And to think a few years back I was laughed at on the for fitting an 11-32 mtb cassette on my road bike 🙂

Yeah, you need to put an 11-32 on a gravel bike to look cool 8)

Fine! I apologise.

Spinning is winning afterall. Although if it’s a 32t you’re spinning, you’ll still get beaten by someone spinning a 23t 😉

11-32 9 speed Sora with a compact up front Px Kaffenback trundles me up the local welsh hills, Horeshoe pass still hurts my legs cause im fat.

I’ve got 11-32 11 speed on my road bike and I really like it. I find my Croix de Fer with 34/50 and 12-28 is over geared for me, I’m thinking of going to 40 x 11-40 at some point.

From earlier posts it seems fine just as long as you don’t make a habit of putting the chain in the smallest sprocket and smallest chain ring, at which point I guess the chain will get a little baggy

There’ll be a dedicated 1×11 road groupset at some point, surely? It seems to make sense, in so far as it’s been around in mtb for a few years now and mountain bikes have always had a larger range of gears than roadie stuff…

11-32 1×9, old MTB bits on my bargain bin Bridleslayer, went for a ride with my mate on his shiny new 2×11 5800 equipped Arkose, what cassette has he got? 11-32 of course quite how much benefit the extra two steps in the range really give I don’t know, but there you go; Road/CX groups have caught up with MTBs and it only took about 15 years…

Just changed my 11-28 road cassette for a 12-30, the range will suit me a shade better and it’s hardly that difficult to change backif I want… Strange that most people just stick with the same cassette range really.

It would save a bit of weight, expense and faffing about, right?

Depends on your frame. 30T should be OK on most frames, but I found a 32T wouldn’t work with a road mech on my CX bike – it might on some frames (and I think some here are reporting it’s OK) depending on just how long the mech hanger is. The issue isn’t the amount of chain wrap, but that the top jockey wheel hits the cassette. You can fix this to some extent by screwing in the B screw, but this will also move the mech away from the small cogs which will make shifting worse. TBH you’re better off putting on a MTB mech if using a wide range cassette as the angle of the mech is different and will keep the pulleys close to the cassette over the full range.