagnolo triple paired with a 13-29 or a 14-28 best. Why? - It offers a decently wide range with usable highs and low-enough lows, and nice small gearing jumps that doesn't jar the legs. - It doesn't include crazy high gears I don't need, and excludes that gritty 11T cog that's borderline akin to chewing on gravel. - The Q-factor on the Campagnolo Record/Chorus triple crankset isn't horrible. It's not 145mm, but it isn't mountain cranks wide either. - Campagnolo components during the 10-speed era, especially the aluminum ones, are pretty in a classic way. - Spare parts and rebuildability. Well, not all of it, but much better than SRAM and Shimano, that's for sure. Some may say "that's a lot of overlap", but one can't get wide range and small jumps any other way. Furthermore, the way Ergopowers work, shifting a triple isn't bad. For example, at the transition from the 53T to 42T, you simultaneously actuate both left and right Ergopower thumb levers, to shift the front from 53T to 42T and the rear up 3 gears, so you'll remain at about the same gear ratio *and cadence*, except with different gears. This technique also works when upshifting the front and correspondingly downshifting the rear, using the flappy paddles on both Ergopowers. *No problemo*. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/9cb6e83f-d027-4b29-a94b-b560a39f19c5%40googlegroups.com.
