Originally Posted by
Steve B.
This has never been rocket science. You get onto a long climb, you go to the granny when you run out of momentum in the middle ring. You work your way up the cogs as the grade increases, you don’t for a minute think that perhaps the gear you are in is also available somewhere in the middle ring. You stay in the granny and grind it out, when the grade eases and you get down near the small cog in the granny, you shift the rear up a bunch and then go to the middle ring. You don’t ponder the exact shift, I don’t have DI2 in my head.
Agreed. Triples with ~10-tooth differences are a bit annoying compared to a half-step-plus-granny, which gives beautifully smooth shifts as well as small jumps between the larger rings that remind me of those long-ago days when I used straight-block freewheels for criterium racing.
But 50/40/30 or whatever is nothing like as annoying as the goofy plunge of 2x 50/36 or 50/34 (or, regrettably, the Campy 53/34 I bought on stupid-cheap closeout). I don't know how you people can stand those. No wonder 1x is taking over.