Originally Posted by
Scarbo
Thank you.
I am curious--what size middle and outer chainring sizes would you prefer? What I have on there now (28-44-48) yields roughly between 23 and 99 gear inches with my current setup (35mm tires). I have been considering possibly getting a smaller middle ring as well, but I do like my bigger gearing in the big chainring.
I run 46T big (well sort of, just say outer position) rings on most of my bikes, independent of ring count. A 46/11 is still too big a gear for all but a few downhills, and those are faster in a deep tuck anyways. My middle rings (on triples) are usually a 36T. But I spin and spend a lot of time in the 12 tp 18mph range.
I moved on from half step gearing a long time ago. Although did use it for many years too. Andy