Originally Posted by
Basil Moss
Oh well, I managed to get someone angry at me...
Where do you see anger? I was
confused.
Originally Posted by
Basil Moss
Where are all the people who evangelise about compact cranksets?
Mostly in your imagination. People get defensive about their compact cranks
when challenged (e.g. "anyone should be able to ride a standard crank"), but I don't usually see people going out of their way to say the opposite, that everybody should be using compact cranks. Compacts are useful when a lower range of gearing is appropriate, either for the rider and/or the terrain. For example, maybe strong people that normally ride a standard crank chose to ride a compact at
Everest Challenge. I used to use a compact but switched to a standard as my strength increased, and to help train increased strength.
Originally Posted by
Basil Moss
Anyway, glad to hear that 42 tooth is acceptable, awesome riding the alps on one! It seems enough gears to me, just short rolling hills around here.
Obviously they are acceptable or they would not exist. Things do not need to be blessed by the BF brain trust to be acceptable. BF is far removed from reality.