Road Cassette on an MTB
05-07-10, 06:16 PM
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Road Cassette on an MTB
Who here uses a road cassette on an MTB?
In my thread about "losing bike weight", it made me think and consider switching the cassette to road gearing. I rarely even use the rear granny gears, so why not have a better shifting ratio + further weight reduction.
In my thread about "losing bike weight", it made me think and consider switching the cassette to road gearing. I rarely even use the rear granny gears, so why not have a better shifting ratio + further weight reduction.
05-07-10, 06:35 PM
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They're just cassettes. Use whatever cogsets work for you. For my mountain bikes I like 12-34s generally paired with 22/32/44 rings. My road bike 12-27 (39/53 up front) works well.
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You'd still have about 26 extra gears.
