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Basically, [s]if you live where it's flat, keep the triple.If you live in the hills and ride stuff that catches your big ring (missus) then go 22/36/bash.
If you have big legs and live where it's not uber-hilly, then go single.[/s] it's completely personal
Nope, that's everything covered 🙂
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Which setup for hunting down power rangers?
rigid ss or fixed 🙄Which setup for hunting down power rangers?
24/36
Shorter mech and chain.All neat and tidy and out of the way. All the gears I need. (I can say with absolute certainty I will never spin out 36/11 off road. Dont care about on road- it is a mountain bike)
Triples look crap as well
Which setup for hunting down power rangers?
Pretty much anything, just bide your time 'til the going gets tough.
ah yes i see whats being said now, phew!
I wonder how many 3 ring die-hards are closet or former roadies?
I notice that a lot of my non serious bikey mates newer bikes have 2x10, must be alright for the punters then.
I'd certainly consider 2x10 if I was buying new and needed everything. But I do use all three rings, middle mostly. Outer at races and my inner on big old non technical slippery climbs where I need to sit, this years snow and ice saw me use it a fair bit.
All that said I only use three or four cogs on the back, dunno how common that is.
I can't be bothered reading everything, but this..
Its just not worth spending more money to lose 1 ring.
I bought a brand new XT chainset for £120ish. Sold the chainrings and bolts for £75ish. Bought two new chainrings and bolts for £40ish. And I don't have to replace the middle ring constantly, as everything wears at the same rate, etc. etc.
27/42 set up as I never used the granny. I spent a winter on a 32:16 and decided that if it was possible on the ss I could easily bin the granny.
I might have a go with a 40T to see how that goes.
Chortle...
We were doing the 2 ring thing in the 1990s, we used to go out and challenge one another not to use the granny ring, which led to some of us taking them off, using the big and middle rings only.
Given the choice now I'd go for a cross compact set up; 46 34 and a reasonable spread at the back.
don simon, strangely I spent a good decade on 32x16 (my ss was the most expensive frame I've ever owned) at the time everyone raved on about they're winter goodness, but I could never finesse it up the claggy boggy clay and chalk ridden climbs local to me during the winter? Low pressure, bum in the saddle twiddling is often the only way.
I had a short spell with the middleburn Duo some years back, that was dreadfull, especially the changes.
Having the 44 outer ring means you are duty bound to try and find a stretch of concrete/grassland or clean trail to crank it out to 30 or more on the flat and maybe 40 down a hill. The fact that this might only be every now and then is a bonus and a bogus. In the ideal world I can see value in having two or three bikes with various combos i.e. 1 x 9, 2 x 9, and 3 x 9...
**** 10 speed.
The 2 ring SLX chainset i bought from CRC was £80 including the cranks and bottom bracket....i was going to upgrade from the Alivio set-up the bike came with anyway and when this came along at the price it did then it made my decision to go 2x10 much easier.
Like others here i have never used the 44 tooth big cog off road, so why have it?....it would get used when i covered some road miles but since getting a road bike this no longer happens...the mountain bike either gets ridden from my house directly off road (lucky to live in the Surrey Hills) or it gets put in the car and taken to where i want to ride off road....no more road miles so for me no more large chainring up front either.
The 22/36 rings with an 11-36 cassette seems to allow feeble old me to get up most things, even if it would be quicker walking.
but I could never finesse it up the claggy boggy clay and chalk ridden climbs local to me during the winter
As long as this wasn't too great a prtion of the route, I don't see the problem. There were sections for me that I'd either walk or ride depending on my mood.
I must get another one built up, I should have enough parts.