I have the same 46/30 VO cranks on my road bike, and I swapped the 46t out for a 44t TA ring. I may also switch out the 30t for a 26t or so - it would bring regular road cassettes and short cage derailleurs back into the picture again.
KJ On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 4:00:48 PM UTC-5, john wrote: > > I agree. I have a 46x30 setup. Veto Orange Grand Cru. Very nice I think. > But to make it ideal for me, I actually want to go down to a 44 tooth "big" > ring so that I seldom have to shift down to the 30 tooth ring. Maybe even > 44x28 would be ideal. There's an interesting recent post on the Bike > Quarterly site about gearing, BTW. > > > On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 11:35:17 AM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> I think 46-30 would be great for road riding. You'd be on the big ring >> most of the time, with the bailout 30 available for big hills. I'm planning >> to do this with my Bike Friday (smaller cassette cogs duplicate normal road >> gears). Right now I have a 51-42-30 triple, and have discovered that the >> top gear inches on the big ring are pointless for me. Keeping the granny >> and morphing the two bigger rings into one 46-tooth sounds ideal. > > -- 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.
