It sounds as if you are a masher if you are cruising in a 84” and climbing in a 68”.
With the new Roadeo and the OEM/stock 11-sp (Ultegra R8000), crossover gearing, I’m still getting used again to shifting between big and small rings. I learned to shift 2X5s back when cross-chaining was the ultimate sin, and my only other current 2X (10) bike is a 1X + granny. So I was very surprised to hear onlist recently that people nowadays shift all 11 cogs with the outer/big ring. That certainly makes shifting on rolling terrain easier than futzing between big and small rings. On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM Ted Durant <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2025, at 5:48 PM, Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ted’s Riv Road (custom?) is lovely too. Ted, what cogs do you have in mind > when you speak of “getting on top” of the 53? > > Patrick Moore, who stays on top of a 52 uphill and downhill and against > and with headwinds (but pulling a 17 to cog on a 24 1/2” tall wheel; 75” > gear). > > > Today’s ride was mostly on the 17 (84”) and 19 (75”), down to the 21 (68”) > on a couple of hills. Nothing terribly steep, max at about 5%. In the 16 > (89”) or 15 (95”) with some tailwind/downhill. For me, staying on top of > the gear means a cadence over about 70. If I get down to 60 I feel like > I’ve lost it. > > 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/4D2004B5-99AB-4E78-93B0-8542AA086621%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4D2004B5-99AB-4E78-93B0-8542AA086621%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- 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/CALuTfgtmr7TBPfGoqTkAVSyTGKq89w4RVQZ08YitH9mGOTvdcw%40mail.gmail.com.
