Originally Posted by
cocoabeachcrab
if you are referring to moi, i get it. i'm not technical shifter, and will probably use the big chainring with the outer freewheel cogs, and inner ring with the low gears. never the bigs shall meet, resulting in the end of all life on earth.
afterthought.. i take the advice about going big/big being dangerous and damaging very seriously.
on a double, it's probably easy to make a big on big mistake with the short cage set up we're debating, but i tend to use triple chainsets due to the geography and am not in the habit of big on big use. otoh, i've toyed with the idea of exceeding capacity with a short cage myself. then i realized the short cage becomes a limiting factor in being able to use all range of gearing. given that, it doesn't make much sense.... regardless if the johnny knoxville style risk i'd be willing to take