Thread: Compact, half compact or harden up?
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Old 06-15-16 | 06:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Campag4life
50/34 and lack of gear redundancy is the price for having more climbing gears...
...and insisting on a double. A 50/39/30 triple maintains that close gearing and gets you better climbing gears than a compact.
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