How do you counteract or adjust for the aforementioned randomness? There is no way of knowing if you are close to the next engagement point or as far away as you can be, which is an element I have absent-mindedly recognized but never thought about enough. Your 15º hub could be all of that number or almost zero and everywhere in between, and this occurrence should be entirely random. Although at high speed as the chain winds up, as noted in Steve's video referenced in the article, you are more likely to be closer to the highest engagement point. I think.
Oddly, I regularly swap between wheels or bikes with vastly different engagement points and I have not been aware of any difference at all, either descending or climbing in technical situations. I'm not saying there is no discernible performance gap, but considering I'm in the low engagement camp generally, for the reasons you mention, you'd think I'd pick something up. I guess I need to pay more attention.
June 15, 2021, 11:03 p.m. - Cam McRae
How do you counteract or adjust for the aforementioned randomness? There is no way of knowing if you are close to the next engagement point or as far away as you can be, which is an element I have absent-mindedly recognized but never thought about enough. Your 15º hub could be all of that number or almost zero and everywhere in between, and this occurrence should be entirely random. Although at high speed as the chain winds up, as noted in Steve's video referenced in the article, you are more likely to be closer to the highest engagement point. I think. Oddly, I regularly swap between wheels or bikes with vastly different engagement points and I have not been aware of any difference at all, either descending or climbing in technical situations. I'm not saying there is no discernible performance gap, but considering I'm in the low engagement camp generally, for the reasons you mention, you'd think I'd pick something up. I guess I need to pay more attention.