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Old 01-29-07, 11:58 AM
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The Great Stonk
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personally, although my example is on a full sus trail bike, i run a medium cage, with an 11-32 cassette and the typical tripple front setup, and if i use granny rin gup front i can only drop as low as 5th on the back before the chain goes slack, i have it like this on purpose, mainly to get more chain wrap in the other gear combo's, and because if i need to go down as far as 5th when in the granny ring i should have already changed up into the middle ring on the front...

this gives me enough room for suspension growth when im using big ring to relativly big (4th and upwards) on the back.

i should use a long cage i suppose, but i get alot less chain slap with a medium, and i only loose the gears im not supposed to use anyways...

in your case id probably go medium cage, and simply not use the extream small-small and large-large gear combo's
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