Originally Posted by
Mojo31
It's a grand conspiracy - businesses will do most anything to part you from your money, even come up with new product ideas. Bastids.
Then the old curmudgeons conspire to not buy any new products, but always live in the past.
Not so. I went along with more gears until they got to 24 or 27. That number was logical and could let a cyclist go most anywhere. After that the ever increasing number of gears were hype and over kill. Now they are back to 12 with a huge heavy cassette, that is not logical at all. Wasnt it in the late 70s when we got 12 speeds. Now the MFG would have us believe what was old is new all over again. What about all the the real cyclist that said every shift should only be a few gear inches to be efficient.
Us people that you call curmudgeons, have had a life time of experience, and have sorted out logical from what high pressure sales types tell us we should buy.