Originally Posted by Machka
I went with a cassette like that on the first bicycle I used for randonneuring. It was perfect ... I had no problem at all with it ............
........... for all my very flat Manitoba brevets.
The moment I got into the mountains to do my very first 1200K (the RM1200), I realized I had the WRONG gearing! Everyone else was casually spinning up the climbs like they were nothing, and I was walking everything in sight because I couldn't turn the pedals anymore.
My current cassette is 11-34. That's much better, but even so, I'm going to go lower on the chainring now too.
Are you running a road crankset with smaller chainrings or a mountain crankset? Just curious what works for you. I appreciate the info - as I said, I really don't have any experience with loaded...other than grocery shopping.