+1 on the coasting downhills approach. It's pretty amazing how close to top-speed (AKA "fast enough") you can get when you tuck in your knees and elbows, get down good and low and just let gravity do the work. My days of riding 110+ gear-inch bikes to go 35 mph on steep descents for 1% of my mileage are over! I continue to be impressed by how much easier climbing is when you don't have to think about shifting at all, it's just "easier or harder?".
On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 4:36:57 PM UTC-7, Matt P. wrote: > > I tried a Rohloff once on a test ride. After lots of "internet research", > I was convinced that the Rohloff was going to be awesome....the real life > experience didn't live up to the hype. The shifts were not very smooth, > certainly not worth the expense and extra weight. > > I am currently using a 1x8 set-up on my Hunqapillar. It is geared with a > 34-tooth chainring and a 12-32 cassette. Seems to work well for me in > hilly San Diego, though it does spin out on some downhills, in which case I > just coast. > > The one problem I used to have was losing the chain to the outside of the > chainring when shifting to the higher gears. Solved this by installing a > bashguard where my big chainring used to be, and I also installed an N-gear > Jump Stop to eliminate the chance of dropping the chain to the inside. > > I have noticed that Sram seems to be putting out some new technologies for > the 1x systems, such as chainrings with longer teeth to eliminate chain > drops, and a rear derailleur that is designed to eliminate derailleur > bounce and chain slap. Has anyone tried out any of this new Sram 1x stuff? > https://www.sram.com/sram/mountain/1x-technologies > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
