IanSmithCSE
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- Worcester, Worcestershire
Good morning,
Those of you who don't buy into experimenting with cadence are missing out on a lot fun.
Over the last year or so every so often I will change my chainrings to simulate a 1x and it is quite noticeable how the ride changes, this morning I went out on a well known route with a 38x11-25 (8spd) and no big ring.
It was a quite weird ride in comparison to my normal 42/52 rings as I was forever in the "wrong" gear, and as lot of the small "ups" where I might have changed down a gear seemed to disappear it felt like different roads.
Yet I definitely felt faster on some up-hills as 52x21 is for wimps, that's a big sprocket but 38x15 is not,
but I really struggled on some down-hills as I am not happy much over 90rpm and prefer around 85rpm so I reckon that I lost 3-4mph and even if that number is wrong it felt a lot slower.
But I did find that 38x13 was a better fit for a lot of the ride as a select and forget gear, than either 52x19 or 52x17.
I am more convinced than ever that if I do buy a 1x road bike it would be a 10sp/11sp as the holes are noticeable and it would nag knowing that I could have filled them.
Bye
Ian
Those of you who don't buy into experimenting with cadence are missing out on a lot fun.
Over the last year or so every so often I will change my chainrings to simulate a 1x and it is quite noticeable how the ride changes, this morning I went out on a well known route with a 38x11-25 (8spd) and no big ring.
It was a quite weird ride in comparison to my normal 42/52 rings as I was forever in the "wrong" gear, and as lot of the small "ups" where I might have changed down a gear seemed to disappear it felt like different roads.
Yet I definitely felt faster on some up-hills as 52x21 is for wimps, that's a big sprocket but 38x15 is not,
but I really struggled on some down-hills as I am not happy much over 90rpm and prefer around 85rpm so I reckon that I lost 3-4mph and even if that number is wrong it felt a lot slower.
But I did find that 38x13 was a better fit for a lot of the ride as a select and forget gear, than either 52x19 or 52x17.
I am more convinced than ever that if I do buy a 1x road bike it would be a 10sp/11sp as the holes are noticeable and it would nag knowing that I could have filled them.
Bye
Ian
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