Patrick is right - you get twice as much gear change in the rear as the front. But... you can get three times the range if you change them both, right?
I had a plan to make a 2x2, mostly for fun. Once you've got a tensioner, it may as well be a derailleur. Conversely, if you've got a chainkeeper in front, it may as well be a derailleur. I think the main impetus was too many parts in the bin, and redundant fixed gear bikes. And the White DOS ENO freewheels don't have big jumps. Philip www.biketinker.com On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 1:06:43 PM UTC-8, Christopher Murray wrote: > > I don’t know that there would be any advantages outside of a simpler set > up and avoiding an IGH. If you used a triple with 42x32x24 rings you’d have > a low, mid, and high gear. I’d have to figure out the gear inches compared > to a IGH set up to see how they compare. > > I think I’d choose a 3x1 front derailer set up over a 1x3 IGH set up for > mountain biking and remote touring. > > Cheers! > Chris -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.