Agree, wide range and sufficiently small gaps with 10 cogs; 2X10 should give you almost as much range with as comfortable a progression as a 3X8.
I bumped up to 9 from 7 on the Fargo when I went from 46/36/24 to 38/24 and the range is almost as big and the gaps almost as small and -- here is the clincher, for me -- I can do 95% instead of 70% (the numbers are metaphors, of course) of my riding on the big ring, ie avoid the annoying big-to-middle shifts in mid range on rolling dirt. For the Ram, the 44/30 X 14-15-16-17-18-20-23 seven is really more than I need, but that's my kind of riding. Still, one niche the Ram is meant to fill is longer (~50) mile rides with extended hills; RS Watson, I'll take you up on that ride to Santa Fe when the weather cools. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Mike Schiller <mikeybi...@rocketmail.com>wrote: > It's the access to wide range cassettes that's made triples somewhat > obsolete. Using a 44-28 or 46-30 crankset with a 11-30 up to a 12-34 > cassette gives one a pretty good range on a road or country bike. Heavily > loaded touring bikes being probably one of the only exceptions although it > kinda depends on the terrain you ride ... or your physical condition. > > ~mike > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- http://resumespecialties.com/index.html patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Albuquerque, NM -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
