Re: [RBW] Re: Suggestions on changes to Joe Appaloosa.

[Jim Willis]

 all: huge thanks for giving this some thought. Garth: This is the route that I was thinking (yes, I have the Andel triple on my LHT and have never had an issue with them). I think I have an old XT MTB RD in my parts bin so just need to find a nice looking (silver!) 110/74 BCD crankset on eBay and that will hopefully sort me out.  Really appreciate the notes about tooth capacity, i hadn’t run that formula in ages so it was good food for thought.  Now, if anyone has any tire suggestions :-) Thanks. On Mar 23, 2025, at 5:16 PM, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote:  I see your RD is a Microshift R10 Jim. It's total capacity is 39 teeth. With your current setup of an 11-36 cassette and 34/46 rings the RD is already at near capacity, 37 teeth. So you'd need a mtb RD with more capacity to get a lower range, plus a 110/74 BCD crankset. Say even a 24/34/46 crank and your current 11-36 cassette comes to 45 total tooth capacity, which is the limit for many long cage RD's. I see Microshift has a 10sp XLE RD that has 47 tooth capacity, nice !  It looks awful in all black, but yeah well at least it's behind you when you ride  ;-). I suppose you must have a silver crank ? If not the Dimension Cross Crank arms are easily a best buy @ $59. Despite the name they are 110/74 BCD. If your LHT is an older one with the no name silver cranks, those are the same cranks. They are made by Andel, model RSC6, stamped on the inside. The tread is a little wider than Sugino/Clippers @170mm w/115m BB, but the crank arms are thicker and notably superior in stiffness to those. I currently use them on my Bomba, I formerly used XD's. If you need rings though a complete crank is likely more suitable for you, if they come with the rings you want, however. In nutshell you'd need a new crank and RD to get a lower gear range and more capacity. Even if you got a pie plate cassette and used a hanger extender you'd need a higher tooth capacity RD. Those pie plates are (over)priced rather high though, so keeping your current cassette and getting a tripe crank and a RD like the XLE would work well. On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 12:45:35 PM UTC-4 Andy Beichler wrote: Did you check to see if the crank is already drilled for a triple?  -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/c_65F0aCHbs/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/db0beff0-ec94-472b-85ea-354b7bbc8001n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/BF87C729-F50D-45F5-AC50-7E875C7E987D%40willisbros.net.