Originally Posted by Lazyass

It's stupid. I hate compact cranks. No, most people won't "spin out" a 50T but that's not the issue. The issue for people like me is having to shift between the big and small rings 10x as often. If they had a 50/39 or even a 50/36 then that would be fine. The perfect combo would be something like the Tiagra 50/39/30, but of course the industry has killed the triple for the higher end groups.