Originally Posted by
SJX426
Fully agree! A 144 52t is on its way and the 14-25 should be here today. With that, a 42/25 will be an improvement without a significant degradation of shifting with the NR RD.
42/25 is still WAAAAY too tall for me to get up the hills around here

I am well glad, my 50/34 -. 11/34 gives me a 1:1 ratio when i need to spin up that hill. I've only ever come to enjoy riding, since those ratios have become available (w/o a MTB triple).
But that's beside the point

Hope your new Chainrings work out the way they should!