The only reason I would go 8 is if I was cycling something where I was going to be out of civilization for a long time like maybe riding the 'Stans in Central Asia and wanted slightly higher perceived reliability of the wider chain. I wouldn't go 7 because then you have to keep track of the 4.5mm spacer were you to take your cassette off the freehub.
Actually I would love to cycle the 'Stans, especially the Pamir Highway, but I just don't have that sort of free time at this point in my life. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:46 PM, cyclotour...@gmail.com < cyclotour...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nine works as the best "modern" gearing for me. I'm slowly moving eights > over to nine, and may move my one 10 to nine at some point. I like > standardization :) > > On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 1:35:36 PM UTC-8, Jim Bronson wrote: >> >> That being said, you can get the 9 speed HG50 for about the same price as >> the 7 speed, so IMO if you are starting fresh there's really no reason not >> to go 9 speed. >> >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Steve Palincsar <pali...@his.com> wrote: >> >>> On 02/26/2015 04:05 PM, Jim Bronson wrote: >>> >>>> I like the comment "The HG-50 is still made in Japan, thus the higher >>>> price". $19.95-$25.95 is expensive? Seems like a great deal to me. >>>> >>>> I use the HG-50 9 speed 11-34s and I'm very happy with them. FWIW, and >>>> YMMV. >>>> >>> >>> Perhaps that's compared to the HG50s of 2 years ago, which as I recall >>> were all black and looked kind of not-so-nice. But yes, the price of 7 >>> spd cassettes is very reasonable, especially when you compare with 10 and >>> 11. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! >> > -- > 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. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- 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.
