I agree with all of the positive comments about the XD2 wide/low on this post. I have an old 1970's vintage Fuji Finest that I had converted to a single speed. And that served me just fine for many years on most trails in the area. Then I gradually got to the point where some of the steeper climbs (7% - 8% grade) just got to be too much for my aging carcass. So I started fishing around in my parts box and came up with a NOS Sun Tour Winner 13-23 five speed freewheel, still in the box. Then, I started looking around on the web for a crankset with chainrings that would match the freewheel cogs nicely. Riv's XD2 40/26 combo was it! It gives me my favorite 70" on the 15T cog (while on the big chainring) and I can bump it up to an 82" in one direction for some downhills and down to 63" and 53" for milder climbs (pedestrian bridge approaches, etc.). Then, when I get to the steeper climbs I can switch down to the 26T ring for a "granny" to spin my way up. Yes, this amounts to some overlap gears between the two chainrings and that freewheel, but I don't care - I just use the 26T and the two largest cogs for the steepest climbs and stay on the 40T 95% of the time, anyway. It all worked out perfectly.
On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 2:42:28 AM UTC-5, lum gim fong wrote: > > And how does that guard attach? > Is it a real double or an xd2 triple with the guard in place of the outer > ring? -- 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.
