Originally Posted by Litespud

that’s an 18% increase from the 13 to the 11 - that’s a big jump at that end of the cassette. Maybe if you saved it for special occasions, like suddenly finding yourself drafting on a long downhill, but personally I would find a jump that big to be too disruptive for normal riding - it would throw my cadence off completely, with the result that I’d hardly ever use it. I’d rather a 12 that I might (and do) use regularly than an 11 that gets very little use. YMMV, of course