use my cx stylee fugly to cope with some local 1 in 5 road hills and the drops were great against the head wind on the Trans Pennine Trail yesterday – i know the racers and darkside people will just say try harder but i’m the sort of age when one knee has been operated on and my groin is full of stitches so i don’t like to push a big gear and don’t see why others should dictate that i do!
use an XT mech with a long cage and Dura ace STI’s with the XT mech don’t think you are so limited in choice on rear cassette, you need an old style mech with barrel adjuster unless you’ve got adjuster on the frame nipple – just need to calculate the total capacity – i think its called that
…just realised you are running 10speed so i guess that won’t work