Garth, I have wondered about this as well. I never use two outer cogs. With the chainring combo I have, my chain line is always off. When I'm using the large chainring, the chain is toward the left of the center and vice versa. I can't go any smaller on the large chainring. (Campy - 46t is smallest I could find). If I could have 14t as my smallest cog, my chain line would be almost straight when I'm using either chainring.
One day I did try what you are contemplating. I put two smallest cogs all the way inside as spacers. Did couple of rides. Then decided to revert it back pending more research about any potential safety issues. There's a very valid use case here! On Thursday, 8 August 2019 02:28:24 UTC-7, Garth wrote: > > > I'm venturing into cassettes and wondered if there were any > complications in rearranging a 9-speed Shimano 12-36t cassette by placing > the 12t cog in the innermost position and then only using the 14-36t cogs > for riding. Essential it's using the 12t cog (I'm assuming it has a > built-in spacer) as a spacer. Or for 8 speed spacing do the same with a > Sunrace 12-34 and make it a 14-34 with 7 usable cogs, placing the 12t > w/spacer at the inner position. I simply have no use for 11 or 12t cogs and > would rather use that space for cogs that I *do* ride. My rings are > 24/36/46 and I really do prefer riding in the largest ring most of all. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/af5ee291-3094-4378-af20-b90fb2115db1%40googlegroups.com.
