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10-18-25 | 07:46 PM

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Biker Pete

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Originally Posted by AdventureManCO

Be honest. How much do you use it? How useful is it? Mainly the doubles where the large chainring is 50+ teeth.

I've started looking at pictures of people riding their vintage bikes and the chain is on the smaller chainring 95%+ of the time. I hardly ever use it and am probably just going to remove it off all my cranksets.

Old thread I realize, but I’m the other way around. I ride in the flatlands of SW Florida and basically have no use for the small chainring. My two ‘go to’ bikes have 53 tooth large chainrings. The cassettes/freewheels all have one tooth increments.

Edit: And I would add that I spend the greatest amount of time riding in 53 front 16 rear, going one tooth in either direction on the rear cassette/freewheel depending on wind conditions.

Last edited by Biker Pete; 10-19-25 at 01:17 PM.

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