What Marc Irwin said. I'm using 46/30 with 11/28 (8s) and I find I spend a lot of time now in the middle gears. I tend to front shift at stop lights now: I shift 46->30 in one of 2 or 3 middle gears, then shift 30->46 once I start to roll.
This is a relatively new system for me (I previously ran a 53/39) and it's taking a little work to get out of the mindset that I was previously in. The 30/28 really is as low a climbing gear as I can imagine for the riding I do around here (Connecticut). And while I never, never, NEVER thought that I would use an 11t cog, 46/11 is nice to have at times (e.g., on 9% grades). On Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:38:08 AM UTC-4, Marc Irwin wrote: > > I have a 46/30x36/12 setup. I don't think about it. I use whatever feels > comfortable wherever I might be? > > Marc > > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:06:27 AM UTC-4, lungimsam wrote: >> >> Where are you supposed to cruise on your front rings and rear cassette if >> you have a cc? In the big ring while in the middle of the cassette? >> >> If so, then according to the Sheldon calculator, based on my cruising >> area of my XD2 triple/9-speed cassette setup's gear inches, I would need a >> 30/42 compact crankset to cruise in the middle area of the big ring of a cc >> and then use the 30 ring for me little gears. Staying in the big one would >> minimize front shifting, too. I don't need more than 100 inches, so 42 x 11 >> would be fine as my big inches combo. I don't think I would spin out of it. >> >> Is this how I should do it? Just wundrin' if I ever want to give it a >> try. I had a used bike once with a 34-50/ 12-28 (I think) that didn't work >> well because I had to live on the small ring, and still didn't have >> anything small enough for the steep stuff. >> >> Where do you cruise in your cc setup? >> > -- 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.
