Old 05-21-14, 06:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina
We recently went through this whole process when we developed our cassettes. We wanted to be able to supply a decent range of choices without offering everything under the sun combinations for the exact reason stated earlier: What sells.

There is a fixed qty we need to produce of each sku so if we weren't convinced we could sell enough of each sku to at least break even we dropped it.

Surprisingly enough, we ended up with ranges running from 11~23/11-25 to 12~25/12-28T for both 10spd and 11spd. This is just where the bread and butter of the market is (we do have a 10spd 12-29 but that's a big as it gets). Believe me, if we thought we could sell 13~30T to roadies we would have made some but our research showed that this would be a loss and I would be giving them away for Christmas as high end potato peelers.
Just for more discussion fodder, what ended up being the choices of chainring combos that would go with these cassettes. Nice website by the way.
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