Hey, that's the good thing about this place in general, people can agree to disagree without getting but hurt :-) Wasn't meaning any offense with the moron comment, just never understood how it was so hard for people to use the FD and be in the right ring in tandem with where they were in the cassette to not cross chain etc., never got that.
Maybe I'm a weakling, but I wasn't thinking anywhere even close to a 48t ring, I'd set it up just like my Monkey is setup for commuting 28/38 rings and an 11-36 cassette, all the gear range you could want for anything true off road, except for seriously long flat roads, once you're not a racer/racing and even then if you've got the fitness, still doable. When I was younger, fitter and not injured, I ran 34/46 rings on it.
On the drop bars, I notice that on your personal bike you have true off road drops, and those I think I might be able to give a go, the ones on this review bike seemed to just be your avg road drop.
Here is the Monkey in "Gravel" mode
Here is it in "Roadie" mode.
March 22, 2022, 8:26 a.m. - Lynx .
Hey, that's the good thing about this place in general, people can agree to disagree without getting but hurt :-) Wasn't meaning any offense with the moron comment, just never understood how it was so hard for people to use the FD and be in the right ring in tandem with where they were in the cassette to not cross chain etc., never got that. Maybe I'm a weakling, but I wasn't thinking anywhere even close to a 48t ring, I'd set it up just like my Monkey is setup for commuting 28/38 rings and an 11-36 cassette, all the gear range you could want for anything true off road, except for seriously long flat roads, once you're not a racer/racing and even then if you've got the fitness, still doable. When I was younger, fitter and not injured, I ran 34/46 rings on it. On the drop bars, I notice that on your personal bike you have true off road drops, and those I think I might be able to give a go, the ones on this review bike seemed to just be your avg road drop. Here is the Monkey in "Gravel" mode Here is it in "Roadie" mode. 