Originally Posted by
hamfoh
Scrod,
I was looking at Faz's Kagero and saw he's 53/15. Am I just a bitter @ss or does a ratio like that, for someone who doesn't get on the track, scream "trying too hard"? or is it just me?
I'm apparently a bitter @ss too. If the bike parts are nice, I go ahead and assume they did it for looks because they want a huge chainring. Even worse are the people that do 53/22 or some crazy huge cog to compensate. Unless of course you can tell the bike was cobbled together with whatever they had around. In which case two thumbs up! But usually it's someone who thinks big chainrings look cool, and they have no idea what a proper gear is. /bitter @ss.
Case example #1 (not my bike)
A perfectly reasonable drivetrain:
Same bike, after "improvements":
