View Single Post
Old 01-10-11 | 05:03 PM
  #34  
Drew Eckhardt's Avatar
Drew Eckhardt
Senior Member
 
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 6,341
Likes: 326
From: Mountain View, CA USA and Golden, CO USA

Bikes: 97 Litespeed, 50-39-30x13-26 10 cogs, Campagnolo Ultrashift, retroreflective rims on SON28/PowerTap hubs

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.
Drew Eckhardt is offline  
Reply