Agreed - as much as I hear amazing things about shifting performance on Shimano cassettes, the honest answer is that I spend around a third of my time in the extreme two gears, because having that much range is just massive, more so than most any other performance aspect of the drivetrain... the fact that it's half a pound lighter is similarly mindblowing, and I've actually gotten pretty excellent lifetime out of my aluminium big cogs.
Oct. 13, 2021, 5:51 a.m. - Tehllama42
Agreed - as much as I hear amazing things about shifting performance on Shimano cassettes, the honest answer is that I spend around a third of my time in the extreme two gears, because having that much range is just massive, more so than most any other performance aspect of the drivetrain... the fact that it's half a pound lighter is similarly mindblowing, and I've actually gotten pretty excellent lifetime out of my aluminium big cogs.