Originally Posted by
Troul
Change the cassette or crank gearing is what I'd do. Fairly easy to do.
^This. Narrow the range between your front chainrings. You got great input above, where BF members did your homework for you. Use a gearing calculator to pictorially represent the gear ranges that you currently have and then ones that give you smaller increments around your "sweet spot". I agree that 32T is too much on the rear, and that the compact 50-34T is too large a jump on the front. Easiest thing is to change the outer front chain ring to something that is a better fit with your sweet spot preferred gear. Maybe down to a 44T or 46T or so. You'll need to use the calculator to see the changes. PG