Originally Posted by tomtomtom123

The highest gear 72.6" is only used a few minutes per ride, so it's not really a problem.

The 14" is also used only a few minutes when going up ramps. I haven't used it in hilly places but I would imagine 14" to be useful there.

My cogs are 12,13,14,15,17,19,21,24,28,34

So the second lowest is 17" with a 21.4% jump.
it's followed by 16.6% and 14.3%. The others are much smaller jumps except for going from 15 to 17 is 13.3%.

If I had 11 speed, I would try maybe adding 1 gear in between 15,16,18 to reduce the step a little because it's in the area where I spend my most time in while on the big chainring. But 11 speed cassettes I've never seen without a spider, so the last 3 i could find are 27,30,34, which may actually work.

I only use 12,13,14 while on the big chainring because the chain would start rubbing on the big chainring while in the small chainring, and in 12,13 the derailleur pulley is dragging from the max capacity.

Because I have 44/24 chainrings, I can only shift chainrings to 44 while pushing together on the right shifter to downshift to get the chain to rise at a higher angle to catch on the ramps of the big chainring. Maybe once every 15 times it will fail to catch so I just have to repeat it a second time.

Once I reach cog 28 on the big chainring, next I move to the small chainring and shift the rear 4 to 5 cogs to 15 or 17. I think the rapid fire trigger can move 5 cogs in one push