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Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
[*]Using a compacts or triple should result in immediate suspension
Why is a conventional double with cogs ending in pie-plate sized mountain bike sprockets like a 28T OK but compact doubles and triples with bigger low gears like 34x23 or 30x21 are out?
Last edited by Drew Eckhardt; 08-11-11 at 06:25 PM.