Originally Posted by
Bahnzo
What do you Passage owners think about the gearing? I'm kind of unimpressed with the 50/46/30 chainrings. Has anyone replaced them? I read
THIS article from a guy who has a Passage and was going to replace the gearing...but unfortunately it doesn't seem he finished it up.
My thought, is the 46t is plenty for me as the top, and the article talks about a 38t ring for the next one down. I did some measuring and it's a 110mm BCD, so would any 110mm/38t chain ring work, or are there other considerations?
My Voyageur had a slightly lower 50/44/28 set up and I didn't care for the half-step approach so I swapped out the middle and inner to make it 50/38/26 which I like a lot. Mine was Biopace and I was able to acquire the rings from a member on the forum. I also swapped out the freewheel for a Shimano 14-34 mega that gave me a good bail out gear for touring.