It would be interesting to run an even lower combo up front to bring the "straight block" esque portion fully into play.
Someday I'm going to run a 9/10/11 speed straight block w/ a wide range double to minimize duplication and simply run through everything on the small ring and do the same on the big ring. That's over simplyfying it a bit but Sheldon worked it out for me a few years ago. On Sunday, January 1, 2012, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Amen (and a respectful minute or two of silence) for the half step + granny setup. Except, you don't need more than, say, six cogs to make it work and once you get (or, at least, once *I* get to seven, I run out of things to do with the extreme cogs. What do you do with the extras? > I used to love my commuting 48/45 with something like 12-13-15-17-20-24-32 semi/syntho/faux/ersatzsemi/demi/ halfstep setup: the 12 was strictly for the outer for downhills with winds; 13 thru 24 half stepped beautifully with a 24.75" wheel; and the 32 was for the 43 that, therewith, gave me a stump pulling 33" gear for the one or two very steep hills I encountered. > Odd: I find that I'd much rather have these gears: 85-75-70-65-60-50 than a much wider range of gears without the 70, 65 and 60 inchers. > Patrick "Just spreading myself (in M Twain's idiom) and not criticizing anyone. I have for very long found bicycle gearing a fascinating topic, even when I use very few" Moore > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:03 PM, GAJett <guy4j...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've ridden a Brooks Pro for years, first on a Raleigh Competition (replacing the original B-17) and now on an AHH. It has NEVER hurt me, even when new, the way other saddles have. And it has never seen the business end of any blunt instrument (other than my bum). >> >> BTW my gearing is a "half-step + granny": >> front: 44 / 41 / 24 >> rear: 12 / 14 / 16 / 18 / 21 / 24 / 28 / 32 / 36. >> This gives a gear range from 18.2 to 100.2 inches on 650Bs. It'll climb just about anything where I can keep the front wheel down, and I can keep climbing when bonked. >> >> This is based on a standard Shimano cassette from RBW and a special combination of chainwheels with Sugino 44 and 24 ordered from RBW and the 41 a TA from Harris Cyclery. Kudos for Grant and the RBW staff from setting this up. >> >> For those not familiar with the "half-step + granny" you can consider this to be a compact double with the ability to fine-tune the gearing on the high side between the large chainwheels. I've ridden this type of gearing for 30 years and wouldn't change for anything! (Originally a TA 49 / 46 / 26 by SunTour Ultra 13 / 15 / 17 / 20 / 23 / 26 102 to 27 inches -- I'm getting older.) >> Cheers. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ilumVpNiJxMJ. >> 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. > > > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW > http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
