You're right, I would be perfectly content with the 13–34. I'm no gear-ratio perfectionist, and I don't even know what the steps on my current cassette are, but it seems easy enough to slip the extra sprocket on the freehub so I may as well try it. Because I'm a lazy shifter, and I don't often shift at the front, I tend to use the three chainrings as 'sets' of ratios—stay in the big ring for cruising, middle if I'm off pavement, carrying stuff or it's windy etc., small for really steep hills—so I don't really mind having gears that are duplicated between the 'sets'. I would never make a front shift just to fill a gap between cassette sprockets! Far too lazy...
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