I would say the 42T chainring is for cruising, and the 30T chainring is for climbing and off-pavement riding. My normal cruising is 70" or 75" gears, though I may start up as low as a 50-inch gear.
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:06:27 AM UTC-5, lungimsam wrote: > > Where are you supposed to cruise on your front rings and rear cassette if > you have a cc? In the big ring while in the middle of the cassette? > > If so, then according to the Sheldon calculator, based on my cruising area > of my XD2 triple/9-speed cassette setup's gear inches, I would need a 30/42 > compact crankset to cruise in the middle area of the big ring of a cc and > then use the 30 ring for me little gears. Staying in the big one would > minimize front shifting, too. I don't need more than 100 inches, so 42 x 11 > would be fine as my big inches combo. I don't think I would spin out of it. > > Is this how I should do it? Just wundrin' if I ever want to give it a try. > I had a used bike once with a 34-50/ 12-28 (I think) that didn't work well > because I had to live on the small ring, and still didn't have anything > small enough for the steep stuff. > > Where do you cruise in your cc setup? > -- 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/d/optout.
