Can anyone tell me a reason not to throw a 34 tooth cassette on my road bike with a 53-39 tooth double? Is it impossible to use a road derailleur on that setup, even if I flip, or replace entirely, the b-screw? I have an xt derailleur on my city bike that i could just as well move over, but i'd rather not (because I need the low gears there, too!).
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:00 PM, J. Douglas Way <d...@mines.edu> wrote: > Anne- > > My wife and I also live in Colorado and both of us have triple cranks on > our Roadeos. Debbie's gearing is a 24-36-46 crank with 12-28 cassette. My > crank is 26-40-50 with a 13-29 cassette. So our low gears are quite low, > mid-twenties in gear inches. Yes, we can find paved roads with grades >10% > (Boulder to Ward) and I sure need the low gears. > > It also depends on whether you ride with a high cadence or not. In the > words of one of my students who races, "are you a spinner or a masher?" > > Doug Way > Boulder, CO > > On 9/12/10 10:08 AM, Anne Paulson wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Ray Shine<r.sh...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> Very nice. Understated, almost. I like it a lot. Why a triple instead >>> of >>> a compact double? Colorado? >>> >>> I have a Roadeo too, and mine has a triple crank too. Can someone >> explain why I would have wanted a compact double instead? I thought I >> wouldn't have been able to get a wide enough gear range with a double, >> compact or otherwise. >> >> > -- > ******************************************************************* > J. Douglas Way, Professor > Chemical Engineering Dept., Colorado School of Mines > 1500 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401-7887 USA > Phone: 303-273-3519 Fax: 303-273-3730 Email: d...@mines.edu > http://www.mines.edu/Academic/chemeng/faculty/dway > ******************************************************************* > > -- > 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. > > -- oakland, ca bikenoir.blogspot.com -- 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.
