Originally Posted by Hazelmn
I'm looking at upgrading one of my road bikes to a triple chain ring. Before I did this, I just wanted to see if there was any possible reason not to do this. I think I could use the extra gearing on hills, and it just seems like a no-brainer to me.
Let me know if you think otherwise.
Yes, all of the negatives from the strong, young and knee-worthy types.
Go for it if you have hills, sore or damaged knees or don't want to damage your knees - no matter how much training, that knee is located between the pedal and any strong thigh you can develop. Ease off and keep pedaling for decades.
But there might be other upgrades that are necessary to get chain alignment and derailleurs, etc to mesh with a new setup.
And no COMPACT setup will match a triple.
As you may note, I have no strong opinion on this subject....
