Originally Posted by waddo

The Sirrus is my wife's present bike. There are many things we don't like about it but the gearing is fine. We tour in very mountainous areas and we need easy granny gears.

The X Check is her new bike we we have ordered. Everything is better except the gearing is too high.

We can still get parts changed by the shop for free as it has not been delivered yet. So if I can decide what to do we only pay for parts. If I delay and change later we have to pay for labour also.

So now I am wondering about many options that I am only now starting to understand. I see for example there is a cassette that is 12-36t. but will it work on a x check? also I guess the gearshift thing would need replacing.

The more parts I change, obviously the more we pay. Plus I don't know much about the parts. That's my problem in a nutshell.