Originally Posted by jonwvara

Double shifts are one thing, but I draw the line at triple shifts. When I had my Dawes set up with a 3-cog cyclo block, AW hub and 48-32 chainrings in front, I had gears out the wazoo, but there were a fair number of duplicates and trying to remember the shift pattern was beyond me. That's why I set up this bike so almost everything happens on the big chainring--I only use the small one with one cog, and in one of the three hub gears. (Okay, that's a little bit of an exaggeration--I use it mostly in 1, but occasionally in 2 also.)