Mike: I own the 2-speed Cheviot "Scorcher" on the most recent Blug, so my knowledge and bias will be from the tensioner side.
One thing I liked about the single-cog-on-freehub-with-tensioner arrangement is I didn't have to worry about swapping bottom brackets to get the chainline just right. I picked the 40-26 cranks I wanted, then slid the rear cog around until I had a straight shot between the two chainrings. As someone else mentioned, it's not as clean a look as one chainring, one cog and a chain connecting them. There's a bit of "ok, it looks like I have a derailer now, so why don't I just use a derailer and cassette??" involved, but I solved that by spending the big money on a Paul Melvin. Now my not-quite-a-derailer is a CNCed Paul made in Chico, CA.! My vote is for a tensioner for your Roadini because the chances of wanting to try a full roadie drivetrain later are probably high. -- 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.
