Oh, I understand that about the triple. But I would prefer to get rid of the cross over. The riding I do is mostly in the 24, but then there are sections of flat and down where pedaling is needed at higher speeds. I'd prefer to simplify things. I spoke with Riv, and it's not too bad to shift things around to a 40-24 set up. I'm going to give that a go.
With abandon, Patrick On Monday, March 24, 2014 4:07:00 PM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 03/24/2014 05:30 PM, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > This intrigues me. I'm getting frustrated with the complexity of my > > triple, and essentially my big ring is my ring guard. I got lost in > > the technical jargon though. Could you please explain things to a > > dummy (because you would be. Grin.)? I currently have the Sugino XD2 > > Crank, Triple 46x36x24. and would love to drop the 46 and have someone > > a bit larger than the 36 for my big ring, plus a real ring guard. > > Using a 24/36/46 triple is simplicity itself. For riding on level to > slighly uphill terrain, stay on the 46. When you run out of gears and > need to downshift (i.e., when you are on the next to largest rear > sprocket and need something still lower) shift to the 36. You may need > to simultaneously upshift one or perhaps 2 in back if the gear you get > is too low, or you could just wait a few seconds to let inertia have its > way. > About the only time you'll need to think about the 24 is on grades over > 10%. At that point, go to the granny, and possibly if the gear is too > low upshift one or perhaps 2 in back to get to a proper gear. There's > nothing at all complex about that. > > Some notes on the 24: use it with the 3 or at most 4 largest > sprockets. Anything beyond that and you're overlapping with the range > of the 36 and unless you can see there's even steeper terrain looming > ahead (making it desirable to stay on the granny) shift to the 36 and > downshift as necessary in back to get to the proper gear. You don't > want to ride on the 24 any more than you need to, because wear is much > greater on the smaller chain ring than on the larger. > > Likewise, if you are on the 36 and you find you are in any of the 3 > smallest sprockets in back, upshift to the 46 and downshift one or two > in back to get back to the right gear. > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
