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Anyone use a 11-26 dh 9 sp cassette for anything other than dh duties, it will be used with 3 rings up front,maybe more front cog changes other than that i cant see any real issues ,thoughts please.
What draws you to a 3x9 with a close spaced casette over 2x9 with a normal casette?
Just bought a new pair of wheels ,considered keeping old wheels as winter/backup set(11-32 cassette)just looking to buy new cassette and have seen a good deal on sram 9sp cassette,already have 3ring front (stock crankset),would ideally like to go,2x9 but finances dictate.just wondered if the closer ratio would make a massive difference.i do mainly local singletrack good mix of up and down hill.
Itd give closer spacing between gears if thats what you're after?
Im guessing you've seen a PG970 DH casette which is a 'solid-block', ie made up of seperate sprockets that go all the way to the freehub body rather than teh higher specced 'carrier' style casettes where a 'spider' carries the biggest 3,5,6 sprockets togther, making it a bit lighter and should dig into soft freehub bodies
On-one have PG980 (carrier over biggest 3) for £30 (from £70/75) in 11/32 and 11/34T atm if you're after a good deal on something with a fuller range? Likely lighter than a PG970 11-26? (certainly 11-34 PG970s are pretty heavy, ~150g more than a PG980)
Though tbh, I'd proabably just swap your current casette onto the new wheels, and swap back for winter? Much better to keep the chainrings, chain and casette together so they all wear evenly, rather than try to wear in a new casette with a half worn chain/chainrings? Only sticking new chainrings/chain/casette (together) on when the old set has worn out (lots of slipping)