Originally Posted by motorapido

Well, then, other than the occasional convenience of using a single front shift to equate to two or three cog shifts, why the heck don't we all go 1x11? Let's all admit it. No matter how well we set up our FD, nine times out of ten, a problem shift is a front shift. I have one of those Fredly anti-chain-drop gizmos up front that I love for preventing dropped downshifts, but despite my best efforts, it is not terribly uncommon for an adjustment to become a little discombobulated and cause me to drop the chain on an upshift to the big ring. It happens. Rarely. But it happens. And when it does, it is a royal pain.