On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 12:16:23 PM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote:
Piaw: It's easy and, thanks to AliExpress, relatively cheap to build your
own cassettes from loose parts
Thanks to some coaching from Patrick and Garth, I sourced from Ali Express
the necessary cogs and spacers to build a 7-
Ted
So, you have settled on what your gearing and derailleur choices will be?
If yes, what exactly will they be? What rear wheel OLD will you be using?
Will it be a cassette rear hub or a freewheel? How many cogs in back,
what cogs? If it's a contemporary 10 or 11speed cassette width, have
Piaw: It's easy and, thanks to AliExpress, relatively cheap to build your
own cassettes from loose parts -- at least, perhaps not for really huge
cogs. But a half step + granny could give me, anyway, nice close cruising
gears in the 75" to 60" range plus a downhill gear or two and some low
bailout
I'm a big fan of half-step + granny for 7-speed rear cassettes and
freewheels. I think I even wrote an article about it for the Rivendell
Reader at one point (good luck digging it up!). What killed it for me was
once cassettes got to the point where constructing your cassette was no
longer supp
