Gents - I don't want to hijack Michael's thread in which he was just inquiring about BB widths, but I strolled down this very same path a while back. I was originally set up (read that "talked into") a 12-23 9-speed cassette coupled with a 36/48 TA Zephyr Light double along with a TA Axix BB. This set up gave me a high gear of 106" (assume 171mm cranks), a low gear of 42", and a "middle" (i.e., large chainring/middle cog of the 9-speed cassette) of 80". This was over the top for most of the riding I do around a mostly flat area with the occasional steeper climbs up from river banks.
I like to have that "middle gear" to be as close as possible to 70", my normal riding gear. So I changed the cassette to a 14-25, which gave me a high of 91", a low of 38", and a middle gear of 71". Then, a couple of years ago I began having all kinds of problems with the seals on that Axix BB and really didn't like the lowest gear available with that Zephyr 36/48. So I began shopping around. I saw that R.Hearse 28/44 - it looked fantastic. And it would have given me a low of 32", a high of 97", and a middle gear of 73", very close to my desired sweet spot, if I had switched back to the 12-23 cassette. Cool enough, but at almost 3 times the cost of the VO Grand Cru 34/48??!! Man, I just couldn't get my arms around that. So I bought the VO and now I'm happy as a clam with a low of 36", a high of 91", and a middle gear of 71". I guess it's all a matter of personal taste and willingness to spend the extra bucks. On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 5:41:00 PM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > > On 12/09/2015 06:29 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Steve is right. That's the nicest $500 triple crankset out there. > > > > Makes a really nice compact double, too. 28/44 seems quite popular, and > you can make some really nice gearing patterns with it. > -- 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.
