Thread: 5-SPEED FW's: Who is still riding 10-speed?
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Old 08-21-22, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Trakhak
Some Italian cycling manual (might be the CONI/Cinelli book, can't remember) had a diagram instructing the neophyte racer on the proper use of the modern (straight-block/corncob) 4-sprocket freewheel: "big" (49 or so) ring with the outer two sprockets, "small" (46 or so) ring with the inner two sprockets.
So if I am getting this right, the neophyte's cadence on the flats and in gentle descents must be over 120? ... uh ... even with 12T as the smallest on the cob. Or, did they come smaller?
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