> On Dec 1, 2024, at 4:17 PM, Bill Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ted - I'm surprised you think I glossed over my cassette. Maybe you are one > of the members who views the group on your email client, making it almost > impossible to follow a multipost thread?
Nah, I just forgot you’d done that in the wheel section. > Anyway, the cassette is attached to the rear wheel, so I count it as part of > section 2: Wheel set. There, in the post about the wheels, I explained > exactly the cassette I'm using for the initial build: A vintage XTR 12-32 > which weighs 240g. Yeah, that’s pretty light. You might save something like 60g from that. > If I end up with $350 of Christmas money and find that a 38x32 is too high a > low gear, perhaps I'll spring for a 1090 cassette. "Light and free" beats > "ultralight and ultra-expensive" in my garage. Or shop used or leftovers, which you pretty much have to do, now, since SRAM isn’t making much of the 10-11sp OG/XG anymore. I saw some NOS for 200-250. But, $4/gram is still a bit steep. 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/A880526E-A8E9-413E-B7E9-DE2A45AC9C52%40gmail.com.
