Originally Posted by cyccommute

Less range is their major fault. Choose a good high gear or a good low gear…you can’t have both. A 10-52 cassette will give a 520% gear range. I have bikes with a 720% gear range which means I can ride with really low gears and still not spin out on the high end. I have one bike with an 800% gear range. That’s a 13” low and a 110” high. A 10-52 can have that low a gear but has a 72” high which means you coast over speeds of about 25 mph.

I don’t find the front derailer to be all that difficult to adjust nor maintain. Once set, there is very little need for adjustment. I’ll gladly trade a little weight and complexity so that I don’t have to coast.



Yes indeed.