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01-30-13 | 06:14 PM

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ClemY

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Bikes: Hollands Touring Bike, Schwinn mountain bike, folding bike, tandem and triple

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Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver

I have an LX compact road triple that will accommodate a 20 tooth granny... with the availability of cassettes with a 36 tooth low I could get down to 14 gear inches on my touring bike if I decided to install that.

If the OP replaces her crank with the 22/32/44 and uses the stock cassette the low will be 17.5... most would find that to be a low enough gearing.

I agree. I got the 20 tooth crank before I converted my bike to 9 spd. With a 12-32 the 20 was great. With 12-36 it is a bit of overkill.

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