On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 11:23:36 am UTC+10 Garth wrote: I was watching the uphill penultimate TT road racing stage of the Giro D' Italia this weekend where the eventual winner Primoz Roglic chose to run a 1x for his TT bike. The announcers were "praising" him for the "innovative" choice of using a mtb gearing setup for the TT. Well lo and behold, at a low speed(which is fast for mere mortals, hah hah) he was about 2/3 up the course and he ran over what appeared to be a small break in the road crosswise and his chain derailed off the ring. He put it back on cool as a cucumber and still trounced everyone, but so much for 1x's not failing like any other system, because they do.
I'd say he was either not using a clutch derailleur, or had the clutch disengaged to minimise drivetrain losses. My wife has been using 1x drivetrains for years with clutch derailleurs, on all sorts of road surfaces, and has never had the chain unship. She uses SRAM GX Eagle 1x12 on one bike, and Eagle AXS on another. Nick Payne -- 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/4adfa805-eeb7-438d-8cbd-6bc0c4f2f6c1n%40googlegroups.com.
