Originally Posted by
Carbon Unit
... Or, I could just replace the cassette on my triple to a 12-25 or 11-25 and I wouldn't spin out in the middle chain ring.
For those of you that have gone from the triple to the compact, do you miss the triple at all?
That would be my inclination, if you wanted to reduce front DR shifting. I have a triple with 12-28 which I seldom shifted, so I did away with it on my other bike with 11-30, with only a 44 in front. If you don't mind big gaps between gears. Adding a second ring, 26 or 30, whatever, there still wouldn't be much shifting except on big hills. maybe once at stops, and that's it.