If you go friction it doesn't matter. You don't have to lock yourself into a specific cassette. That being said, 7 speed cassettes are still sold cheap and plenty by Shimano. If you want higher end, you can just cobble together your own cassette. Grand Bois still does 6 speed cassettes.
The Atlantis is 135 rear spacing (like most Rivs). Hub doesn't really matter. You can get the hubs that are for 8-10 speed cassette or ones that are for 10/11 speed and just put spacers on them. I've tried 7-11 speed cassettes. My fast bike is using 2x6 speed. My commuter sees 2x8. Phil Arlington, VA On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 8:08:52 PM UTC-5, Lefebeaver wrote: > > I bought myself an Atlantis frame last fall and am building it up slowly > over winter. I've been riding a Novara gravel bike for the past 3 years, my > first exposure to a 21st century bike with discs, 10-spd index shifting, > yada yada. Except I'm not real impressed with any of it - the harsh ride, > the disc brakes or the 10-spd cassette. I can make rim brakes stop much > better than these discs, and the index shifting has been very finicky - it > even seems temperature dependent (!) - the whole system seems very delicate > compared to the bombproof 7-speed Deore thumbies on my venerable > Stumpjumper. I've also broken 2 chains in 2 years. I'm a big guy and I've > always broken stuff on bikes, but this is ridiculous. So my philosophy on > these things is happily in line with Grant's - keep it simple and robust, > and don't shave weight at the cost of reliability. With regard to gears, he > has said "seven is heaven, eight is great, nine is fine, but ten is too > many". I'd be perfectly happy to go with a 7 or 8 speed, friction or > friction-capable gear system with a heavy-duty chain and solid shifting, > but I'm hearing that it's getting harder and harder to get a quality 7- or > 8-speed cassette and I worry they may go extinct too soon. Since I'm having > a set of sturdy wheels built for this bike and I'm told the hub choice > depends on cassette choice, I need to decide soon on what hubs to use. So I > guess my question is twofold - how locked into a cassette size will I be > with a given choice of hub; and are high quality 8-spd cassettes likely to > remain available for the next, say, 10-15 years? > -- 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.
