Dave, great looking bike! I love the whimsical lugs; they use the those on the Legolas too. I like the use of the burrito wrap for repair stuff outside of the banana bag. I think I will copy that for my go-fast setup.
Anne, a 34/36-48/50 double with a 12-27 cassette yields a low gear in the mid-30s inches and lets you keep the crisp&simple-shifting short cage derailers. I have found even as a middle-age office worker that mid-30 gears will get me comfortably up anything (paved) here in Western Colorado. If I was carrying a load, then the low-mid 20s gears that a triple allows would be great. For my Legolas, I chose a 36/50 double crank and a mid-range XT rear derailer that will shift up to a 34T cassette cog, yielding a gear around 30 inches. Works great for the mixed-surface type rides for which the Legolas excels. On Sep 12, 10:08 am, Anne Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Ray Shine <[email protected]> wrote: > > Very nice. Understated, almost. I like it a lot. Why a triple instead of > > a compact double? Colorado? > > I have a Roadeo too, and mine has a triple crank too. Can someone > explain why I would have wanted a compact double instead? I thought I > wouldn't have been able to get a wide enough gear range with a double, > compact or otherwise. > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > My hovercraft is full of eels -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
