For me, it's a case of necessity - not so much perfectionism. I ride the Texas hill country on a '76 Nottingham Raleigh. Not comparing myself, but this is where Lance developed his cooling system. My old bike has 122mm dropout spacing, and the only way to get more than 5 gears in there would be a major wheel revision. With 42/52 chainrings, and 13 to 28 in the rear, and I discovered I only had 5 effective gears, and nothing between 70 and 88 gear-inches. I replaced my front chainrings with 41/46 (144bcd - I know, I could have replaced the crank, but I like it). I ended up with 9 effective gears, all evenly spaced, and 3 of them between 70 and 88.
On Saturday, December 29, 2012 1:38:22 PM UTC-6, Tom Harrop wrote: > > You're right, I would be perfectly content with the 13–34. I'm no > gear-ratio perfectionist, and I don't even know what the steps on my > current cassette are, but it seems easy enough to slip the extra sprocket > on the freehub so I may as well try it. Because I'm a lazy shifter, and I > don't often shift at the front, I tend to use the three chainrings as > 'sets' of ratios—stay in the big ring for cruising, middle if I'm off > pavement, carrying stuff or it's windy etc., small for really steep > hills—so I don't really mind having gears that are duplicated between the > 'sets'. I would never make a front shift just to fill a gap between > cassette sprockets! Far too lazy... > > Thanks again for the input. > > Tom > -- 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/-/RMIqUupSv9UJ. 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.
