wrote:
On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 8:01:23 PM UTC+2, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2020 11:53:41 UTC-4, AMuzi wrote:
https://bikerumor.com/2018/06/23/com...nx-gx-x01-xx1/

For those who fondly recall 13~17 freewheels, there's a new
10~50 cassette!
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

How does the weight of that 10-50 cassette compare to a three allow
chainrings and a 7-speed or 8-speed steel cassette of 14-32?

Weight isn't the reason to come up with this kind of stuff. Get rid of the FD is.


Lou


Indeed this was driven by MTBers modifying their bikes, so companies
followed SRAM in particular.

My old MTB which was 3-9 I switched over to 1-9 few years back.

Makes for a simpler system for the commute and with a chain catcher much
less hassle.

For that bike it works well even with kit that’s not intended, ie not a
wide/narrow chainring hence the chain catcher.

Roger Merriman