Originally Posted by
Bekologist
that cassette will come in handy for people wanting to set up a 10 speed shimano equipped road bike with mountain gearing.
XX 11-32 10 speed cassette on a shimano 10 speed drivetrain with a long cage road derailleur might do the trick, otherwise switch to a shadow XTR would do it just fine I'd bet.
I have a 12-30 10-speed cassette from IRD on my 50/34 compact crankified road bike using an XTR Shadow. It works but the rear shifting tends to hang in the second and third lowest gear which is somewhat annoying. So, of course, I am now intrigued by the possibility that SRAM might do better.
BTW, the ratio of 1.5 that SRAM is using on these XX front rings is very large so that a switch from the big front ring to the small will also entail a lot of corresponding gear changing on the rear. 'Course, with such a wide range on the rear this might not happen very often.