+1. See, e.g., 1x drivetrains. Was reading an article in ACA's magazine earlier this year. A guy from SRAM enlightened me to the fact that triples are terrible for touring since you only spend time in a few gears and rarely, if ever, use your middle ring. After 15,000+ miles of loaded touring I was embarrassed to learn I have been doing it wrong all this time. Did I mention that the article featured SRAM's new 1x11 drivetrain?


Another growing fad is people haunting this forum and starting threads about touring "theory" and the like without providing any evidence that they actually tour.