@Sarah - maybe the easiest thing is to go on a ride with some local list members who can give you some ideas while you're actually riding on these roads.
For example, have you ridden a 24T granny on the road---and if so, with what rear cog? A 24 is really very low for the road (but not for dirt), and a 24T - 32 in the back may be too low to be useful. A 26 or even a 28 may be a better granny depending on your cassette range. But as mentioned already, only you know what works for you. Greg On Monday, November 27, 2023 at 6:13:55 AM UTC-8 sarahlik...@gmail.com wrote: > Bike nerd input is heartily welcomed. Gearing has been a challenge for me > to understand but from spending hours reading and trying things out I'm > starting to understand... thanks to other bike nerds! > > The outcome is I will likely be giving a triple a try. The 34 is my > favorite chain ring to live in, but I long for the higher and lower gearing > when I don't have them. And somehow my brain gets the function of the > triple more than trying to understand all the combinations possible with > the cassette, and trying to comprehend "gearing math." > > On Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 1:45:07 PM UTC-8 Ted Durant wrote: > >> On Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 12:34:51 PM UTC-6 Jason Fuller wrote: >> >> I would echo that triples are pretty nice - not only do you get more >> range, but the 10-tooth jumps in the front are a lot less 'disruptive' if >> you know what I mean. I find the smaller chainring jump means that when I >> hit the base of a hill I can often just drop a chainring and leave the rear >> alone, and it is a natural gear reduction .. whereas on the wide-low >> double, you would be spinning like crazy if you tried the same thing >> >> >> Excellent point, and one that launches me into bike nerd mode... >> apologies in advance if this is too much. >> >> The "standard" chainring gap became 16 teeth when "compact double" 50x34 >> combos became all the rage. That's a 39% jump, the way I measure it >> (Ln(50/34)), or about 2.5 times the 15.4% jump from 18 to 21 in back. Now, >> if you keep that 16 tooth gap but go down to 40x24, that's a ginormous 51% >> jump, which is 3.3x the 18-21 jump. I have a 42x26 on my Waterford ST-22, >> and it's definitely jarring to drop to the small ring when you hit a hill, >> requiring a bit of advance planning to shift a cog harder in the rear, >> first. I spent plenty of time riding half-step gearing, so I'm facile with >> double-shifting, but after a couple hundred kms I'm too tired for that. For >> my Breadwinner G-Road I went with 44x32, which is a gentle 32% jump. It >> means there's more overlap in the gearing, or to put it another way, I'm >> not maximizing the total range of the system, but I very much prefer to >> make that trade-off. At 41%, the 14-tooth gap on the Silver 42x28's on my >> Sams is pretty much the outer limit for me. The Wide-Low (38x24) is a 46% >> jump which is pretty high. >> >> Ted Durant >> Milwaukee, WI USA >> >> >> -- 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/29ca8d44-94c5-4bcf-a6e0-74334d8731b3n%40googlegroups.com.
