Great article Andrew! I guess the one good thing with all these 'standards' is the higher likelihood of cobbling together a combination that vaguely works. It does seem like the wild west out there at the moment though.
We shouldn't assume 1x 142 was the holy grail of CL - those largely sucked too. I think think the smaller 36/40/42T sprockets likely smoothed things over considerably.
Shouldn't we be looking at chainlines optimized for middle-of-cassette assuming the bike is geared appropriately for the rider and terrain? Paying for wide range cassettes to then only use 2/3rds doesn't make much sense either
Jan. 10, 2022, 3:13 a.m. - Albert Steward
Great article Andrew! I guess the one good thing with all these 'standards' is the higher likelihood of cobbling together a combination that vaguely works. It does seem like the wild west out there at the moment though. We shouldn't assume 1x 142 was the holy grail of CL - those largely sucked too. I think think the smaller 36/40/42T sprockets likely smoothed things over considerably. Shouldn't we be looking at chainlines optimized for middle-of-cassette assuming the bike is geared appropriately for the rider and terrain? Paying for wide range cassettes to then only use 2/3rds doesn't make much sense either