DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
As i slob around other people's houses getting my shoulder back in shape, thoughts naturally turn to getting out on the bikes.
The plan has always been to sell the Scott 209 roadie and keep the two steel MTBs, with big slicks on, for comfort and vibration damping.
But, but...if the braze-on fd on the Scott will adjust down to a 48-38-28 chainset...and how low can I go on pressures, realistically?
Changing the chainset would give me almost identical gearing to the MTBs, bar the difference in wheel size, on a 10lb lighter bike, but running 25mm tyres makes it harsher on the rider's decrepit frame.
Decisions, decisions...
I can definitely only keep two of the three bikes beyond the shortish term, so there's more to this than just fiddling for fiddlings' sake...
The plan has always been to sell the Scott 209 roadie and keep the two steel MTBs, with big slicks on, for comfort and vibration damping.
But, but...if the braze-on fd on the Scott will adjust down to a 48-38-28 chainset...and how low can I go on pressures, realistically?
Changing the chainset would give me almost identical gearing to the MTBs, bar the difference in wheel size, on a 10lb lighter bike, but running 25mm tyres makes it harsher on the rider's decrepit frame.
Decisions, decisions...
I can definitely only keep two of the three bikes beyond the shortish term, so there's more to this than just fiddling for fiddlings' sake...