Originally Posted by
Banzai
Not talking about gear range here. We're talking about the gaps, and how people are achieving the ranges of double and triple cranks with massive gaps in the cassette.
Specifically, about the fact that gaps like that were once frowned upon, but now people are running pie-plate sized rear cogs everywhere.
The gaps have been cited, on multiple occasions, as a drawback in the Alfine 8. Yet, here we are with cassettes.
But you don't have to have gaps - they only occur when you have the most extreme gearing range. Which is how it always has been.
If you were to make apple to apple comparisons your outrage would likely subside.