On the two examples I posted above,both with 12t smallest cog, I used the 96" gear all the time. The 104" - I've been there, but it's not particularly useful.
On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 9:33:29 AM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > ... > > 11 is just plain silly in my opinion, and all 10 gives you is an 11 > tooth small sprocket. That's fine for a small wheeler, although 10 or > even 9 tooth is even better for my Moulton, but for a 26 or 27 inch > wheel, on anything but a tandem even 12 produced a high gear that's far > too high for my needs. Yes, you can go to tiny chain rings and get 12T > high gears down to a reasonable number, but then you're stuck with tiny > chain rings, front derailleurs made for larger and with more rapid wear > on a part that's not really meant to be readily consumable. It's one > thing to whip off a cassette and put a new one one, but a whole > different price class to replace chain rings. > > Some of the stuff they come up with for racers is just a bad fit for the > likes of people like me. > > -- 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.
