13 speed anyone!
 

[Closed] 13 speed anyone!

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Bit limiting if you can only get down to 150mm though.


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 11:39 am
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Please god ,[b]NOOoooooooooo[/b]


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 11:40 am
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Move aside 29 vs 650b vs 26, your argument is so 2014.

Are there any kittens left?


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 11:46 am
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I was contemplating moving up to 10 speed at the end of the year. I was in conversation with a colleague at work about Shimano trickling down their 11speed next year and I should wait till then. Then I spied this...

dan.. if you look hard enough you'll see there's plenty of kittens left. The real question do we really need them. ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 12:22 pm
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It's not actually that much use is it? lots of sprockets but:

a combination of two Shimano Ultegra 11 speed cassettes

So no more gearing range than my old 1x9 speed MTB then?

It's not fully indexed, just a bodged, over shifted gripshifter:

At the front of the bike they modded a SRAM XX1 Gripshift to shift through 13 gears. The first 11 are indexed while gears 12 and 13 are friction.

So what does it prove exactly?

That clown bikes with their comical Dropout spacing can accommodate some extra Cogs.... Wow!

I could have bodged that it my garage...

Now a 13 speed 10-50t cassette that might have been impressive...


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 12:52 pm
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Got to agree with cookeaa pretty pointless if not increasing the range...


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 1:04 pm
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When will this end? ??


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 1:24 pm
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What about the new wheel size that Bart was talking about on the XCO world champs commentary. I want that


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 1:27 pm
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Come on chaps it's only a prototype. ๐Ÿ˜€ From acorns grow great oaks and all that.


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 2:00 pm
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At what point does it become more sensible to add a few extra chainrings at the front instead? Lowers unsprung weight and reduces wheel dish as well.


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 2:16 pm
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At what point does it become more sensible to add a few extra chainrings at the front instead? Lowers unsprung weight and reduces wheel dish as well.


Too many anti-triple chainring fashionistas about


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 4:50 pm
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At what point does it become more sensible to add a few extra chainrings at the front instead?

Once everyone has gone one by and they can sell you a triple as an upgrade rather than you simply retrieving it from your shed?


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 5:06 pm
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Isn't that going to mean an even greater wheel dish?


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 5:38 pm
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At some point isn't it just better to add a little electric motor for the bits you can cope with pedalling up?


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 5:57 pm
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Edit: can't!!!!


 
Posted : 11/09/2014 6:14 pm