Originally Posted by
PeteHski
It's mountain bike gearing and it makes sense for...... mountain biking. My full-suss mtb has a 30T chainring and 10-50T cassette and it's definitely not stupid.
OP did not say he was on an Mtb.
He listed the 1X gears. I was responding to that.
Ever wonder why TdF TT racers mount 58 ring and 13 or 14 cog instead of 43 and 10 cog
There is a thread over on Paceline right now about 1X and pretty much anyone using 1X on the road hates it.