you can accomplish the same narrow range with wider rear steps and a half-step crank. This was 27" wheels, 120mm OLD, 46/41T rings (2nd rebuild)
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/aP1010004.jpg> It had all of Patrick's cruising requirements, but didn't have the short gears to get me comfortably up the 14% grades in my neighborhood. 3rd rebuild with a 700C Synergy/ Phil wheelset, cold-set to 126mm OLD, and wide-7 Suntour Winner freewheel, cyclotouriste triple with half-steps (46/42T) plus 26T bail-out <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/700c/aP5280019.jpg> This had only one overlap on the half-steps, 70 inches, which is a very useful gear to have overlapped. The bailout got me down to 22 inches and up trees if I wanted. <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/Viner/aP5100017.jpg> I started with the 3x7 gear chart, and duplicated what I needed from it in a custom-9 compact double, that gave me a range of 23" to 95", and 5-inch steps (single tooth) from 65 inches to 85 inches. On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 6:13:54 AM UTC-5, Chris Lampe 2 wrote: > > I'm with Patrick in that I prefer single-tooth jumps in my cruising range > but I also prefer a wide gear range and a 1x drivetrain so that pretty much > requires a 9-speed or higher cog. > > > > On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 11:35:14 PM UTC-5, Lungimsam wrote: >> >> For those of you who rode back on the days of 39/50 and sub30T rear 5 and >> 6 speed cassettes: >> >> 1. Would you go back to a sub-30T 5-speed cassette if you could, now that >> you have ridden with 30+ T cogs in modern cassettes? >> >> 2. Was anyone riding 30+t cogs back in the day? Seems like sub30 was the >> standard. >> >> 3. Could I use Compass Cycles' 5 and 6 speed cassettes on my Rivendells >> with enough spacers on the freehub to make up for the extra space? > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
