On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 11:50 -0600, Joan Oppel wrote: > She asked me why I could so easily go up the hills (well, I do ride a > LOT and usually on hilly terrain). I said, well, you might do better > with more gears. She replied, I know, I shouldn't have listened to > the guy in the bike shop who sold me this bike and told me it had all > the gears I would ever need.
They almost certainly also told her a compact double gave her the identical low gear that she would have with a triple. And, for a very narrow set of assumptions, it does. Of course, that set of assumptions doesn't include cassettes with 32, 34 or 36 tooth sprockets, or granny rings with 24 or 26 teeth, or triples with big rings of 46 or 48 teeth: in other words, Joan Oppel-style gearing! That is to say, the sort of gearing you will find on most Rivendells. -- 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-bunch@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.
