Well I’m glad I forgot to check back here before popping to the bike shop because it does work fine, with loads of room to spare. I didn’t even adjust the b tension screw. It’s non-shadow btw, this was before shadow came out. It’s the first one with the X design on it.
What do you want it to do?
Well when I build this 29er I swapped the kit over from my 26er and I noticed that bottom gear wasn’t all that low any more, but more annoyingly I was hardly ever using the big ring except on descents, as the gears were way too tall unless I used a sharp chainline. So when I saw these 12-36 I though that would be ideal.
BUT
I thought my old cassette was 11-34 and I didn’t check.. must’ve been 11-30 because 36 looks absolutely huge and 22-36 is stupidly low. Feels ridiculous tbh although the big ring feels more like it should. Still, it was only £20, and it’ll come in handy towards the end of the Trans Cambria way I’m sure 🙂
It did get me wondering about 1×9 but 32/12 isn’t that tall really, I’d be spinning out on road as soon as it went downhill a bit.