Originally Posted by
Dan333SP
Don't you live in an area where you never need to shift out of the big ring on the front?
I honestly have no idea what the geography is like on LI, just assumed it's mostly flat.
There's hills, i can do 30 miles and 2500' of climbing. I'm not a great climber so shifting the FD can happen many times on a ride.
BTW... I also have a CX bike with Rival 1 and it's great also.