My only advice is to run your proposed chainrings and sprockets combination through Sheldon's gear calculator or something similar, to make sure you don't have a bunch of redundant gear combinations. To me, the only reason for having a close-ratio cassette is to be able to have more incremental cadence options. When you have a complete, mainstream, racer wannabe component group this is usually worked out. But sometimes the more versatile chainring setups like yours (and mine) end up yielding too many combos that are almost identical. At that point, you don't really gain anything by going with smaller cogs.
On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 10:45:56 AM UTC-7 Adam wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm thinking about changing up the cassette on my Hillborne this winter. > I'm currently running an 11-32 (9sp) with 48/36/26 in front. > > I've moved to the midwest, and now the closest thing I see to a hill is a > freeway overpass. I'd like to try a more compact cassette, thinking > something like a 13-28. I somehow have only ridden wide range cassettes, so > this is new territory to me. Any advice on this swap? > > I also realize the triple front is superfluous, but don't want to swap it > unnecessarily, the cassette is getting old, cranks seem fine. > > Thanks! > > Adam - just back from a ride through Chicago snow. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/9e0c4e82-6a43-4853-b25d-0a57f4e140e4n%40googlegroups.com.
