Originally Posted by
countrydirt
.....My drinking buddy bike mechanic just wants to talk about changing to a 1X front...
....As far as I can tell, the 520 has the stock front crank and rear cluster right now.
your drinking buddy won't be the one painfully dragging a bike uphill!
figger out what you have now, plug it into a gear calculator.
what do you have now?
fiddle around to get lower lows and lower highs.
(you're not likely to complain about not having a high enough high gear)
plenty of parts available on ebay.
any mechanic at any shop can switch chainrings and cassettes.