Originally Posted by
Banzai
What do the BF masses now consider acceptable for gaps in this new drivetrain age? And yes, I realize that rider preference and riding conditions are widely varied, but we have a forum just to field these kinds of obscure discussions.
I'm not a big fan of pie plate cassettes either, but have you actually looked at the gear ratio steps? When you have 11 sprockets to play with you can have fairly close ratios AND low gears:
11-32: 11,12,13,14,15,17,19,22,25,28,32
That's essentially a very close ratio 8 speed followed by 3 more cogs going all the way to a rather low 32.