Touring/do-it-all bike gearing – advice please. – Page 2 – Bike Forum

RustySpanner · 2016-01-20T17:57:30Z

On a drop bar do it all tourer/commuter type bike. It's likely to be used loaded on hills quite frequently, possibly a bit of off road and I'm pretty slow. :-) . So, going the traditional route, I'd planned on going 26/36/48 with a an 11-36 10 speed MTB cassette. Not keen on brifters, so 10 speed Shimano road bar end shifters and a 9 speed MTB mech. You can get Microshift bar end shifters that index with MTB 10 speed mech (as per the stock Surly Disc Trucker build), but not aftermarket at the moment. I could go 2*10 and loose one gear off the bottom and a couple off the top, works out about the same price. I lose gears and I'm no more futureproofed, so probably not. Already discounted; Road triples and doubles - not enough really low gears. Rolhoff - cost. 11*2 - cost. Happy to switch when it's reached Deore level. :-) Anything obvious I've missed? All ideas welcome, thank you. Just used a simple MTB triple on the last do it all bike, but flat bar so a lot easier.

RustySpanner

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It's a present from my wife, so I'm trying to keep things half way sensible.
It WAS her idea, but still.
🙂

I'd love to try hub gears - you never know, Shimano might make a reliable 11+ speed hub one of these days.

And in all honesty, I'm not sure I could ever cope with spending £2000 (mostly of someone elses cash, in this case) on a bike.
😀

Posted : 06/02/2016 11:30 pm

antigee

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thanks to jameso for the useful links with good summaries there of what works with what
despite my warning a friend has just gone with a compact and 30 rear and will either have to mtfu or I'll be swopping rear mech and cassette I suspect

Posted : 07/02/2016 8:16 am

ampthill

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Very useful stuff James, thanks

Thanks, that prompted me to read them!

So thinking aloud. If I went and bought an Arkose and wanted lower gear I could

Buy last years Arkose 2 and fit an MTB double up front and add an MTB front mech and a bar end shifter on the left

Or if I bought this years Arkose 2 then I could put a road triple on the front. But change the inner for a 26 or 28 and and remove the outer. That way I could keep the left hand shifter and front mech? Would the spacing on the bottom bracket need changing? Can you buy 5 bolt inner chain ring in that size?

Posted : 07/02/2016 1:04 pm

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