Originally Posted by
joejack951
Range has something to do with it. How many guys would be running an 11-28 or 11-32 on the road if it weren't for 11 speed cassettes? I tried an 11-32 9 speed on the road a few years ago and hated it. With 11 speed, I can have virtually the same spacing as my current 12-27 9 speed cassette but get those two lower gears as well.
Yeah, OK, but the advantage of the 10 or 11 speed isn't that you can have a bigger range, it is that the close ratios mean you can have the big range without the crappy spacing. We're making the same point.