Originally Posted by recursive
I have a 50-34 x 11-23, and pretty much all the gear combos are usable.
I guess we would need a definition of "useful". I am pretty intolerant of cross-chain noise so, while I can "use" the cross-chained gears, I would not consider them "useful" since they are so noisy and contribute to rapid component wear.
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