I agree. You wouldn't choose a carbon fiber racing bike as the base for building a dirt road adventure bike.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Clayton.sf <clayton...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to clarify, > > The way I read the article I it was aimed at touring bikes (example shows > a Hunq) and their appropriate gearing. My response too was aimed at touring > bikes not modern carbon race bikes. Plenty of triple options for Rivbikes. > > Clayton Scott > SF, CA > > > > > > On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 5:37:24 AM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: >> >> >> On 09/15/2016 11:45 PM, Clayton.sf wrote: >> > 40t cogs are the domain of 1x gearing IMO, unless it is an academic >> exercise or you are schlepping too much much gear. 22x40 - you would likely >> be able to walk as fast. And... why not use at triple at that point. >> Personally I like short cage derailers for dirt or none at all and don't go >> beyond 36 in a cassette. >> >> In the carbon frame 11 speed era, increasingly 40T sprockets are the >> only way to get gears in the low 20s. Triples aren't an option because >> 1) there aren't many, if any, made for the type of bottom brackets used >> on carbon road bikes; 2) integrated brake/shift levers don't do triples >> (either at all, in the case of the higher group levels, or very >> successfully); 3) even if you could change crank sets you are still >> stuck with a 50T large chain ring on most of these bikes because the >> front derailleur is mounted on a "braze-on" bracket whose adjustment >> slot is made such that you can't lower the front derailleur at all. >> Along with that 50T big ring comes a 34T small ring. >> >> So where does this leave you? 34 x 32 is now the "standard" low gear, >> and the lowest "road" groups offer. With the 23mm tires these bikes >> have, that's a 28" gear. If you need lower than that, you've got to go >> to larger sprockets, and the next larger sizes are 36 and 40 which give >> you 25" and 22", respectively, and you've got to use one of the two >> Wolftooth devices: Roadlink (which will let that 32T capable road rear >> derailleur accommodate a 36T sprocket) or Tanpan, which will let you use >> a Dynasys rear derailleur, which can handle 40T. >> >> None of this is ideal, in that along with those 36 or 40T large >> sprockets you get an 11T 1st position, and 50x11 gives you a 120" top >> gear - and what anybody who needs a 25 or 22 inch low is going to do >> with a 120" big gear I cannot imagine. The next gear down with these >> cassettes is a 50x13 which isn't so bad - 101" - so I imagine basically >> you treat the 1st position sprocket as a spacer and forget you have 11 >> back there. >> >> But basically, with those bikes that is all you can do. >> > -- > 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. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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.
