All of my bikes have triples 24/36/46 and I've had one with a 50/38/24 ... I've never actually had problems with chain length. .. all I do is size it to small small with the slightest tension and go with it. I don't want to give up the big.. and I ride in the 36 or 38 most of the time up front.. however the 24 saves me often. A 24/36 climbing gear when fully loaded gear and otherwise. I don't get that extreme with a compact double. Either I don't get a big enough top end or not lough enough bottom end. When I had plastic bikes the 50/34 was all I had for hill days so 34/27 was best I could do.. yuck.. :) So just throwing my vote out there for the triple.. :) I love em.. :)
I do have a 42/24 White industries double if anyone is looking :) My wife kept running out of gear with flats and tailwinds so I got her a Rene Herse triple. Now if I was in shape and strong I would totally agree with the compact double :) With respect .. old fat and slow me :) Kelly On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 5:31:29 AM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: > > fair enough - we mostly assumed you were posting the photo to laugh about > it rather than ask. But kind of the point of having a compact double is to > ride in those extremes. > > > > On Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 11:05:38 AM UTC-5, A. L Young wrote: >> >> Nah, everything's fine now after adding an extra link to the chain. I >> don't ride in big-big or small-small combos, so I'm not concerned about >> this happening again. >> >> I shared this mostly to laugh at myself a bit and as a reminder to check >> chain length after swapping out drive train parts. >> >> Cheers! >> Aaron Young >> The Dalles, OR >> >>> >>> -- 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.
