Nick1979
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gbb said:Changing the 34 for a 40T made the bike perfect in my case. Best thing i did...all it cost was £15.
So you have a 50/40 now?
gbb said:Changing the 34 for a 40T made the bike perfect in my case. Best thing i did...all it cost was £15.
John the Monkey said:A "standard" road setup might be a 52T big ring with a 42T small ring. Manufacturers reckoned that this had too much top and not enough bottom, so the compact has something like 50T big and 39T small.
The idea is that most mere mortals gain more from that because more lower gears is more useful than more big gears.
I ride a compact triple (because that's what came on the Giant) which is 50T/39T/30T. I don't like it as much as I liked my old bike's 52T/42T, personally, but if I'm completely honest that's more because I tend to be on the big ring as soon as I've moved off, whereas on the old bike I got at least some use out of the middle ring. Also, with the 30T inner ring, and living in Cheshire, I reckon more big gears would be more useful
Nick1979 said:So you have a 50/40 now?