On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 4:19:19 PM UTC+1, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 2:04:34 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 5:52:08 AM UTC+1, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 5:35:48 PM UTC-5, AMuzi wrote:
We usually advise 'follow manufacturer's directions' but in
this case a clever exception shows some promise:

https://bikerumor.com/2020/02/07/how...ullet-gearing/

So that's instead of just having two chainrings? Um... why?

- Frank Krygowski

Why? To get rid of the FD and front shifter and avoiding to shift front and back in critical race situations. Some people think they can benefit from it.

They have been hypnotized by clever marketing -- although 1X has clearly trickled-down too far with some low-end 1X gravel bikes that will see very little gravel riding. They will just be road bikes with big steps between gears and a ridiculously low-low. My gravel bike gets ridden on a lot of road before I get to the gravel, and I like having two rings and a road-ish gear range with a moderately low low-gear.

-- Jay Beattie.

I can image 1X11 for my aeroad. On that bike I'm never in the small chainring (36T) here on the flats and that bike never sees any serious mountains. For a gravel bike 1x11 seems a poor choice in my opinion. My gravel bike will have a normal 50-34T compact road crankset and I declined the suggested 11-34T cassette. I will put a 14-28T (14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-23-25-28 t) cassette on it. I hate big jumps so this is is a great gearing for me around here. If I plan to go wall climbing I will put a 11-34 cassette on and live with the big jumps and the never used 11-12t sprockets.

Lou