Dear Joe, I've read that racing cyclists would use their gears that way back when chains were stiffer and chainline an obsession--big ring with the small tooth-count half, and small ring with the large cogs. But they'd be working with 4 or 5 cogs, and relatively small gaps between chainrings--like five teeth. However, those days were long gone with 6-speed gear. Pretty much all of the older riders when I got going used "standard" racing gears, so 42-52 (or 53--ooh a sprinter!) up front and a 13-XX cluster in back. In Louisiana, XX = 18 or 19; in Colorado, XX = 24 or 28. A few had the drilled Campy triple setups, but they weren't racers. I started on the same stuff (though with junior gears) and switched to HS+G once I got over my racing bug. It remains an elegant and efficient system, at the expense of a triple chainring setup.
I mostly use a wide-range crossover in these days of many-cog cassettes--basically the Half-Step is replaced by a close-ratio 1X10, and the Granny remains as bailout. Best Regards, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 10:45:20 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Weird, it looks like they split the gearing into two stages. Like you'll > use the smaller jumps on the small cogs for flats, then leap to the other > set of small-jumps for climbing. Assuming that convoluted description makes > sense to anybody, I wonder if it makes any sense on the road. -- 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.
