On Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 5:42:17 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 4/16/2021 6:17 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

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Not good enough. Soon, the 22 speed corn cob will become the de facto
standard for excellence in cycling overkill.
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/#Corn%2520Cobb%2520Freewheel.jpg
To make a reasonably straight chain line with 22 gears, just stack up
two identical triple gear chain rings that cover 2 or 3 adjacent gears
on the freewheel. Shifting both front and rear derailleurs
simultaneously might require contortionist or a computer, but those
are easy enough to find. It might also be rather difficult to ride,
but that's easily forgiven by owner in trade for the cool looking
photo opportunities. Patents pending.

Soon everyone will be riding on 22 speed freewheels and cassettes.
This is really impractical in terms of wheel building.

I like the wide-range 12 speed cassettes but that's about the limit.

On my touring bike I paired a Garbaruk 12 cog 10-52 Cassette
https://www.garbaruk.com/12-speed-xd.html with an SRAM DD3 dual drive
hub https://lunacycle.com/sram-dd3-igh-3-speed-hub-with-shifter/ and
added a Mountain Tamer Quad 4th chainring
http://abundantadventures.com/quads.html#MOUNTAIN_TAMER_QUADTM_49.95,
then added a Schlumpf Mountain Drive
http://www.schlumpfdrive.com/index.php/mountain-drive.html.

It's nice having a selection of 288 different gear combinations though
because of overlap it's really only 123 actual different gear ratios.

The range between the lowest gear and the highest gear is amazing. The
lowest gear is so low that even at a cadence of 240 rpm you're not going
fast enough to stay upright. The highest gear is so high that it's only
usable when going downhill on grades of 12% or more at speeds of 80 mph
or greater.

It's kind of a pain dealing with four separate gear shifters but there
are some after-market wireless electronic shifters that I may add and
control them with a smart phone app. Then I'll put the bike up for sale
on eBay and when no one is willing to pay what I spent on these
improvements I'll complain about it here.

I was disappointed to learn that there is no 14 speed Rohloff SPEEDHUB
that can accept a cassette so my dream of 1,344 gear combinations was
thwarted.
Well at least we the comedic fools that love to post about things they know so little about. Except Jay, who feels the need to tout "modern" construction and components to use of them because he got them at cut rate prices through his son.